South Carolina voters are narrowing down candidates in key races for governor and U.S. Senate

Lawyers for a young man who fatally stabbed a competitor at a Texas high school track meet are calling more witnesses as a trial enters a second week

Closing arguments are planned Tuesday in a Texas courtroom in a trial involving the fatal stabbing of a student athlete at a school track meet last year

A new Treasury inspector general report raises concerns about Immigration and Customs Enforcement's ability to safeguard taxpayer information

A federal trial has begun in Los Angeles for the man accused of sparking last year’s deadly Palisades Fire

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Stadium workers near Los Angeles say they have reached a tentative contract deal, averting a strike ahead of the U.S. men’s soccer team’s opening World Cup match

Saudi Arabia sounds missile alert in area home to the Prince Sultan Air Base, which hosts US forces

Attorneys for the president of Wisconsin's largest mosque say he is being denied basic medical care for diabetes and has lost 30 pounds since he was taken into custody two months ago by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Researchers commissioned by President Joe Biden's Democratic administration to investigate alcohol-related health harms have released their findings independently

A federal appeals court has ruled that Alabama’s use of nitrogen gas to put prisoners to death needs more study of whether it violates a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment

Three more cases of the New World screwworm have been confirmed, including one outside Texas, demonstrating the difficulty of stopping a pest that could potentially devastate the nation’s cattle industry

Senators are warning that a key U.S. surveillance authority could expire this week after bipartisan opposition to President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the nation’s intelligence community derailed an extension effort

Bill Maher is set to receive the Mark Twain Award for American Humor at the Kennedy Center on June 28

After complaints about staffing cuts and long waits to get help at the Social Security Administration, its commissioner says things are getting a lot better

A Texas man is accused of using a fake boarding pass to get on a United Airlines flight and causing the plane to go back to the gate at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency official is set to testify in federal court about the U.S. government’s plans for refunding billions of dollars in tariffs that the Supreme Court ruled President Donald Trump imposed illegally

A federal judge has ruled that the man charged in the fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee on a North Carolina train cannot currently stand trial due to mental illness

Rob Sand rallied a crowd for the first time as the official Democratic nominee for Iowa governor on Sunday

Several female Navy officers say they see Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's recent intervention in a promotions list as a sign their careers now have a ceiling

U.S. consumers haven’t stopped spending since the Iran war drove up fuel prices

Iran has fired ballistic missiles and drones toward Bahrain and Kuwait, according to Bahrain’s government

A federal judge has sided with 20 Democratic states and halted an effort by the Trump administration to force states to comply with a range of conditions to get billions of dollars from the federal food aid program

Chuck Redd's attorneys say judge dismissed a breach of contract lawsuit.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has met with Sen. Bernie Sanders to discuss public ownership in AI companies — a meeting that highlighted the tension between AI powerhouses and policymakers

Retired Supreme Court Justice Louise Arbour has been installed as Canada’s new governor general

For more than two years, hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza and Lebanon have lived in dread of Avichay Adraee’s next social media post

Forecasters say Tropical Storm Cristina has formed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Nicaragua

China’s exports grew 19.4% in May from a year earlier, accelerating despite the Iran war

Artisans in Guangopolo, Ecuador, are struggling to keep the traditional craft of weaving horsehair sieves alive

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has arrived in Estonia to attend a summit of Nordic and Baltic leaders, amid tensions over Ukrainian drones straying into the region

Gunmen have abducted 39 people in northwest Nigeria who were meeting with the parents of a criminal leader

The United Nations’ mission in Afghanistan has expressed concern over arrests and detentions of women in western Afghanistan for allegedly not adhering to dress regulations

A pilot and co-pilot from the United States have died in a fiery plane crash in the Dominican Republic

Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have underscored their commitment to deepen cooperation in a closely watched summit

Kenya’s former Chief Justice David Maraga said he was arrested alongside other activists protesting planned construction inside Nairobi National Park

A wandering bear that scared residents of a Japanese city just north of Tokyo has been captured after several days of panic during which all schools were closed

A cholera outbreak in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state has killed 74 people and infected more than 7,000 others since it started in early May

Peru's presidential runoff has left the country without a clear winner

Police in Northern Ireland have arrested a man on suspicion of attempted murder after a violent knife attack in Belfast

The Hong Kong government is proposing to allow the city’s leader to classify certain criminal acts as national security offenses

Saudi Arabia sounds missile alert in area home to the Prince Sultan Air Base, which hosts US forces

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has claimed victory in the country’s Sunday general election, as preliminary results showed his governing Civil Contract party came first with 49.81% of the vote and should take a majority of seats in the parliament

Pope Leo XIV has called for respect for migrants' rights and international law during an address to the Spanish parliament

Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez has met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul for talks focused on deepening cooperation in trade, energy, and mining

A ship laden with 1,700 tons of food and other aid collected in Mexico and Belize has docked in Cuba to help ease the island’s crises

A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake has rocked the southern Philippines, killing at least 35 people

A crackdown by Afghan authorities on demonstrators in western Afghanistan has left at least three people injured, eyewitnesses say

The United States has placed travel bans on over 100 Nicaraguan officials and their families

The Vatican says that Pope Leo XIV has met with six survivors of clergy sexual abuse in Madrid and vowed to consider their suggestions for how the Catholic Church can improve its response to the crisis