President Donald Trump plans to announce next week that the U.S. will refer to the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf or the Gulf of Arabia

A 5-year-old bear that was a member of a beloved grizzly family in Wyomings Grand Teton National Park has died

A retired U.S. brigadier general who failed to get through the confirmation process in the first Trump administration is getting renewed scrutiny for his political and anti-Islamic social media posts

Birmingham city officials have sued the Alabama governor to stop him from signing of a bill that would strip the city of control over the states largest water board

A Michigan court says it wont accept an appeal from a school shooter who was sentenced to life in prison in 2023 for killing four students and wounding others

The fate of three former Memphis police officers charged in the beating of Tyre Nichols is in the hands of 12 jurors as deliberations began in the Black man's death

Two teenage basketball players, a coach and a trainer from the Tulsa, Oklahoma, area were among eight people killed in a fiery head-on highway crash in eastern Kansas

The U.S. trade deficit soared to a monthly record of $140.5 billion in March, signaling a rush for imports from businesses and consumers alike ahead of President Donald Trumps latest and most sweeping tariffs taking effect

The Scripps National Spelling Bee wont be so quick to force spellers into a lightning-round tiebreaker to decide a champion this year

The Catholic bishop of a New Jersey diocese says he would no longer oppose a state grand jury investigation of clergy sexual abuse that the church has been fighting behind closed doors in court for years

A Kentucky woman was in a sticky mess when she found stacks of boxes containing lollipops on her doorstep

The National Transportation Safety Board says a deadly explosion that leveled one Missouri home and damaged two others happened after a subcontractor drilled into an unmarked underground gas main while installing fiber optic cable

The head of Homeland Security says travelers who arent REAL ID compliant by the upcoming deadline this week will still be able to fly but should be prepared for extra scrutiny

A lawyer says the teen accused of killing four people in a shooting at Georgias Apalachee High School is moving toward pleading guilty

The United States is the home country of 10 of the 133 cardinals eligible to vote for the next pope of the Catholic Church

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has arrived in Washington for a high-stakes meeting with President Donald Trump

A town official in upstate New York has been arrested after state police say he shot and wounded a delivery driver who got lost and approached his house seeking directions

Top officials at the Los Angeles firefighters labor union have been suspended

Rescue crews in Texas are searching for a 10-year-old girl swept away by rapidly rising floodwaters and forecasters warn that more heavy rains and flooding could be on the way to the Houston area and the states coast

Jurors are expected to begin deliberating Tuesday in the trial of three former Memphis police officers charged with second-degree murder in the beating death of Tyre Nichols in January 2023

A federal judge has ruled that disputed ballots in the still unresolved 2024 race for a North Carolina Supreme Court seat must remain in the final count

President Donald Trump on Monday promoted a dinner hes set to attend later this month thats open to almost anyone who buys enough of his meme coin

Authorities say eight people died when two vehicles collided head-on and burst into flames on a two-lane highway in rural eastern Kansas

Flight delays and cancellations are causing more chaos at Newark Liberty International Airport outside New York City

OpenAI is reversing course and said Monday its nonprofit will continue to control the business that makes ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence products

Jurors have begun deliberating over whether former Grand Rapids police officer Christopher Schurr was justified when he shot and killed Patrick Lyoya, a 26-year-old Congolese immigrant, in April 2022

A sperm whale that beached itself on a popular South Carolina resort island has been euthanized after veterinarians determined it was too sick to help

President Donald Trump wants to turn Alcatraz into a federal prison again

City officials say a $2 billion project to fix a massive leak in a water tunnel that supplies about half of New York Citys water wont be completed for a few more years

A correctional officer has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in connection with the December death of inmate Robert Brooks, whose brutal beating at the Marcy Correctional Facility was recorded by body cameras

Three Democratic U.S. senators are asking the Trump administration to explain how it analyzed a proposed rule to eliminate habitat protections for endangered and threatened species and whether industry had a hand in drafting it

Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff is among many Democrats looking to find the right path to challenge President Donald Trump and Republicans after the GOP won the White House and congressional majorities in 2024

Students and faculty at Dakota State University are facing free speech concerns for the first time now that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is set to deliver the commencement speech May 10

Indigenous people across North America are rallying to plead for sustained responses to violence in their communities

An ambitious project to restore a rapidly vanishing stretch of Louisiana coast devastated by the 2010 Gulf oil spill has been thrown deeper into disarray amid claims by Gov. Jeff Landry that his predecessor concealed an unfavorable study that could imp...

Lawyers are scheduled to make opening statements at the trial of a man charged with carrying out a string of shootings that killed eight people in the Phoenix area over a three-week span in 2017

Ohio authorities say theyve solved the more than decade-old murder of a Cleveland Clinic nurse and announced murder charges against her former divorce attorney who already served jail time for lying to police

UNESCO announces Nicaragua's withdrawal from UN cultural body in protest over press freedom award

International students in the U.S. are reconsidering their travel plans this summer after a wave of student status terminations and visa revocations

Former Vice President Mike Pence will receive the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for his refusal to go along with President Donald Trumps efforts to remain in office after losing the 2020 election

The winning numbers in Saturday evenings drawing of the Powerball game were: 10-21-23-35-65, Powerball: 24

President Donald Trump wants to tap into beautiful, clean coal to help meet the electricity demands of what he bills as a new dawn of manufacturing and technological advancement in the United States

Gov. Ron DeSantis has had firm support from Florida's legislative body for six years

A holdover of the once numerous roadside attractions that lined U.S. 1 in Florida from Jacksonville to Key West, the Rain Barrel Village is a collection of eccentric, colorful buildings serving as a home for artists and art sellers in the Florida Keys

The home of Elon Musks SpaceX rocket company is now an official Texas city with a galactic name: Starbase

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a $1 billion voucher program into law

President Donald Trump has posted an artificial intelligence-generated image of himself dressed as pope

Investor Warren Buffett says he will retire at the end of the year from Berkshire Hathaway

An Olympic track medalist is charged in Florida with punching a female hurdler.

The deaths of at least six foreign nationals in a fiery van crash in eastern Idaho are a reminder that many visitors to two of the busiest U.S. national parks, Yellowstone and Grand Teton, and nearby areas come from around the world