A Pennsylvania school district’s decision to remove a song from a recent student choral concert has divided the community and spurred a review…
The United Auto Workers union faces the latest test of its ambitious plan to unionize auto plants in the historically nonunion South when a vo…
A Missouri inmate who is weeks away from execution is in a hospital after suffering what a Missouri Department of Corrections spokeswoman desc…
New York’s first-in-the-nation plan to levy a hefty toll on drivers entering Manhattan is the focus of a legal battle playing out in federal c…
Tick season is starting across the U.S., and experts are warning the bloodsuckers may be as plentiful as ever. That's because of a another mil…
The Rev. Brandon Thomas Crowley had always loved the Black Church, and developed an ambition in his youth to become a pastor even as he realiz…
A funeral will be held for a Black U.S. Air Force senior airman who was shot and killed in his Florida home by a sheriff’s deputy. Friday's fu…
The man convicted of attempting to kidnap then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and attacking her husband with a hammer is set to be sentenced in fe…
Seventy years after the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education ruling, the impact of the decision is still up for debate. Have Americans …
Severe thunderstorms have blown out windows in high-rise buildings, downed trees and knocked out power to nearly 900,000 customers in the Hous…
A suburban Seattle police officer ignored his training and unnecessarily resorted to deadly force when he shot and killed a man outside a conv…
The Environmental Protection Agency watchdog said the agency distributed about $3 billion to states last year to replace harmful lead pipes ba…
Pentagon officials are cautiously optimistic that an overall decline in reported sexual assaults among active-duty service members and the mil…
The U.S. Coast Guard says early estimates show a barge collision in Galveston, Texas, may have spilled up to 2,000 gallons of oil in surroundi…
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Teen who ate spicy tortilla chip died of high chile consumption and had a heart defect, autopsy says
An autopsy of a Massachusetts teen who died after participating in a spicy tortilla chip challenge says his death was caused by eating a large…
Texas board recommends pardon for ex-Army sergeant convicted of killing Black Lives Matter protester
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has recommended a full pardon for a former U.S. Army sergeant convicted of murder for fatally shooting …
Scientists say temperatures that have gone “crazy haywire” hot, especially in the Atlantic, are close to making the current global coral bleac…
President Joe Biden has marked the 70th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that struck down institutionalized racial segregation in pub…
Police records show that officers responded nearly 1,000 times in the past three years to an Iowa juvenile treatment center where a staff memb…
Justice Department formally moves to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug in historic shift
The Justice Department has formally moved to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug in a historic shift in generations of U.S. drug pol…
A lawyer for the family of Roger Fortson says the bodycam footage of the Florida sheriff’s deputy who killed the Air Force airman and police r…
Sen. Bob Menendez reveals his wife has breast cancer as presentation of evidence begins at his trial
Sen. Bob Menendez says his wife has breast cancer and will require a mastectomy, a revelation made just as the presentation of evidence began …
The Supreme Court has rejected a conservative-led attack that could've undermined the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The justices ruled…
The brother-in-law of an Army reservist responsible for killing 18 people in Maine has tearfully apologized for the deadly rampage. An indepen…
Police have dismantled a pro-Palestinian encampment early Thursday at DePaul University in Chicago, hours after the school’s president told st…
Prosecutors’ star witness in the hush money case against Donald Trump is returning to the witness stand as defense lawyers try to chip away at…
In Illinois, 114,000 people are banned from owning guns because of legal tangles or mental health issues. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart will is…
As the U.S. prepares to host its first cricket World Cup next month, a temporary stadium is rising in the New York City suburbs. The sport has…