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Republicans delegates in North Carolina have voted to censure the state’s senior U.S. senator for supporting policies they say violate the GOP platform.

President Joe Biden has welcomed hundreds to the White House for a delayed Pride Month celebration.

New Haven, Connecticut, has agreed to a $45 million settlement with Randy Cox, who was paralyzed while being transported handcuffed and without a seat belt in the back of a police van last year.

Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, known as the “Unabomber,” has died in federal prison.

It seems everyone from the structural engineer to city officials to tenants had concerns about the 116-year-old Davenport apartment building.

Legislative debates can be stuffy.

The biggest Pride parade in New England returns to Boston Saturday after a three-year hiatus.

More changes could be coming to voting districts in some states.

Americans may not like political gridlock, but a new Associated Press analysis indicates that the closely divided Congress relatively accurately reflects the desires of voters.

A Florida organization is helping veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental and physical ailments get back into the civilian world.

A Delaware bankruptcy judge says the names of individual customers of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX Trading can be permanently shielded from public disclosure.

Congress will consider rolling back an Obama-era rule that requires airlines to show the total cost of a ticket when advertising fares.

A Florida professor known as “Dr. Deep” has resurfaced after spending a record 100 days living underwater.

Starting next year, owners of electric vehicles made by General Motors and Ford will be able to charge their EVs at many of Tesla’s charging stations, the largest such network in the country.

Chelsea Peretti plays a first-time director in her directorial debut, “First Time Female Director.”.

Rep. George Santos says he's just trying to protect family members by asking the courts to keep his bond cosigners secret as he fights criminal charges.

A Virginia man who testified he had “fun” at the U.S. Capitol riot has been sentenced to six years in prison for attacking police as he stormed the building.

NorthWestern Energy will resume construction of a natural gas power plant along Montana’s Yellowstone River following a two-month delay.

A new philanthropic funding initiative announced Friday will support campaigns for reparations for Black Americans.

A Tennessee man has pleaded guilty to helping two other men charged with fatally shooting rapper Young Dolph in a daytime ambush at a Memphis bakery.

A businessman at the center of the scandal that led to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s historic impeachment is set to make an initial appearance in federal court following his arrest by the FBI.

The chief suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway has arrived at a courthouse in Alabama to face charges that he tried to extort the missing teen's mother.

Worshippers, police officers and other witnesses have testified to the horror of the nation's deadliest antisemitic attack in the ongoing federal trial of Robert Bowers.

The presidential campaign of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is busy courting white evangelicals – a key voting bloc for the GOP.

Oregon has long been known as a mecca for high-quality marijuana, but that reputation has come with a downside.

Pat Robertson united tens of millions of evangelical Christians through the power of television.

California's transit agencies are asking Democrats who control the state's government to rescue them like Democrats in New York recently did.

Advocates for survivors of child sexual abuse say momentum is growing for completely removing the statute of limitations for such crimes.

A judge overseeing the case against a man charged with killing four University of Idaho students is set to hear arguments over a gag order that largely bars attorneys and other parties in the case from speaking with news reporters.

Former President Donald Trump said Thursday on social media that he’s been indicted on charges of mishandling classified documents at his Florida estate.

The Nevada Senate adjourned on Thursday without voting on a a financing bill for a proposed $1.5 billion Las Vegas Strip stadium for the Oakland Athletics, extending the special legislative session into the next week amid negotiations over whether to contribute $380 million in public funding to the project.

A judge is deciding whether to sanction two lawyers who blamed ChatGPT for tricking them into including fictitious legal research in a court filing.

West Coast social media users are sharing their DIY tips for building an air purifier at home as smoke from Canada wildfires are cloaking much of the East Coast.

The Federal Aviation Administration has another acting leader at the controls.

Reagan administration Interior Secretary James Watt has died at age 85.

FBI agents have arrested a Texas businessman at the center of the scandal that led to the historic impeachment of state Attorney General Ken Paxton.

A California jury has returned a $63 million verdict against Chevron after finding the oil giant covered up a toxic chemical pit on land purchased by a man who built a house on it and was later diagnosed with a blood cancer.

