NATIONAL NEWS

A three-day strike by workers in the Los Angeles Unified School District has wrapped up.

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The White House is defending President Joe Biden’s order that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19 after a federal appeals court blocked it.

Jurors’ names will be kept secret at the upcoming trial of a writer’s rape lawsuit against former President Donald Trump.

Minnesota is moving to strengthen the state’s protections for children and their families who come for gender-affirming care by making itself a “trans refuge state,” bucking a national backlash against transgender rights.

The Biden administration and groups representing the forest products industry have reached a deal to promote logging practices intended to protect imperiled species on private lands.

Unions for service workers at Walt Disney World have reached a tentative deal with the company that would raise the starting minimum wage from $15 to $18.

Fasting across religions is practiced for a wide range of reasons that include spiritual purification and self-discipline.

An asteroid big enough to wipe out a city will zip harmlessly between Earth and the moon's orbit this weekend.

Scientists for the federal government say documents that Georgia state regulators relied upon to conclude a proposed mine won't harm the nearby Okefenokee Swamp and its vast wildlife refuge are riddled with technical errors.

The Los Angeles police chief and the department’s constitutional policing director are under investigation after the names and photographs of undercover officers were released to a technology watchdog group that posted them online.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has signed a ban on most gender-affirming surgeries and hormone replacement therapies for transgender people under 18.

As spring sports get underway at East Palestine High School in Ohio, organizers are trying to create normalcy for student-athletes while cleanup from the February train derailment and toxic chemical burn continues just over a mile away.

A South Carolina barbecue chain known for its pro-segregation stance in a landmark 1960s case and its embrace of the Confederate flag in 2000 is facing allegations of racism and sexual harassment by the fired general manager of one of its restaurants.

Maryland State Police have released more details about a midweek crash on the Baltimore beltway that left six construction workers dead.

With spring now underway, California's 39 million residents are hopeful for sunnier days ahead.

Outraged Denver students and parents are demanding better school security and pushing for tighter firearm controls Thursday, a day after a 17-year-old student shot and wounded two administrators at a city high school beset with violence.

A new report from the American Library Association says attempted book bannings and restrictions at school and public libraries continue to surge, setting a record in 2022.

A bipartisan consensus that Congress should act to toughen regulations on railroads is emerging in the U.S. Senate.

New research finds that drinking caffeinated coffee did not significantly affect one kind of heart rhythm that results in extra beats.

The Michigan Republican Party's social media posts are being called “hateful” and “ignorant” for comparing gun reform to the Holocaust.

Lawyers for Fox News and a voting machine company are tangling over the high bar to prove defamation in a $1.6 billion lawsuit that has embarrassed the conservative network over its airing of false claims related to the 2020 presidential election.

The last of three ex-correctional officers convicted in the beating death of an Illinois prison inmate has been sentenced to six years in federal prison.

The U.S. abortion landscape is far from settled nine months after the U.S. Supreme Court ended the nationwide right to terminate a pregnancy.