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A Kansas House member was arrested for possible misdemeanor battery in what authorities said Friday was an incident involving a student while he was substitute teaching at a public school in his hometown.

A California man who drove a pickup truck through a crowd protesting the death of George Floyd last year has agreed to plead guilty to federal firearms offenses, the Los Angeles U.S. Attorneys Office said Thursday.

A Florida man stabbed his parents and sister with a samurai sword early Wednesday morning, police said.

A sheriff's deputy bitten by a dog in southern Michigan killed the animal and then fatally shot the angry owner who confronted him with a knife, state police said Thursday.

Genetically modified mosquitoes are being released in the Florida Keys in an effort to combat persistent insectborne diseases such as Dengue fever and the Zika virus.

A contractor overseeing the Arizona Senate's unprecedented recount of 2.1 million ballots from the November election complied Thursday with a court order and released its policies for ensuring voter privacy and ballot secrecy.

Jordan's Prince Mohammad bin Talal, the younger bother of the late King Hussein who served as his crown prince for 10 years, died on Thursday at the age of 80, the royal palace said.

For at least the third time since the beginning of this year, the U.S. government is investigating a hack against federal agencies that began during the Trump administration but was only recently discovered, according to senior U.S. officials and private...

Health officials in Las Vegas reported six more cases of liver illness this week believed to be linked to a commercially marketed bottled water brand, Real Water, that faces a U.S. Food and Drug Administration probe and lawsuits by people alleging they we...

A Florida police officer who gunned down a Black motorist whose car had broken down six years ago could legally be convicted of both manslaughter and attempted firstdegree murder, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday.

An Idaho lawmaker facing rape allegations from a 19yearold intern refused to answer some questions during a legislative ethics hearing Wednesday after his attorney told him to invoke his constitutional right against selfincrimination.

In her five days as a Republican candidate for California governor, Caitlyn Jenner had a Twitter spat with a Democratic congressman, unveiled a website to sell Tshirts and other campaign swag and posted a photograph of herself with a startup business owne...

Massive US troop withdrawal since September 2020 have already created a security vacuum in the Afghanistan which has readily been exploited by the Taliban

Canada will send the armed forces and Red Cross to Ontario to help the country's most populous province as it struggles to cope with a surge in hospitalizations from COVID19, the country's public safety minister said on Monday.

PUBLIC HEALTH-LEADER DEPARTURES Map. CORRECTION. This graphic was updated by Kaiser Health News on April 26, 2021, to show Mason County, Washington, had only one health department departure scheduled as of the Dec. 15, 2020, story publication. The leader...

An Italian jury will next week begin deliberating the fate of two young American men on trial for the slaying of a Carabinieri police officer while they were vacationing in Rome in 2019.