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Severe thunderstorms have hit southeastern Texas for the second time this month.
US military says first aid shipment has been driven across a newly built US pier into the Gaza Strip
Trucks carrying badly needed aid for the Gaza Strip have rolled across a newly built U.S. floating pier into the besieged enclave for the first time.
President Joe Biden has asserted executive privilege over audio of his interview with special counsel Robert Hur that’s at the center a Republican effort to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress, the Justice Department told lawmakers on Thursday.
The 2024 ACM Awards will stream on Prime Video and the Amazon Music channel on Twitch Live at 8 p.m. Eastern.
A Detroit man who dropped a teenager’s body into a dumpster after dark but insisted he wasn’t responsible for her death was convicted of second-degree murder Thursday.
In police radio traffic that lawyer Ben Crump played at a news conference surrounded by Fortson’s family, a dispatcher says all they know about the location of the disturbance is “fourth-party information.”
The barge crashed into a pillar supporting the Pelican Island Causeway span on Wednesday, causing the bridge to partially collapse and cut off the only road connecting Galveston to Pelican Island.
Teen who ate spicy tortilla chip died of high chile consumption and had a heart defect, autopsy says
The Worcester teen, a 10th grader, died on Sept. 1, 2023, after eating the chip.
Cohen was back in the hot seat for a third day of testimony as defense lawyers painted Trump’s fixer-turned-foe as a spurned former employee who will say whatever it takes to put Trump behind bars.
McDonald’s plans to introduce a $5 meal deal in the U.S. next month to counter slowing sales and customers’ frustration with high prices.
Justice Department formally moves to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug in historic shift
The Justice Department on Thursday formally moved to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug in a historic shift in generations of U.S. drug policy.
Savannah Gankiewicz of Hawaii was crowned Miss USA 2023 on Wednesday, more than a week after the previous titleholder resigned citing her mental health.
Visa on Wednesday announced major changes to how credit and debit cards will operate in the U.S. in the coming months and years.
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the majority opinion, splitting with his frequent allies, Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch, who dissented.
EA Sports College Football 25 will be EA’s first college football game in over a decade.
The announcement comes after President Joe Biden and Trump agreed to two debates this summer.
U.S. stocks drifted higher to add to their records set a day before.
The Canadian rapper received seven nominations Thursday, including an album of the year nod for his eighth studio album, “For All the Dogs.”
America’s Northeast and Midwest cities are rebounding slightly from years of population drops — especially Detroit, which grew for the first time in decades — though the South still dominates the nation’s growth, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Thursday.
Officials say the investigation is active, and it's not yet clear what charges might be filed.
The quick agreement on the timetable to meet followed the Democrat’s announcement that he will not participate in fall presidential debates sponsored by the nonpartisan commission that has organized them for more than three decades.
The three-term senator has insisted since his fall arrest that he is not guilty of charges that he used his influence to aid three New Jersey businessmen, including by providing favors to the governments of Egypt and Qatar.
Netflix and the NFL announced a three-year deal Wednesday to stream games on Christmas Day.
Boat strike causes oil spill, partial collapse of bridge between Galveston and Pelican Island, Texas
A barge has hit a bridge in Galveston, Texas, partially collapsing a rail line and closing only road to a small island.
Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker railed against Pride month, working women, President Biden’s leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic and abortion during a commencement address at Benedictine College last weekend.
An Air Force instructor pilot was killed when the ejection seat activated while the jet was still on the ground at a Texas military base.
Actor Angie Harmon has filed a lawsuit against Instacart and one of its former shoppers who fatally shot her dog in March while delivering groceries at her North Carolina home.
U.S. stocks rallied to records on hopes that inflation is heading back in the right direction.
The Biden administration has told key lawmakers it is sending a new package of more than $1 billion in arms and ammunition to Israel, three congressional aides said Tuesday.
Prices rose 0.3% from March to April, the Labor Department said Wednesday, down slightly from 0.4% the previous month.
Kouri Richins, 33, faces several felony charges for allegedly killing her husband with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022 at their home in a small mountain town near Park City.
NTSB's remarks came the day after the safety board released its preliminary report into the bridge collapse.
The packages generally send U.S. taxpayer money to American defense firms to manufacture and ship weaponry and other military supplies to the recipient country.
About 107,500 people died of overdoses in the U.S. last year, the CDC estimated.
Hall of Fame and two-time Triple Crown-winning trainer Bob Baffert said Muth’s temperature reached 103 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius) and the camp had no choice but to scratch him.
Court cases slowly have chipped away at the dream outlined in the case of Brown v. Board, leaving fewer and fewer tools in the hands of districts to integrate schools by the early 2000s.
Authorities say the suspect fled the building and was later fatally shot by police.
The little girl left the hospital weighing a healthy 10 pounds after six months in a neonatal intensive care unit.
In all, more than 2,500 dogs spanning about 200 breeds and varieties entered the show.
President Joe Biden’s son is accused of lying about his drug use in October 2018 on a form to buy a gun that he kept for about 11 days.
Walmart on Tuesday announced layoffs affecting several hundred jobs at the retail giant’s campus offices.
Trump, the first former U.S. president to go on trial, was joined at the courthouse by an entourage that included House Speaker Mike Johnson, who claimed the case was politically motivated by Democrats.
A team of marine life researchers says there were 197 such known interactions in 2021 and another 207 in 2022.
The Justice Department has determined that Boeing violated a settlement that allowed the company to avoid criminal prosecution after two deadly crashes involving its 737 Max aircraft, the agency told a federal judge on Tuesday.
Eight TikTok content creators sued the U.S. government on Tuesday, issuing another challenge to the new federal law that would ban the popular social media platform nationwide if its China-based parent company doesn’t sell its stakes within a year.
Investigators probing the March collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore said in a preliminary report Tuesday the cargo ship Dali experienced an electrical blackout about 10 hours before leaving the Port of Baltimore while undergoing maintenance.
The announcement did not specify any locations or indicate the agencies were tracking any specific threats.
The tariffs come in the middle of a heated campaign between President Joe Biden and his Republican predecessor, Donald Trump, in which both candidates are vying to show who’s tougher on China.
In all, the survey counted about 90,000 monthly surgical or medication abortions offered by medical providers in 2023, higher than the previous year.
A prosecutor in Metz, France, confirmed Tuesday that Ian Thomas Cleary, 31, of Saratoga, California, had been taken into custody last month and will be held pending extradition proceedings.
