Thousands of firefighters were battling a rapidly growing wildfire in northern California on Saturday after the blaze more than doubled in size in a 24-hour span.
The top Arkansas election official has rejected petitions submitted to qualify an abortion rights measure for November's ballot in the Republican-dominated state, saying
More than 100 victims and relatives of victims of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas militants in Israel sued Iran, Syria and North Korea on Monday, accusing the countries of
The lead singer of the celebrated Motown group the Four Tops has sued a Michigan hospital, claiming he was put into restraints and denied treatment for a serious heart problem
People who commit sex crimes against children in Louisiana could be forced to undergo surgical castration under legislation approved by state lawmakers, a measure that would
Families of the victims of the 2022 elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, filed two lawsuits on Friday against Instagram's parent company Meta, Activision Blizzard and
Legal battles over redistricting could lead to new congressional maps for the 2024 election in more than half a dozen states, potentially affecting control of the U.S.
Baltimore's former top prosecutor, Marilyn Mosby, was sentenced on Thursday to one year of home confinement but no prison time for lying to improperly access her city employee
The man who broke into former U.S.
Abortion will be on the ballot in 10 U.S. states for the Nov. 5 election, including battleground states that will play critical roles in the presidential race and the fight
Reuters won two Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, taking home the breaking news photography award for searing images of the Israel-Gaza conflict as well as the national reporting
The building that Columbia University protesters seized early on Tuesday morning, Hamilton Hall, has a history of student takeovers over the decades.
Thousands of reproductive rights supporters rallied on Saturday in Florida to support a voter referendum that would enshrine abortion protections into the state constitution,
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are poised to win enough delegates on Tuesday to clinch their respective parties' nominations, formally kicking off the
The races for governor in North Carolina and New Hampshire will be among the highest profile down-ballot campaigns in November's general election, when the U.S. presidency
The Democratic Party's campaign arm dedicated to state legislative races is investing hundreds of thousands of dollars across seven states in an early salvo ahead of
As many as one in 10 hate crimes in the U.S. take place at schools - from kindergarten through college - according to an FBI report released on Monday, with Black students the
Former President Donald Trump and former U.N.
U.S. prosecutors will seek the death penalty against the avowed white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store in 2022, according
Three Tacoma, Washington, police officers were acquitted on Thursday in the killing of an unarmed Black man whose dying pleas for air sparked protests in 2020, in a case
A teenager who fatally shot four classmates two years ago at his high school outside Detroit faces life in prison without parole at his sentencing on Friday, as grieving
A federal appeals court on Monday ruled that only the U.S. government, not private parties, can sue under a landmark civil rights law barring racial discrimination in voting,
After a victory on Tuesday in Ohio, where voters enshrined abortion rights into the state constitution, abortion access advocates are turning their attention to 2024.
Democrats and abortion rights advocates notched a string of electoral victories on Tuesday, including in conservative Ohio and Kentucky, an early signal that reproductive
Wild winds fuel Southern California wildfire that has forced thousands to evacuate
Asia ex-China equities have biggest monthly foreign outflow in nearly 2-1/2 years
Israel signs deal to acquire 25 F-15 fighter jets from Boeing Co
Britain's Sainsbury's keeps profit outlook after first half rise
UK's Rolls-Royce confident on profit growth despite supply chain woes
French minister slams PSG's 'Free Palestine' banner at soccer match
Paul George gets booed in his return to LA for the 1st time since leaving Clippers to join 76ers
Cavaliers mark historic 9-0 start by getting coach Kenny Atkinson all wet