A lawsuit in battleground Wisconsin seeks to legalize a once-popular practice of fusion voting, where the same candidate could appear on the ballot as nominated by multiple political parties. All of …
A federal appeals court has paused a judge’s order to bring a Turkish Tufts University student from a Louisiana immigration detention center back to New England so it can consider an emergency …
Several moments were pivotal in Pope Francis’ relations with Native communities in the Americas. In Bolivia in 2015, he asked for forgiveness for Catholic complicity in colonialism. Later that year …
Whoever succeeds Pope Francis will inherit his momentous and controversial legacy of relations with Indigenous people throughout the Americas. Francis, who died April 21, apologized for the …
Five decades after the end of the U.S.-led war in Vietnam, Asian American and Pacific Islander veterans are reflecting on the life-changing ordeal that was at time made more complicated by their …
An SUV crashed into a crowd at a Filipino heritage festival in Vancouver over the weekend, killing 11 people and injuring dozens of others in the latest bloody car ramming attack across the globe. …
The Trump administration says it's launching investigations into Harvard University and the Harvard Law Review. The administration says officials have received reports of race-based discrimination …
A historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.'s final stand has suffered a devastating fire. Clayborn Temple was central to the 1968 sanitation …
A man who has served nearly three decades on death row in Louisiana has had his conviction overturned by a judge. Lawyers for Jimmie Duncan argued that a review of forensic evidence found that bite …
A speedboat went airborne and did a complete backward flip while racing at about 200 mph before crashing into Lake Havasu. Two racers inside the boat’s covered cabin survived Saturday's crash, …
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has signed a law aimed at preventing future school shootings like the one that killed two students and two teachers in September at the Apalachee High School. Richard …
NASA's oldest full-time astronaut is back home and doing well a week after wrapping up a seven-month space mission. Don Pettit marked his 70th birthday on April 20 by plunging through the atmosphere …
A woman in Kansas City, Missouri, has pleaded not guilty in the fatal stabbing of a paramedic as she was being taken to a hospital in an ambulance. Court records say 39-year-old Shanetta Bossell was …
The upper Midwest is bracing for severe thunderstorms with the potential for strong tornadoes. The National Weather Service says the highest risks Monday are in portions of southern Minnesota, …
Members of New Jersey’s Supreme Court sounded skeptical at times about the effort of a Catholic diocese to stop the state from empaneling a grand jury to investigate clergy sexual abuse …
Season 2 of the “Star Wars” series “Andor” gives major depth and breadth to the women who play key supporting roles. The next three episodes that drop on Disney+ on Tuesday shows the internal …
Schoolchildren threatened with eviction are more likely to end up in another district or transfer to another school. They’re more likely to miss school, and those who end up transferring are …
Several people were injured in Florida when a boat crashed into a ferry and then fled the scene off the Memorial Causeway Bridge. The Clearwater Police Department posted on X that there were multiple …
Scrutiny of a welfare program that is the signature initiative of Florida first lady Casey DeSantis is threatening to undermine a potential run to succeed her husband as governor, as well as his own …
For hundreds of communities nationwide, plans to protect against natural disasters and climate change have been upended because of the Trump administration's elimination of a federal grant program. …