Lawsuit: Transgender teen strip-searched at airport
A North Carolina woman is suing the Transportation Security Administration, saying her transgender teenager was ordered to undergo a strip-search…
Helicopter crashes into Tennessee River; 1 dead, 3 saved
Authorities say one person has died after a helicopter crashed into the Tennessee River August 4, 2020, 12:36 PM 2…
Hunger organization pushes out Yoho after Capitol incident
A nonpartisan Christian organization that seeks to end hunger says it has asked for and received the resignation of congressman…
Irish national convicted in police station bombing deported
An Irish national convicted of bombing a police station in Ireland in the 1990s has been deported from Boston July…
Coast Guard makes two rescues from boat before it goes under
The U.S. Coast Guard rescued a commercial fisherman who was clinging to a cooler in the Gulf of Mexico after…
Ohio House speaker, 4 others arrested in $60M bribery case
The powerful Republican speaker of the Ohio House and four associates have been arrested in a $60 million federal bribery…
Pentagon identifies US Army soldier who died in Jordan
The Pentagon has identified a U.S. Army soldier who died Tuesday in Jordan June 25, 2020, 12:40 AM 1 min…
Washington DC faces House vote to become the 51st state
Calling it an issue that transcends domestic politics, Democrats controlling the House have slated a vote next week to make…
US challenges planned expedition to retrieve Titanic’s radio
The U.S. government will try to stop a company’s planned salvage mission to retrieve the Titanic’s wireless telegraph machine By…
Police, FBI search again at man’s home in missing kids case
Investigators returned Tuesday to search the Idaho home of a man with ties to the mysterious disappearance of two children…
Thousands of LA protesters won’t be charged over curfew
Los Angeles prosecutors say they won’t charge thousands of protesters arrested for violating curfew and other police orders By BRIAN…
FBI says its top lawyer is leaving the bureau
The FBI’s top lawyer, Dana Boente, is leaving the bureau May 31, 2020, 1:09 AM 3 min read 3 min…
Iran says missile kills 19 sailors in training accident
Iran says a military training accident has killed 19 of its sailors and wounded 15 others in waters near the…
Company says drug proved effective against virus in US study
A biotech company says its experimental drug has proved effective against the new coronavirus in a major U.S. government study…
Coast Guard: Duck boat changes needed after Missouri sinking
National federal safety regulators say actions by the owners of a tourist boat that sank in Missouri in 2018 and…
Officials want delay in nation’s head count due to virus
The U.S. Census Bureau wants to delay deadlines for the 2020 head count of all U.S. residents because of the…
Linda Tripp, whose tapes exposed Clinton scandal, dies at 70
Linda Tripp, whose secretly recorded conversations with White House intern Monica Lewinsky led to the 1998 impeachment of President Bill…
US-led forces pull out of 3rd Iraqi base this month
U.S.-led coalition forces have pulled out of an Iraqi military base that nearly brought Washington into an open war with…
Mexican man dies in ICE custody; 10th since October
A 42-year-old Mexican man died in a South Texas hospital while being held pending his deportation March 23, 2020, 5:43…
Omar marries political consultant, months after affair claim
U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota has married a political consultant who worked for her, months after the two were…
Afghans set to release 1,500 Taliban; US wants less violence
After a series of delays, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has agreed to release 1,500 Taliban prisoners as a goodwill gesture…
Authorities: 3 killed in rural West Texas small plane crash
Authorities say three people were killed when a small plane crashed in rural West Texas as the pilot tried to…
In Alaska, rural living complicates access to Real ID
JUNEAU, Alaska — For many Americans, going to a state motor vehicle office can be a tedious time suck. For…
Man carrying knife arrested outside White House after threat
Police say a man carrying a knife was arrested outside the White House after he told a U.S. Secret Service…
Wreckage of small jet found north of Atlanta
The wreckage of a small jet has been found in a remote area of Georgia, north of Atlanta February 9,…
ICE sued over treatment of 5-year-old with head injury
The mother of a 5-year-old Guatemalan boy has sued U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement over the medical care he has…
Republican governor says Trump ‘shouldn’t be in office’
Vermont’s Republican governor says he thinks President Donald Trump abused his power and shouldn’t be in office By WILSON RING…
4 Iraqi servicemen wounded by rocket attack on air base
Iraqi security officials say four members of Iraq’s military have been wounded by a rocket attack targeting an air base…