New York would create a commission to consider reparations to address the lingering, negative effects of slavery under a bill passed by the state Legislature.

The Los Angeles district attorney's office has left Twitter due to barrage of what the office called vicious homophobic attacks.

Mark Seitz, the Roman Catholic bishop of El Paso, Texas, tells The Associated Press that Florida Gov_ Ron DeSantis' flights of migrants from the Texas border to California are “reprehensible” and “not morally acceptable.”.

Electric vehicles made by General Motors will be able to use much of Tesla’s vast charging network starting early next year.

The S&P 500 is now in what Wall Street refers to as a bull market, meaning the index has risen 20% or more from its most recent low.

Hawaii tourism officials are urging tourists to be respectful when flocking to a national park on the Big Island to get a glimpse of the latest eruption of Kilauea.

The Flash may be one of the quickest superheroes in the comics, but getting a movie made based on the characters has been a marathon dating back, in some ways, to the late 1980s.

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump say a $5 million jury award for his sexual abuse and defamation of a columnist in a department store dressing room in 1996 should be slashed to less than $1 million.

A Florida police officer has testified he didn't initially know where shots were being fired from during the Parkland high school massacre five years ago.

The hazardous haze from Canada’s wildfires is taking its toll on outdoor workers along the Eastern U.S. who carried on with their daily jobs even as dystopian orange skies forced the cancelation of sports events, school field trips and Broadway plays.

The United Arab Emirates official tapped to head the next global climate summit pledged Thursday to listen to young people demanding a place at the table when negotiators gather in the Gulf nation this fall.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing an amendment to the United States Constitution that would enshrine into law regulations on guns, including implementing universal background checks and raising the minimum age to buy a firearm to 21.

While under house arrest in New York, Anna Sorokin has launched the podcast, “The Anna Delvey Show.”.

Lawmakers this year kicked rival colleagues out of office in Tennessee and off the chamber floor in Montana.

The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate eased back from a seven-month high this week, a welcome change for homebuyers navigating high borrowing costs and heightened competition for relatively few homes for sale.

Authorities say a white Florida woman accused of shooting and killing her Black neighbor told investigators she had been threatened by the victim and in the months before the slaying.

Baltimore’s police commissioner is stepping down after four years in the role.

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits last week rose to its highest level since October 2021, but the labor market remains one of the healthiest parts of the U.S. economy.

Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson has died.

An Australian man who admitted killing a gay American by punching him off a cliff top in Sydney in 1988 has been sentenced to nine years in prison.

Authorities say embers from a smoldering scrap wood fire outside a home days earlier and a sparking power line separately caused a Colorado wildfire fanned by high winds that destroyed nearly 1,100 homes and left two people dead.

A growing number of states are decriminalizing fentanyl testing strips, seeking to protect people who use drugs from unwitting exposure to the highly potent synthetic opioid ravaging the U.S. with overdose deaths.

President Joe Biden has invited thousands of LGBTQ+ individuals to the White House to celebrate Pride Month.

Officials in Portland, Oregon, have voted to pass an ordinance prohibiting camping during daytime hours in most public places as the city struggles to address a longtime homelessness crisis.

Two police officers in New Haven, Connecticut, have been fired for what authorities call their reckless actions and lack of compassion in handling prisoner Richard “Randy” Cox after he became paralyzed in the back of a police van last year.

New York City has filed suit against dozens of counties over their refusal to take in new migrants, the latest escalation in an ongoing battle between the city and local leaders across the state.

An autopsy has determined that a man who died in January after police officers in North Carolina's capital city repeatedly used stun guns died from “sudden cardiac arrest.”.

Roughly two dozen killer whales were spotted last month off the coast of San Francisco in an uncommonly large grouping of orcas for Northern California.

Workers at the Barnes & Noble in Manhattan’s Union Square, one of the retail chain’s signature stores, have voted to unionize.

Tesla may face a class-action lawsuit after 240 Black factory workers in California described rampant racism and discrimination.

