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It took a big money push from the Republican Party, tweets by the president and the support of the state's current and former governors, but the GOP held onto an Arizona U.S. House seat they would have never considered endangered in any other year. More>>
A string of crashes involving Amtrak trains is rekindling memories for survivors of the passenger service's deadliest accident ever. More>>
Rapper Meek Mill has attended an NBA playoff game in his first public appearance since being released from prison while he appeals decade-old gun and drug convictions. More>>
A panel tasked with reforming college basketball says the NCAA should work to end the one-and-done era and punish coaches and programs that cheat more harshly. More>>
Authorities say two Dallas police officers were escorting a man from a home improvement store when he shot them and a store employee. More>>
Acquaintances and relatives say suspect in rifle attack on a Tennessee Waffle House had begun showing erratic behavior years before the shooting rampage. More>>
U.S. officials say that reports of sexual assaults across the military jumped by about 10 percent in 2017, a year that saw a massive nude-photo sharing scandal rock the services. More>>
AP-NORC Poll: Younger Americans less apt to use unique passwords across online services _ or to write them down on paper. More>>
A man who disarmed a gunman accused of killing four people at a Nashville Waffle House has received a standing ovation from Tennessee lawmakers. More>>
A county sheriff in Maine says a deputy has been shot and killed following a report of a robbery at a convenience store. More>>
Jurors at Bill Cosby's sexual assault retrial are poised to start deliberating after a marathon day of closing arguments. More>>
Pop star Madonna has lost her battle to prevent an auction of her personal items, including a love letter from her ex-boyfriend, the late rapper Tupac Shakur. More>>
Las Vegas Strip headliner David Copperfield is due to return to the witness stand in a lawsuit by a British tourist who claims he was seriously hurt in a fall while taking part in one of Copperfield's signature illusions in 2013. More>>
Cities and even countries now such as Great Britain are looking at banning straws because plastic pollution is a huge global problem. More>>
A woman who played a key role in exposing the lead-tainted water disaster in Flint, Michigan, is among seven people to win a Goldman Environmental Prize for grassroots environmental activism. More>>
Harley-Davidson is offering free motorcycles for those who join its paid summer internship program. More>>
Attorneys for a condemned Texas prisoner are asking the US Supreme Court to halt his execution for killing a young girl and her grandmother in 2008. More>>
Tens of thousands of Arizona teachers are poised to walk off the job this week to demand more funding for public education. More>>
Doctors at a Baltimore hospital have performed the most extensive penis transplant to date, this one also involving the scrotum and part of the abdominal wall. More>>
Former President George H.W. Bush's hospitalization a day after his wife Barbara's funeral has raised questions about whether stress or a broken heart played a role. More>>
Children with a rare, incurable disease that causes rapid aging and early death may live longer if treated with an experimental drug first developed for cancer patients. More>>
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on underage use of a popular e-cigarette brand called Juul after months of complaints from parents, politicians and school administrators. More>>
Opioid overdoses killed 1,354 Americans ages 65 and older in 2016, but Medicare doesn't cover the oldest proven treatment for opioid addiction: methadone. More>>
A California State University, Fresno professor who called Barbara Bush "an amazing racist" and cheered her death won't be punished. More>>
One of five black women golfers who say they were told to leave a Pennsylvania club says it felt like they were "playing with targets on our backs.". More>>
For the first time, Facebook spells out how it decides whether to delete your posts. More>>
Arizona policymakers have not agreed on how to increase teacher pay or education funding ahead of a statewide walkout this week. More>>
Until last week, Southwest Airlines had a string of 47 years without a passenger dying in an accident, but it has also paid millions in fines over safety. More>>
A Democratic newcomer is looking to pull off an upset victory for an open U.S. House seat in Arizona that has been held by Republicans since the early 1980s. More>>
