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More than 500 incoming students at Howard University have learned this week that they have been unenrolled from the Washington, D.C., school and no longer have spots for the upcoming fall semester that begins Aug. 17 ...

A prominent Supreme Court litigator has been sentenced to six years in prison for evading a multimillion-dollar IRS tax debt and engaging in mortgage fraud in a case that cast a spotlight on his secretive lifestyle as a high-stakes poker player ...

An attorney for the family of a man who was shot and killed by Madison police says Corey Ruiz's death was unjustified and unconstitutional ...

Forecasters say Hurricane Fausto has strengthened into a Category 2 storm in the Pacific Ocean and is expected to approach the Hawaiian Islands next week ...

A man has been arrested after police said he stabbed two men in separate, nonfatal attacks on Manhattan's Upper West Side ...

As officials review widely circulated bystander videos of the fatal police shooting of a homeless man in Madison, Wisconsin, one key perspective won't be emerging: footage from the officers' body-worn cameras ...

A man using a wheelchair was struggling to get across six lanes of traffic on an Arkansas roadway when help came in an unexpected way -- from a spidery superhero in a Jeep ...

The Trump administration is seeking to rename Manhattan's Penn Station as part of a planned $8 billion redesign of the country's busiest transit hub ...

A teenager accused of killing four people at Apalachee High School in Georgia is due in court for a plea and sentencing hearing ...

Democrats are expected to recommend the states that will hold the first presidential nominating contests in 2028, likely cementing a calendar that moves away from Iowa and New Hampshire in favor of more racially diverse states ...