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Mississippi's Republican-led Senate has voted against confirming longtime educator Robert P.

A spate of threats and false reports of shooters have been pouring into schools and colleges across the country for months, raising concerns among law enforcement and elected leaders.

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has signed a bill banning gender-affirming care for minors.

Twitter says it has removed tweets showing a poster promoting a ‘Trans Day of Vengeance’ protest in support of transgender rights in Washington, D.

A protester arrested for disrupting West Virginia lawmakers as they moved to ban abortion last September will see all charges dropped against her — if she stays out of trouble for the next six months.

A California lawmaker wants to end a ban on state-funded travel to states with discriminatory LGBTQ laws.

The Minneapolis City Council is set to hold a special meeting to discuss a potential settlement in a lawsuit filed by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights over the city’s policing practices after the murder of George Floyd.

The man who inspired the film “Hotel Rwanda” and was freed by Rwanda last week from a terrorism sentence has returned to the United States and has joined his family.

Prosecutors have charged seven California Highway Patrol officers and a nurse with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the 2020 death of a man who screamed “I can’t breathe” while multiple officers restrained him as they tried to take a blood sample.

Gwyneth Paltrow’s live-streamed trial over a 2016 ski collision at a posh Utah resort has drawn worldwide attention, spawned memes, and sparked debate about the burden and power of celebrity.

Details from the rich, full lives of the three adults killed Monday at a Nashville elementary school have quickly emerged.

A judge has ordered the U.S. government to resume regular oil and gas lease sales on federal lands in North Dakota.

The U.S. Energy Department said Wednesday it has a new strategy to help meet the nation’s goals to vastly expand offshore wind energy.

Oil companies including Chevron and ExxonMobil offered a combined $264 million for drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico in a sale mandated by last year’s climate bill compromise.

The leader of California’s reparations task force said it won't take a stance on how much the state should compensate individual Black residents.

Public outrage is swift following mass shootings such as the one that killed six people at a Nashville elementary school.

Around the U.S., private schools generally do not face as many requirements as public schools for developing security plans.

In the federal budget standoff, the majority of U.S. adults are asking lawmakers to pull off the impossible: Cut the overall size of government, but also devote more money to the most popular and expensive programs.

Here’s some of what we know and don’t know about the deadly shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville.

The U.S. gambling industry is adopting a new responsible marketing code that will ban sports books from partnering with colleges to promote sports wagering.

Just years after labor activists persuaded a handful of states to raise their minimum wage to $15 per hour, workers initially thrilled with the pay bump are finding their hard-won gains erased by inflation.

Nearly two tons of ground beef is being recalled because it may be contaminated with bacteria.

In response to rising youth violence, Baltimore leaders are ramping up efforts to de-escalate conflicts between young people and protect students going to and from school.

A new study says warming will fuel more supercells in the United States and that those storms will move eastward from their current range.