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Louisiana is the only state where public school student reading and math scores have risen above pre-pandemic levels.

U.S.-Iran diplomacy showed signs of continuing at a steady pace Tuesday as mediators in Qatar exchanged proposals with Tehran's interior minister in Doha, while the wider war rippled across the U.K., Yemen and Saudi Arabia.

Federal authorities have arrested and charged a 30-year-old from Washington state in connection with a February school shooting in British Columbia.

A day after President Donald Trump said he would start paying for controversial taxpayer-funded ads with a campaign account, there's no sign he plans to refund the millions of federal dollars already spent on them.

A hearing for Kilmar Abrego Garcia which was expected to determine whether the man mistakenly sent by the Trump administration to El Salvador would be deported to Liberia was abruptly canceled Tuesday for reasons that were not immediately clear.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday plans to highlight a $3.7 billion investment by the military technology company Anduril to build components for nuclear-powered submarines at a Baltimore-area shipyard.

Three friends of Nolan Wells, a Black college student who went missing from a Mississippi island during a Fourth of July celebration and was later found dead, are suing NFL Hall of Famer Terrell Owens for defamation.

Florida center Aleksander Barkov is expected to miss six to eight weeks with a left leg injury and will not require surgery, Panthers coach Paul Maurice said Tuesday.

U.S. military bases on Okinawa will be on lockdown for 48 hours starting Wednesday for what officials call an "operational pause" after a Marine was arrested in connection with the death of a local woman.

No disciplinary action will be taken against Big Ten officials who worked the Maryland-Nebraska football game or against Cornhuskers coach Matt Rhule for his postgame criticism of the crew, a conference spokesman said Tuesday.