New federal data show that black students continue to be expelled and suspended from school much more frequently than their white peers. More>>
Authorities say two Dallas police officers have been critically wounded in a shooting outside a home improvement store. More>>
Bill Cosby's sexual assault retrial will soon be in the hands of a jury. More>>
An actress best known for playing a young Superman's friend has been granted bail while fighting charges that she helped recruit women into a cult-like group. More>>
Authorities found a BMW stolen from a Nashville area car dealer at an apartment complex last week but say they didn't figure out who the culprit was until tragedy had struck. More>>
Bill Cosby has arrived at a suburban Philadelphia courthouse for the 12th day of his sexual assault retrial, and closing arguments and deliberations are expected. More>>
Waffle House gunman's erratic behavior began years before Tennessee restaurant attack. More>>
A new scientific study shows that gun deaths have fallen in California over a 16-year period ending in 2015. More>>
A Northern California city has agreed to pay $2.65 million to the family of a mentally ill Gulf War veteran fatally shot by police in 2014 after his family called 911. More>>
A commission tasked with investigating government actions surrounding the Florida high school massacre and the state's other mass shootings is set to hold its first meeting. More>>
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is pushing lawmakers to approve big teacher raises as school districts make plans to close if educators who call his proposal insufficient launch the first-ever statewide strike this week. More>>
A 31-year-old Texas inmate is set for execution for the fatal shootings of a 5-year-old girl and her grandmother who were celebrating another child's birthday at their Fort Worth apartment 10 years ago. More>>
Two former allies of former Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie are going to try and convince a federal appeals court their convictions in the George Washington Bridge lane-closing case should be reversed. More>>
A statue has been unveiled honoring 19 members of a firefighting team known as the Granite Mountain Hotshots who died in a 2013 Arizona wildfire. More>>
A spokesman says former President George H.W. Bush is eager to get well so he can get to his summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine. More>>
The Centers for Disease Control is expanding a warning about contaminated lettuce from Arizona that has now sickened dozens of people in several states. More>>
Family spokesman: Former President George H.W. Bush is still "responding and recovering" as doctors treat him for an infection. More>>
About a dozen tractor-trailers lined up beneath a Detroit-area freeway overpass to aid police trying to help a man contemplating suicide. More>>
Prince's siblings have sued the Illinois hospital that treated the superstar when he nearly died from a drug overdose a week before his death. More>>
California Democrats worry their packed fields of candidates in several U.S. House races could hurt them in the state's top-two primary system. More>>
Officials in Republican-dominant states are pushing legislation ahead of midterm elections that would punish both doctors and patients for abortions. More>>
A Virginia man whose toddler daughter's body was found in a suitcase next to train tracks in New Jersey earlier this month is now facing charges. More>>
Lawyers for the family of a black man killed by police in a busy Southern California parking say an autopsy found he was shot 10 times and died from choking on his own blood as police delayed getting him medical help. More>>
The Senate narrowly confirmed President Donald Trump's choice of a tea party congressman to run NASA. More>>
Gunman suspected of attacking a Waffle House lost Illinois firearms license after exhibiting erratic behavior. More>>
A U.S. appeals court has ruled in a case over selfies taken by a monkey that lawsuits can't be filed claiming animals have copyrights to photos. More>>
An Alabama police department says it's investigating after video showed a black woman being knocked down by police and arrested inside a restaurant. More>>
Michigan State maintained ties to volleyball coach accused of raping young athletes. More>>
A family spokesman says former President George H.W. Bush has been hospitalized in Houston with an infection, just after attending the funeral of his wife Barbara. More>>
Prosecutors have charged the brother of an unarmed black man who was shot to death by Sacramento police with misdemeanor assault and vandalism. More>>
Well-connected Atlanta attorney convicted by jury of murder in shooting death of wealthy business executive wife. More>>
