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The eruption of Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano has temporarily knocked off power to the world’s premier station that measures heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

The soulful singer of Fleetwood Mac died suddenly at the age of 79.

The world’s largest volcano is oozing rivers of glowing lava and drawing thousands of awestruck viewers who jammed a Hawaii highway that could soon be covered by the flow.

What many Americans hoped would be the first normal holiday season in three years has instead been thrown into crisis by inflation, with Christmas on the horizon.

A celery stalk sighting and a little luck came together to help a New Hampshire man find his wife’s wedding rings in a 20-ton trash trailer, wrapped in a napkin that he had accidentally thrown away.

A twister roaring out of the early morning darkness ripped through a small Alabama community, killing two during an outbreak of tornadoes in the South.

Only scattered challenges to certification of the midterm election have been reported in the United States, and not a single one is based on any problems with the accuracy of the results.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has visited the memorial outside a gay club where five people were killed in a shooting attack last week.

Closing arguments slated for Thursday in The Trump Organization’s tax fraud case could clock in at seven hours, or more.

Despite assurances that lava from Hawaii's Mauna Loa isn't threatening communities, some residents are remaining vigilant.

Six families are mourning loved ones who were killed in the mass shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia.

Postdoctoral scholars and academic researchers on Tuesday reached a tentative labor agreement with the University of California.

The Justice Department is making a rare intervention to try to bring improvements in the beleaguered water system in the Mississippi capital city.

A woman who family members believe was the toddler who was kidnapped 51 years ago has been reunited with her family in Fort Worth.

A Kansas lawmaker who was forced out of one of the state Senate’s most powerful jobs following a drunken driving arrest is planning to leave the Legislature in early January.

A Walmart employee who survived the mass shooting at a store in Virginia has filed a $50 million lawsuit against the company.

A federal appeals court has upheld the extortion and fraud convictions of a once-celebrated young Massachusetts mayor who was found guilty of extorting hundreds of thousands of dollars from marijuana businesses.

A new study finds that few Americans have heard of MyPlate, the government diet guide that replaced the long-standing food pyramid.

The landmark trial over Arkansas' ban on gender-affirming care for children has resumed.

A Texas prosecutor facing mounting criticism over the handling of the 2019 Walmart mass shooting in El Paso that killed 23 people has resigned.

Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre is asking to be removed from a civil lawsuit by the state of Mississippi that seeks to recover millions of dollars in misspent welfare money that was intended to help some of the poorest people in the U.S. An attorney for Favre filed papers Monday saying the Mississippi Department of Human Services “groundlessly and irresponsibly seeks to blame Favre for its own grossly improper and unlawful handling of welfare funds and its own failure to properly monitor...

Attorneys for a Black man on Missouri's death row say he might not be facing execution if he were white.

The defense has rested at the Trump Organization’s criminal tax fraud trial after a contentious day in court, putting the case involving former President Donald Trump’s real estate empire on track for deliberations next week.

The U.S. Census Bureau’s chief is defending a new tool meant to protect the privacy of people participating in the agency’s questionnaires against calls to abandon it by prominent researchers and demographers.