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The tiny U.S. government division charged with assessing the safety of new artificial intelligence offerings doesnt have a permanent leader and has stopped publishing its research

Melania Trump is set to travel to Louisiana to announce a partnership with Louisiana State University to provide scholarships for students who were once in foster care

Teslas Cybertruck, the hulking, stainless-steel pickup that inspired devotion and derision with its science-fiction looks, will cease production next year

The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Pena has formed in the Pacific Ocean

Residents are cleaning up from catastrophic flooding along the Tennessee-Georgia border that forecasters are calling a once-in-a-1,000 year event

The father of the co-pilot who died along with eight others when her Learjet crashed in Florida feels immense pride when he listens to his daughters heartbreaking final radio transmissions to try to figure out why it plunged from the sky

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has met with nonprofits in Puerto Rico as officials announced a $280,000 partnership to help the U.S. territory confront emergencies

Former NFL star Antonio Brown has pleaded guilty to aggravated assault with a firearm in connection with a 2025 shooting in Miami

Pope Leo XIV is kicking off a three-nation tour of Latin America with a visit to Uruguay

Two iconic rock formations that long attracted tourists and photographers to a remote part of New Mexico have collapsed

Closing arguments are set to begin in the case of a former Massachusetts police officer accused of killing a pregnant woman to keep her from revealing they had an illicit sexual relationship when she was 15

Pope Leo XIV is returning home to the continent where he spent two decades as a missionary priest and learned to be a pastor, visiting Uruguay, Argentina and his second homeland of Peru

Matthew Martinez has lived nearly all his 60 years on a piece of property on the Navajo River and never saw severe flooding until now

Four men named in a former Cornell University students lawsuit are joining a co-defendants effort to block New Yorks attorney general from leading a reopened criminal investigation into the womans gang rape allegations

Catcher Bo Naylor, a former teammate of Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz, says he didnt know gamblers could place bets on individual pitches until the criminal case against the pitchers arose

Salon is shutting down after 31 years

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said hell change all death sentences in the state to life in prison without the possibility of parole

Authorities say a female postal employee shot two colleagues at the main post office in Iowas capital city before being captured nearby

Like so much American imagery, mesas lurk in our collective American unconscious from frequent appearances in films and television

Paraguay President Santiago Pea resigns following bank collapse

Lady Gaga, Shakira, Pink, Boy George, Jack White, Sia, Vince Gill, Ne-Yo, Blondies Debbie Harry and Chris Stein are among the impressive list of nominees for the 2027 Songwriters Hall of Fame class

Thunderstorms with heavy rain have caused record flooding in two towns straddling the Georgia-Tennessee border

Danish comedian Rasmus Wallbridge spent four months thinking he was making a feature film with his creative partner

A fire in a two-story home in New York has killed six people and injured seven others

Bank of England raises main interest rate a quarter point to 4% as Iran war stokes inflation

Shares are mixed in Asia as heavy selling of AI-related stocks offset gains for some markets following the U.S. midterm elections

Authorities are still trying to piece together how a convicted murderer in Tennessee evaded capture for more than a week

Florida, Indiana and Alabama are scheduled to carry out executions Thursday

3M has agreed to pay up to $7.35 billion to settle lawsuits over groundwater contamination from potentially harmful chemicals in firefighting foam and other products

Herbert Blomstedt, a renowned conductor who led the San Francisco Symphony from 1985 to 1995, has died at the age of 99

Emergency crews responded to an explosion at a chemical plant in Mississippi that sent a large plume of black smoke into the air

The WNBA Finals was the most watched since 1999 with an average of 1.88 million people viewing the seven-game series that Golden State won over Atlanta in a decisive Game 7

French authorities have reported a cyberattack on several blood banks that attempted to raise temperatures to dangerous levels

People prone to seasonal depression are bracing themselves as winter approaches

Authorities say the two Colorado college students whose bodies were recovered last week died when an anchor they were using to climb failed and they fell a substantial distance.

Students using Google software in schools will not be allowed to use Google search unless their school system also provides them access to artificial intelligence tools

Massive flooding in the southwestern U.S. has turned communities into lakes of mud, with residents starting cleanup efforts

Tony Butala, co-founder of the Grammy-nominated trio The Lettermen, has died at age 87

Kenya has released five Ebola patients after they tested negative for the virus and showed no symptoms

A rebound for several influential Big Tech stocks is helping to lift the U.S. market despite a fall for Apple and mixed trading elsewhere on Wall Street

Arizona Cardinals left tackle Jayden Williams is among a growing number of NFL players who have worn Guardian Caps during games

Jurors have started deliberating in Russell Brand's trial on charges of rape and sexual assault

The Supreme Court is hearing a case involving Catholic preschools challenging their exclusion from a Colorado state-funded program

Every August, monarch butterflies east of the Rocky Mountains begin their migration from southern Canada and the northern United States to central Mexico to hibernate

A judge has complicated President Donald Trumps efforts to plow forward on construction of a memorial arch, setting multiple notification deadlines before any work can begin

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Harvard University over its alleged failure to provide admissions records that the Justice Department demanded to ensure the Ivy League school stopped using affirmative action in admissions

Indianas governor turned down a clemency request and says an execution planned for Thursday will go forward against a man who killed his girlfriends two children in 2010

A person in Washington state has died from complications of bird flu, marking the first such U.S. death in a year

A chaotic climate phenomenon called El Nio is intensifying heavy rains and floods in the Southwest

Eleven years after the Aliso Canyon gas blowout in the Los Angeles area, millions of dollars are becoming available to those affected