Bill Cosby's lawyers and publicists are increasingly playing to the court of public opinion as his sexual assault retrial heads toward deliberations. More>>
A jury has found an Atlanta attorney who fatally shot his wife guilty of murder and influencing witnesses. More>>
Documents show that Oregon child welfare officials knew the family in an SUV that plunged off a California cliff had faced a child abuse investigation in another state when it looked into allegations in 2013. More>>
Former professional wrestling champion Bruno Sammartino has been laid to rest in Pennsylvania, where he was remembered as one of the sport's good guys. More>>
In a district Donald Trump won by 21 points in 2016, a Democratic newcomer is trying to pull off an upset victory for an open U.S. House seat. More>>
Americans overwhelmingly think that teachers aren't paid enough, and half said they'd even support higher taxes to get them raises. More>>
Cincinnati officials plan changes at emergency call center under scrutiny after failed response to trapped teen who died in minivan after calling 911. More>>
Authorities say they have arrested a man suspected of storming a Waffle House restaurant in Nashville and fatally shooting four people with an assault rifle. More>>
A judge in Arizona has declared a mistrial in the case of a U.S. Border Patrol agent after a jury acquitted him of a second-degree murder charge in the killing of a teenager but deadlocked on lesser counts of manslaughter. More>>
A Navajo Code Talker who used his native language to confound the Japanese in World War II has died. More>>
A woman being held in Texas on charges that she killed two people in separate states, including her husband, will likely be sent to Florida for prosecution. More>>
A new memorial is opening to honor thousands of people killed in racist lynchings. More>>
The man who wrestled the gun away from the Nashville's Waffle House shooting suspect says he decided if he was to die, gunman would "have to work to kill me.". More>>
The United States is shutting down routine operations at its embassy in Nicaragua and pulling out some if its employees amid a string of deadly protests. More>>
3 members of the notorious MS-13 gang have been convicted of racketeering and murder. More>>
Recent showers temporarily relieved drought conditions in parts of the southwestern United States, but dry weather will persist through the summer. More>>
The Denver Post's cry for help in the form of an editorial pleading for new ownership resonated nationally. More>>
State wildlife officials say they uncovered an international plant heist involving thieves from Korea and China slipping into Northern California's wild landscapes to pluck succulents they then sell in a thriving black market in Asia. More>>
The judge in Bill Cosby's sexual assault retrial won't allow his lawyers to introduce testimony they say would shed light on the possible motivation of the comedian's chief accuser. More>>
Regulators are reviewing a whistleblower's claims that Ohio's largest online charter school used new software that it installed in 2016 to intentionally inflate attendance figures. More>>
NASA's newest planet-hunting spacecraft is back on the pad for another shot at launch. More>>
A British cybersecurity expert once hailed as a hero for stopping a computer virus will be in federal court in Milwaukee to try to weaken a criminal case against him by having his post-arrest statements tossed. More>>
US panel says a medicine made from the marijuana plant should be approved to treat severe epileptic seizures in children. More>>
An Albuquerque woman who died after an in-flight accident on a Southwest Airlines plane will be remembered at a memorial service. More>>
Fifty years ago this week, students occupied five buildings at New York's Columbia University and shut down the Ivy League campus in a protest over racism and the Vietnam war. More>>
Eighteen Syracuse University students face disciplinary charges after videos emerged showing fraternity members using racial slurs and simulating a sexual assault of a disabled person. More>>
"A Quiet Place" and "Rampage" are fighting it out again for the top spot at the domestic box office this weekend and easily beating newcomers like Amy Schumer's "I Feel Pretty" and "Super Troopers 2.". More>>
Shipwreck hunters say they may have found the remains of a schooner that went down in Lake Erie nearly two centuries ago. More>>
Actor Verne Troyer from the "Austin Powers" films has died at age 49. More>>
The public education uprisings that began in West Virginia and spread to Arizona, Oklahoma and Kentucky share similar origin stories. More>>
