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A Department of Homeland Security agent who the FBI says conspired with another agent to sell an illicit drug known as “bath salts” has plea...

Huge gates at the mouths of three inlets and barriers across bays are no longer part of a plan to protect New Jersey’s back bays from the ty...

The military’s tradition of tracking Santa Claus will carry on even if the U.S. government shuts down

No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama

The military has ordered new safety guidelines for a key part in all Osprey aircraft after a recent accident revealed the same problem that...

Michigan Democrats are ending their final days in control of the state government bogged down with disunity and inaction

The first U.S. diplomats to visit Syria since President Bashar Assad's ouster earlier this month are in Damascus to hold talks with the coun...

Texas’ attorney general is again trying to block a man on death row from giving testimony at the state Capitol

Authorities say a 24-year-old man suspected of fatally shooting three people in central Illinois has been killed after firing shots at polic...

The U.N. General Assembly has approved a resolution asking the U.N.’s highest court to state what Israel’s obligations are in Gaza and the W...

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says a food company has chosen the Bluegrass State for a facility that will employ more than 900 people

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it deported more than 270,000 people to 192 countries over a recent 12-month period, the highe...

Kentucky's attorney general says the state is under no legal requirement to use taxpayer money to cover the costs of gender-affirming surger...

New Jersey’s top court has agreed to temporarily pause a lower court decision that determined the attorney general overstepped his authority...

A Missouri judge has rejected arguments that a bank mismanaged painter Thomas Hart Benton’s estate by selling his artwork for less than what...

A man has been sentenced to life without parole for fatally strangling his deaf cellmate while he was in Baltimore’s jail awaiting a murder...

The Pentagon says the United States doubled the number of forces in Syria to fight the Islamic State group before the overthrow of President...

Officials say FBI agents searched the home of a Los Angeles deputy mayor this week as part of an investigation into whether he made a bomb t...

American farmers are hoping that aid to agriculture will be revived as Congress struggles to avert a looming partial government shutdown

Northern Virginia's largest high school has canceled the final two days of classes in 2024 after fights at the school resulted in injuries t...

A former Virginia sheriff has been on bribery charges for deputizing individuals in exchange for cash payments

A 20-year-old blind cat named Tiki caused a scare after he was seen on ice floating in a Massachusetts pond and then fell in

The number of executions in the U.S. remained near historic lows in 2024 and was mostly carried out in a small group of states

A fast-moving winter storm brought snow, ice, strong winds and bitter cold to much of the upper Midwest, snarling traffic in the Twin Cities...

The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the US rises to its highest level since late November