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Florida officials will pay nearly half a million dollars to a biologist who was fired by a state agency for criticizing conservative activist Charlie Kirk on social media after his death.

President Donald Trump has stirred confusion by saying the U.S. will send an additional 5,000 American troops to Poland.

The House has rejected a proposal for a new Smithsonian American Women's History Museum on the National Mall.

A dying star has never looked so lovely. A telescope atop Hawaii's tallest peak, Mauna Kea, captured the star in its last gasps. The image was released Thursday.

Reducing Massachusetts residents' electric and gas bills has been a top priority on Beacon Hill this session.

The Montana Land Board voted Monday to overhaul the process it uses to evaluate land-swap proposals.

Colorado Democrats have voted overwhelmingly to censure the state's governor for commuting the prison sentence of an election conspiracy theorist.

Federal authorities in the United States have charged former Cuban President Raúl Castro and five fighter pilots in the 1996 downing of civilian planes operated by Miami-based exiles.

Investigators in New Mexico are trying to identify a mysterious substance that may have contributed to the deaths of three people.

Former Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan says he is suspending his campaign for Michigan governor citing an increasingly "toxic" political climate due to President Donald Trump's war with Iran and skyrocketing gas prices.