KENOSHA, Wis. — A Wisconsin high school is ending cheerleading awards given annually to girls with the largest breasts or buttocks — dubbed “B…
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen was granted a few more weeks of freedom Wednesday after his lawyer sa…
WASHINGTON — An Alabama woman who left home to join the Islamic State group in Syria is not a U.S. citizen and will not be allowed to return t…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A small-town newspaper has called for a resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, prompting two universities to withdraw the awards i…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday directed the Pentagon to develop plans to create a new Space Force within the Air Force, accept…
Sixteen states on Monday filed a federal lawsuit challenging President Trump’s national-emergency declaration to pay for a wall along the U.S.…
The biggest supermoon of 2019 will appear in the night sky on Feb. 19. At 8:53 p.m. MST, it will be just 221,681 miles away from Earth — and d…
WASHINGTON — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose insurgent 2016 presidential campaign reshaped Democratic politics, announced Tuesday that he i…
RALEIGH, N.C. — A Republican operative, who last year rounded up votes for a GOP candidate running for Congress, conducted an illegal and well…
JERUSALEM — Poland on Monday withdrew from a European summit in Jerusalem, derailing the meeting and embarrassing its Israeli hosts, to protes…
CHICAGO — Attorneys for "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett say there are no plans for him to meet with Chicago detectives Monday for a follow-up i…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The ecstatic sailor shown kissing a woman in Times Square celebrating the end of World War II has died. George Mendonsa was 95.
AYER, Mass. — Disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner has been released from federal prison in Massachusetts.
Last month, a Florida woman with autism who doctors thought might never be able to work a minimum wage job or live on her own was admitted to …
AURORA, Ill. — An initial background check five years ago failed to flag an out-of-state felony conviction that would have prevented a man fro…
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A top adviser to President Donald Trump indicated Sunday that Trump is prepared to issue the first veto of his term if…
The outdoor recreation industry can help the nation’s efforts to break free from polluting fuels that contribute to global warming, a Grand Ju…
SANTA FE, N.M. — Lawmakers say a federal budget compromise approved by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump provides $50 million of a…
CHICAGO — The investigation into black actor Jussie Smollett's account of being beaten in a racist, anti-gay attack took a sharp turn Friday w…
NEVIS, Minn. — Three people are dead and a sheriff's deputy is recovering from shrapnel wounds after a shooting incident in Nevis.
WASHINGTON — Battling with one branch of government and opening a new confrontation with another, President Donald Trump announced Friday he w…
SAUSALITO, Calif. — Waves of heavy rain pounded California on Thursday, trapping people in floodwaters, washing away a mountain highway, trigg…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's plan to declare a national emergency to free up money for his border wall would be an extraordinary step…
NEW YORK — Amazon will not build a new headquarters in New York City, a stunning reversal to an ambitious plan that would have brought an esti…
WASHINGTON — The Senate resoundingly approved a border security compromise Thursday that ignores most of President Donald Trump's demands for …
PARKLAND, Fla. — Hundreds of thousands of students and adults across Florida and beyond observed a moment of silence Thursday to mark the firs…
TUCSON, Ariz. — Aaron Francisco Chavez swallowed at least one of the sky blue pills at a Halloween party before falling asleep forever. He bec…
RIO RANCHO, N.M. — A shot was fired Thursday on the grounds of a suburban Albuquerque high school on the first anniversary of the Parkland, Fl…
WASHINGTON — Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said in an interview aired Thursday that he worried that investigations into President D…
The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday unveiled its long-awaited plan for tackling the toxic chemicals contaminating the Widefield aq…
WASHINGTON — A former U.S. Air Force counterintelligence specialist who defected to Iran has been charged with revealing classified informatio…
WASHINGTON — Under mounting pressure from his own party, President Donald Trump appears to be grudgingly leaning toward accepting an agreement…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The national debt has passed a new milestone, topping $22 trillion for the first time.
NEW YORK — Mexico's most notorious drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, was convicted Tuesday of running an industrial-scale smuggling operat…
WASHINGTON • The Senate on Tuesday approved a major public lands bill that revives a popular conservation program, adds 1.3 million acres of n…
PARKLAND, Fla. — It's an image that has become emblematic of the Parkland school massacre : two terrified moms outside Marjory Stoneman Dougla…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday he's "unhappy" with a hard-won agreement to prevent a new government shutdown and finance con…
NEW YORK — Could this really be the year that dachshunds get out of the Westminster doghouse?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional negotiators reached agreement Monday night to prevent a government shutdown and finance construction of new ba…
TAUNTON, Mass. — A Massachusetts woman who sent her suicidal boyfriend a barrage of text messages urging him to kill himself was jailed Monday…
WASHINGTON — Freshman Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar "unequivocally" apologized Monday for tweets suggesting that members of Congress support Isra…
NEW YORK • Toys R Us fans in the U.S. should see the iconic brand re-emerge in some form by this holiday season.
Immigrants from Honduras and Nepal have filed a lawsuit alleging the Trump administration unfairly ended a program that lets them live and wor…
LOS ANGELES — Rap artists and women have felt shunned by the Grammy Awards in recent years. But this year, they both took center stage.
MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar on Sunday joined the growing group of Democrats jostling to be president and positioned herself as …
WASHINGTON — Bargainers clashed Sunday over whether to limit the number of migrants authorities can detain, tossing a new hurdle before negoti…
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Long before an ex-student opened fire on his former classmates in Parkland, Florida, many school districts conducted regular s…
PARKLAND, Fla. — The massacre that left 17 dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School pushed students, parents, officials and others into th…
LOS ANGELES — More than 120 visitors and staff who were snowbound in a Sierra Nevada resort for five days have been freed, authorities said Friday.
WASHINGTON — A second woman accused Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexual assault Friday, saying the Democrat raped her 19 years ago whil…
