A helicopter flying over the Mississippi River ran into a powerline then crashed into a barge and sparked a fire, killing two people. Cpl. Dallas Thompson of the Missouri State Highway Patrol says …
A judge is stopping government contractors in five states from sending hazardous waste to a Michigan landfill. The decision Tuesday follows a year of legal challenges by Detroit-area communities …
Jen Pawol is set to make history as the first female umpire in more than 150 years of Major League Baseball. She received the long-awaited call while in her hotel room in Nashville, Tennessee, and …
News Media Corp., an Illinois-based publisher, has announced the abrupt closure of dozens of newspapers across five states due to financial problems. The company said Thursday that it will shut down …
Authorities say a shooting and subsequent explosion and fire in a house in western Iowa left two people dead and a third critically injured. Dispatchers on Wednesday night received reports of a …
The Associated Press college football poll started in 1936, the brainchild of former sports editor Alan J. Gould. The number of teams ranked, the number of voters on the panel and how the ballots are …
Federal judge orders temporary halt to construction of Florida immigration detention center dubbed 'Alligator Alcatraz.'
Six soldiers at a Georgia Army base are being hailed as heroes for tackling an armed assailant accused of shooting five people. Officials say Sgt. Quornelius Radford used a personal handgun to shoot …
Hundreds of Harvard researchers have fallen victim to the freeze on funding by the Trump administration. The halt in federal funding has meant some of the world’s most prominent researchers …
GAZA STRIP (AP) — This photo gallery, curated by AP photo editors, shows Palestinians scrambling to get humanitarian aid that was airdropped by parachutes into Zawaida and Netzarim in the …
ESPN has announced its new streaming service will launch Aug. 21. This move comes as streaming surpasses cable and broadcast in U.S. TV usage. ESPN hopes to attract cord-cutters with a $29.95 monthly …
The U.S. has begun officially levying higher taxes on imports from dozens of countries Thursday, four months after President Donald Trump first announced plans to impose tariffs on most of the world …
Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against a Tennessee man charged with killing the parents, grandmother and uncle of an infant found abandoned in a home’s front yard. The decision was …
The Kremlin says a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump has been agreed. The announcement Thursday came on the eve of a White House deadline for Moscow to …
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best picture yet of a high-speed comet visiting our solar system from another star. NASA and the European Space Agency released the latest photos Thursday. …
New research reveals that an inconic Argentine glacier is undergoing its most significant retreat in a century. The Perito Moreno Glacier in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field has started losing …
Our shelter accounts for one of our biggest personal climate impacts. How we heat and cool our homes, wash and dry our clothes, get our electricity and heat our water each has its own carbon …
President Donald Trump has repeatedly delivered for the conservative Christians who form the bedrock of his Republican support. While Trump has made overtures to other religious groups, his Christian …
A new federal report finds that most Americans get more than half their calories from ultraprocessed foods. Overall, about 55% of calories consumed by Americans older than age 1 came from …
Roblox, the online gaming platform wildly popular with children and teenagers, is rolling out an open-source version of an artificial intelligence system it says can help preemptively detect …