Authorities say the suspect in a deadly shooting at a restaurant in Nashville was arrested last year by the U.S. Secret Service for being in a restricted area near the White House. More>>
A prominent biomedical ethics expert predicts that in 20 to 40 years, many parents will choose babies from dozens of embryos, after examining DNA information on each. More>>
A measure approved by Maryland lawmakers would create more transparency for online political ads on social media platforms like Facebook to help stop foreign influence in the state's elections. More>>
A disgraced former Arizona legislator accused of killing a man in southeast Alaska in 2016 is scheduled to stand trial, starting this week. More>>
Syracuse University has permanently expelled a fraternity over an offensive video that fraternity members say was intended as satire. More>>
Mitt Romney has one of the best-known names in politics, but he still must face down nearly a dozen Utah contenders in his bid to restart his political career with a U.S. Senate seat. More>>
Police in Tennessee say three people were killed and four were injured in a shooting at a Waffle House restaurant early Sunday. More>>
Bill Cosby's lawyers and publicists are increasingly playing to the court of public opinion as his sexual assault retrial heads toward deliberations. More>>
The man who wrestled the gun away from the Nashville's Waffle House shooting suspect says he decided if he was to die, gunman would "have to work to kill me.". More>>
A homeless man has been charged with murder in the death of a California father who was stabbed in the neck as his 5-year-old daughter sat in his lap in a crowded beachside steakhouse. More>>
Investigative files in Prince's death show that members of his inner circle were growing increasingly alarmed about an opioid addition as his health waned in the final days of his life, and that they sought help. More>>
A Virginia photographer who won the Pulitzer Prize for a photo of a fatal car attack the day of a white nationalist rally is the latest in a series of newspaper employees who have won journalism's top honor but left the struggling industry. More>>
Where are The Waldos? Not far from the San Francisco Bay Area high school where in 1971 the five buddies' search for a marijuana patch gave birth to the term 420, now the date for marijuana's high holiday and universal slang for smoking weed. More>>
A San Antonio charter school has apologized after a teacher asked students in an eighth grade American history class to list the positive and negative aspects of slavery. More>>
An entrepreneur wants to bring a global trend to the U.S. and put commercial airport terminals in the hands of private companies instead of the government. More>>
As the outpouring of tributes continues for Barbara Bush, the general public can pay its respects to the former first lady. More>>
A new memorial is opening to honor thousands of people killed in racist lynchings. More>>
Guests have begun to arrive at St. Martin's Church in Houston for the funeral of former first lady Barbara Bush. More>>
The manufacturer of the jet engine involved in a fatal Southwest Airlines accident Tuesday wants more jets to be inspected for potential problems. More>>
A monument honoring a secret World War II spy mission could still find a home in the United States after a North Carolina town rejected the statue because of current tensions between the U.S. and Russia. More>>
A gunman carrying a shotgun in a guitar case opened fire at a Florida high school, wounding one student as other students and teachers piled desks and cabinets against classroom doors to make barricades. More>>
Mitt Romney has been forced into a Republican primary for a U.S. Senate seat in Utah as he looks to restart his political career by replacing long-serving Sen. Orrin Hatch. More>>
President Donald Trump's lawyer, whose office was raided by the FBI last week, is seeking to delay a court case brought by a porn actress who claims she had an affair with the president. More>>
Thousands of marijuana enthusiasts flocked to San Francisco's Golden Gate Park for the annual April 20 high holiday that culminated with the crowd sparking up at 4:20 p.m. More>>
Kansas officials have issued a new fiscal forecast that boosts projected tax collections by a total of $540 million through June 2019. More>>
Another wave of school walkouts is expected as students honor victims of gun violence and push for gun control. More>>
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens has been charged with a felony related to his use of a charity donor list for his 2016 political campaign. More>>
Study suggests warming, not cooling, donated livers may improve organ transplants. More>>