A South Florida jury has agreed that a former Florida State football player acted in self-defense when he fatally shot one man and injured another several hours after he scuffled with his girlfriend.

Richard Snyder, a visionary and imperious executive at Simon & Schuster who presided over the publisher’s exponential rise during the second half of the 20th century and helped define an era of growing corporate power, has died.

A bronze statue of renowned American author Willa Cather has been unveiled in the National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol.

The Iron Sheik, a former pro wrestler who played a burly, bombastic villain in 1980s battles with some of the sport’s biggest stars, has died at age 81.

The Los Angeles Times says it is cutting 74 jobs due to economic challenges as the newspaper strives to transform itself into a digital media organization.

Many Americans will be marking Juneteenth this month.

Transgender minors and some adults soon will be banned from accessing puberty blockers, hormones and gender-affirming surgeries under a bill signed by Missouri’s Republican governor.

Opening statements are underway in the trial of a former Florida sheriff's deputy charged with failing to stop the Parkland school massacre five years ago.

Kilauea Volcano on Hawaii's Big Island has begun erupting again.

Congressional delegates from Ohio are promoting Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton as the location for the new Space Command headquarters.

Activists have announced an effort to force a referendum that would allow Atlanta voters to decide whether the construction of a proposed police and firefighter training center should proceed.

Federal appeals court judges are seeking compromise among attorneys involved in a fight over government mandates for preventive health care.

The suspect in a shooting that left two dead and five others wounded after a Virginia high school graduation has appeared in court.

Chris Licht is out after a year as chief executive at CNN, following a series of missteps and plunging ratings.

Andrew Young, one of the last surviving members of Martin Luther King Jr.'s inner circle, recalls the journey to the signing of the Voting Rights Act as an arduous one, often marked by violence and bloodshed.

Della Simpson Maynor was just 14 when she marched for voting rights in her hometown of Marion, Alabama, but she says she clearly remembers the police attacking the demonstrators.

A Black prosecutor who stepped into leadership during protests over the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown is running for Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley's Missouri seat.

New York City has filed a lawsuit against Hyundai and Kia, claiming that the automakers’ vehicles are too susceptible to theft.

The Marion County Sheriff’s Office says a Florida woman accused of fatally shooting her neighbor last week in the violent culmination of what the sheriff described as a 2½-year feud was arrested Tuesday.

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum touted his small-town roots and business experience as he announced his candidacy for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

Afghan soldier Abdul Wasi Safi's days since his release from a Texas immigration detention center have been filled with medical appointments while living in Houston with his brother.

Virginia regulators are expected to take a final vote on whether to advance Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s plan to withdraw from a multistate carbon cap-and-trade program.

A man accused of supporting a foiled plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer plans to change his plea from not guilty.

When the Federal Reserve meets next week, Chair Jerome Powell will need to forge a consensus.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has revoked a crucial federal permit for the proposed NewRange Copper Nickel mine in northeastern Minnesota, saying the permit did not comply with the water quality standards set by a sovereign downstream tribe.

Reporters are a skeptical bunch, so it was unusual to hear so many of them raving about their firsthand experience with Apple’s next Big Thing.

Françoise Gilot, a prolific painter who was nonetheless more famous for her turbulent relationship with Pablo Picasso — and for leaving him — died on Tuesday in Manhattan.

More details are emerging about four people killed when a private jet crashed in Virginia after causing a scare over Washington.

Authorities in Richmond, Virginia, say seven people were shot following a high school graduation ceremony held at a downtown theater near Virginia Commonwealth University.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is denying a woman's claims that he forced her to have sex and owes her $2 million in unpaid wages.

Oregon Democratic lawmakers stood on the steps of the state Capitol and implored Republicans, who have been boycotting the Senate for over a month, to return and vote on bills.

A Florida law banning transgender youth from getting medical treatment is temporarily on hold after a surprise decision by a federal judge.

Canada is dealing with a series of intense wildfires that have spread from the western provinces to Quebec, with hundreds of forest fires burning.