Montana tribe’s long recognition struggle clears Congress
U By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press December 17, 2019, 11:33 PM 4 min read BILLINGS, Mont. — U.S. lawmakers granted…
US finally giving boot to official foot measurement
The United States is abandoning the definition of the foot used to measure big things and replacing it with the…
Possible ‘white power’ hand signs at Army-Navy game probed
Officials at two military academies say the schools are looking into hand signs flashed by students during the Army-Navy football…
US judge blocks Trump’s health insurance rule for immigrants
A federal judge in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday put on hold a Trump administration rule requiring immigrants prove they will…
Iraq: American troops leaving Syria cannot stay in Iraq
U.S. troops leaving Syria and heading to neighboring Iraq do not have permission to stay in the country, Iraq‘s military…
US may now keep some troops in Syria to guard oil fields
Even as American forces make a hasty and chaotic withdrawal from northeastern Syria, the U.S. is considering leaving some troops…
Pelosi leads congressional delegation in Afghanistan visit
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has led a congressional delegation on a visit to Afghanistan. Her office said in a statement…
Over-the-counter heartburn drug Zantac pulled in US, Canada
Drugmaker Sanofi is recalling its over-the-counter heartburn drug Zantac in the U.S. and Canada because of possible contamination. The French…
ACLU says Census Bureau should stop driver license requests
A civil rights group is asking state motor vehicle agencies across the U.S. to reject a request from the U.S.…
Trump portrays Mideast as a bloody sandbox, maligns Kurds
President Donald Trump is surfacing cultural stereotypes as he depicts the Middle East as a blood-soaked sandbox where people “play”…
Trump rule may mean 1 million kids lose automatic free lunch
Nearly a million children could lose their automatic eligibility for free school lunches under a Trump administration proposal that would…
Immigrant kills himself in ICE jail: Official
Federal authorities say a Cuban man has died by apparent suicide while being detained at an immigration jail in Louisiana.…
Large chunk of border wall funding diverted from tiny Guam
President Donald Trump is raising a large chunk of the money for his border wall with Mexico by deferring several…
US says it carried out 3 airstrikes in Libya in 8 days
The U.S. military says it has carried out an airstrike against the Islamic State group in Libya, the third U.S.…
Kremlin says it hopes US wouldn’t release Trump-Putin calls
Ukraine’s top anti-corruption official said Friday his agency hasn’t launched an investigation into former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden or…
FAA chief will test Boeing’s MAX changes this week
The nation’s top aviation regulator says he plans to go into a flight simulator and personally test changes that Boeing…
High-capacity magazines get new scrutiny as Congress returns
Lawmakers around the country are making a renewed push to ban high-capacity magazines that gunmen have used in many recent…
More vaping illnesses reported, many involving marijuana
Health officials are recommending people who vape consider avoiding e-cigarettes while they investigate more cases of a breathing ailment linked…
Trump eyes mental institutions as answer to gun violence
When shots rang out last year at a high school in Parkland, Florida, leaving 17 people dead, President Donald Trump…
S. Korea says N. Korea has fired more projectiles into sea
South Korea’s military said Friday North Korea fired more projectiles into the sea to extend a recent streak of weapons…
Officer in Mexico’s National Guard killed in shootout
Mexico’s new National Guard force suffered its first casualty in the line of duty, when an officer was killed in…
US military says service member killed in Iraq
The U.S. military says a U.S. service member has died during a combat mission with Iraqi security forces in Iraq‘s…
Rand Paul undergoes lung surgery stemming from assault
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul underwent lung surgery in a procedure he says stems from injuries suffered when a neighbor tackled…
US Treasury Department labels China a currency manipulator
The U.S. Treasury Department labeled China a currency manipulator Monday after Beijing pushed down the value of its yuan in…
Lawyer, Kennedy friend involved in Chappaquiddick crash dies
A former federal prosecutor who was on Chappaquiddick Island the night of U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy’s fateful car crash has…
Textured breast implant recalled due to ties to rare cancer
Breast implant maker Allergan Inc. issued a worldwide recall Wednesday for certain textured models after regulators alerted the company to…