The Kushner Cos. is confirming it was subpoenaed by federal prosecutors for information related to an Associated Press report that the company filed dozens of false documents about its buildings in New York City. More>>
California billionaire Tom Steyer is spending millions of his own money on a campaign to impeach President Donald Trump, but many Democratic candidates are shying away from that idea. More>>
A man who investigators say killed two sheriff's deputies in rural north Florida was a mystery figure to many in the small agricultural community rocked by the shooting. More>>
As the outpouring of tributes continues for Barbara Bush, the general public can pay its respects to the former first lady. More>>
Authorities say one student shot another in the ankle at a Florida high school and a suspect is in custody. More>>
A federal judge in Los Angeles has told lawyers for President Donald Trump's attorney Michael Cohen that he needs to file a declaration in court in order to delay a lawsuit filed by porn actress Stormy Daniels. More>>
Wildlife managers in the American Southwest say a once-rare bat important to the pollination of plants used to produce tequila has made a comeback and is being removed from the U.S. endangered species list. More>>
Bill Cosby's lawyers are scrambling to make sure jurors at his sexual assault retrial hear from accuser Andrea Constand's confidante before deliberations get underway next week. More>>
A judge has ruled a high school student in Maine who fled his native Zambia can compete in a government-funded national poetry contest. More>>
Southwest offers apology and compensation to passengers involved in emergency landing incident. More>>
USA Gymnastics has reached a confidential settlement in a Georgia lawsuit that spurred a newspaper's investigation into the organization's child abuse reporting practices. More>>
The federal government wants to judge to toss a lawsuit from fishermen trying to eliminate former President Barack Obama's Atlantic Ocean monument. More>>
Americans are largely pessimistic about U.S. relations with Russia and China in the next year, and despite signs of diplomatic progress with Kim Jong Un over nuclear weapons, nearly half also expect things to get worse with North Korea. More>>
Arizona teachers have voted to walk off the job to demand increased school funding. More>>
Woman suspected of killing her husband in Minnesota and a woman in Florida captured at a South Texas resort. More>>
Authorities identify dead shooter of two Florida sheriff's deputies were fatally shot through the window of a Chinese restaurant. More>>
The driver of a semitrailer packed with at least 39 immigrants, 10 of whom died, has been sentenced to life in prison for making the deadly smuggling run. More>>
A spray of flowers covers the closed silver casket of former first lady Barbara Bush in the sanctuary of the Houston church where mourners are waiting to pay their final respects. More>>
The killing of a homeless man from the Navajo Nation in Albuquerque is again exposing the heightened threats and dangers many say Native Americans coping with homelessness face in New Mexico's largest city. More>>
A fraternity suspended at New York's Syracuse University over an offensive video says the activities were intended as a "satirical sketch.". More>>
Barbara Bush came up with the idea of focusing on literacy as first lady during a jog in 1978, the year her husband considered his first run for president. More>>
A 26-year-old Michigan mother accused of leaving her 11-month-old twin daughters in a suitcase along a curb with trash has been charged with child abuse. More>>
US airline regulators have ordered inspections on engine fan blades like the one that snapped off a Southwest Airlines plane, leading to the death of a woman who was partially blown out a window. More>>
Two black men arrested at a Philadelphia Starbucks where they were waiting for a business meeting say they wonder how an everyday encounter could escalate into a police confrontation that left them fearing for their lives. More>>
Some Illinois lawmakers want to give extra money to schools that replace armed security officers with unarmed social workers and behavior therapists. More>>
Undeterred by immigration politics, the 2018 National Teacher of the Year leads a Washington state classroom for refugees that runs on the same promise that's bestowed upon children and fuels newcomers to the American dream. More>>
Married patients with melanoma are slightly more likely to be diagnosed in earlier more treatable stages than unmarried patients. More>>
While students across US plan walkouts for Columbine anniversary, a quiet day of service planned for students at Colorado school. More>>
