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The man accused of fatally shooting two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington as they left an event at a Jewish museum told police after his arrest, "I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza," federal authorities said Thursday in ...

The proposal has widespread support from the public, but many critics say it would come with an enormous cost to the government while doing little to help the workers who need it most.

Detained activist Mahmoud Khalil was allowed to hold his son for the first time after a judge blocked the Trump administration's efforts to keep the father and infant separated by a plexiglass divider.

The aircraft appeared to strike at least one home and smash through half a dozen vehicles.

Government vaccine advisers are meeting to decide if the recipe for COVID-19 vaccines needs updating for this fall and winter.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Trump administration says making cents doesn't make sense anymore. The U.S. Mint has made its final order of penny blanks and plans to stop producing the coin when those run out, a Treasury Department official confirmed ...

A fire that severely damaged a historic Black church that served as the headquarters for a 1968 sanitation workers' strike, which brought the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis, was intentionally set, investigators said Wednesday.

The U.S. is on track to see more tornadoes this year than in 2024, which was the second-busiest tornado year on record.

The outcome keeps in place an Oklahoma court decision that invalidated a vote by a state charter school board to approve the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, which would have been the nation's first religious charter school. But it ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will preview the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season Thursday, as the agency is facing staffing cuts that some worry will affect its forecasting capacity.