Alabama man convicted in 1989 mail-bomb slaying of federal judge is executed, oldest prisoner put to death in US since it resumed carrying out the death penalty in 1970s. More>>
The potential for Arizona teachers to launch a first-ever statewide strike has school districts and parents making contingency plans despite a lack of clarity about what may happen and when. More>>
Los Angeles County sheriff's investigators say a 16-year-old who was part of a search party looking for a missing high school sports star led the group to discover the boy's body but investigators suspect he was the person who fatally stabbed him. More>>
The memorials to former first lady Barbara Bush have begun with a celebration of her life in front of Houston's City Hall. More>>
Federal authorities have doubled the reward to $20,000 for information on the theft of hundreds of explosives from a worksite in Pennsylvania. More>>
US health officials propose steps to improve the government's oversight of medical devices. More>>
A two-year probe into the overdose death of music superstar Prince is reaching a critical stage as a county prosecutor reveals whether criminal charges will be filed. More>>
Minnesota woman suspected of killing her husband, then a woman in southwest Florida captured at a South Texas resort. More>>
Bill Cosby's lawyers have turned to their star witness in the comedian's sexual assault retrial. More>>
A Minnesota doctor accused of illegally prescribing an opioid for Prince a week before the musician died has agreed to pay $30,000 to settle a federal civil claim. More>>
Inmate convicted in mail-bomb death of a federal judge killed in 1989 is set to be executed as the oldest prisoner put to death in US in modern times. More>>
Employees of an LA Fitness in New Jersey wrongly accused a black member and his guest of not paying to work out and called police, prompting an apology from the company. More>>
Alabama has executed the oldest U.S. inmate to be put to death in modern times, an 83-year-old man convicted of a federal judge's 1989 mail-bomb slaying. More>>
A federal appeals court in Chicago has ruled that President Donald Trump's administration cannot withhold public safety grants from cities that don't cooperate with its immigration enforcement. More>>
A witness is recounting the dramatic rescue of a woman trapped on top her vehicle surrounded by rushing floodwaters in northern Montana. More>>
The judge in Bill Cosby's sexual assault retrial is rejecting the defense's fifth bid for a mistrial. More>>
San Francisco authorities reversed a decision to remove a 19th century statue near City Hall that some say is degrading to Native Americans. More>>
The Southwest Airlines pilot being lauded as a hero in an emergency landing after a passenger was partly blown out of the jet's damaged fuselage is also being hailed for her pioneering role in aviation. More>>
Authorities say a casino dealer identified as the suspect in a deadly company picnic shooting on Sunday has been arrested in a small town in the Texas Panhandle. More>>
A Texas company that owns an oil pipeline that spilled 140,000 gallons (53,000 liters) of crude along the Santa Barbara coast faces a criminal trial three years after the disaster. More>>
A Texas firefighter on the Southwest Airlines flight that made an emergency landing in Philadelphia says his wife gave him the OK to aid a woman who had been partially blown through a damaged window. More>>
A fire has heavily damaged a lodge at the base of Idaho's Sun Valley ski resort. More>>
Police: Indiana man charged after 3-year-old daughter accidentally shoots pregnant mother with a loaded gun he'd left in her car. More>>
Philadelphia's police commissioner is apologizing to two black men who were arrested at a Starbucks in the city. More>>
A student who led a two-day demonstration outside of his central Michigan high school says it was in response to the unpunished theft of a Confederate battle flag from his pickup truck. More>>
Protesters at New York's Syracuse University have demanded that the school release video showing racist and sexist behavior by members of a now-suspended fraternity. More>>
Police documents say a couple who recently moved to Utah from Switzerland planned together a murder suicide that left their family of four dead, including buying sleeping pills researching gunshot wounds. More>>
Authorities say thieves made off with 8,000 Disneyland tickets when they stole a box trailer from a youth agricultural education organization. More>>
A Texas prosecutor says an imprisoned former nurse who authorities believe could be responsible for the deaths of up to 60 children has confessed in the past to killing children in her care. More>>
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