As Democrat Joe Biden is sworn in Wednesday as the nation’s 46th president, Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters still believe Biden was not legitimately elected after T...

Reports from an independent agency say a Seattle police officer who threw a tear gas canister that hit a reporter, and other officers who threw blast balls that hit indiv...

Researchers say the number of western monarch butterflies wintering along the California coast has plummeted to a record low, putting the orange-and-black insects closer ...

It's fair to say Brandon Litman was one of the more colorful campaign volunteers during Georgia's U.S. Senate runoffs.

Along with dystopian novels and White House tell-alls, the U.S. Constitution has been a best-seller during Donald Trump's presidency.

The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus has surpassed 400,000, providing a grim coda to Donald Trump's presidency.

U.S. Census Bureau director Steven Dillingham is planning to resign with the change in presidential administrations.

California has become the first state to record more than 3 million known coronavirus infections.

Speakers during the annual celebration of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in his hometown of Atlanta are calling for renewed dedication to nonviolence following a turb...

Coronavirus deaths are rising in nearly two-thirds of American states as a winter surge pushes the overall toll toward 400,000 amid warnings that a new, highly contagious...

The resiliency, culture and heroism of Black Americans and the African diaspora will be the central theme of a virtual event Tuesday evening that will celebrate the natio...

A California man who told police that the coronavirus pandemic left him afraid to fly has been arrested on charges that he hid in a secured area at Chicago’s O’Hare Inter...

Organizers of the Boston Marathon have launched a virtual Athletes’ Village to reproduce at least some of the camaraderie of the real thing.

MeWe is a 4-year-old, full-featured social media company positioned as an anti-Facebook.

More Californians than ever are dying from the coronavirus -- 525 every day.

The National Rifle Association has filed for bankruptcy protection and will seek to incorporate in Texas instead of New York.

New York prosecutors conducted an hourslong interview Thursday of Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former attorney.

Prosecutors say the manslaughter case against a former Boston College student accused of encouraging her boyfriend to take his own life will head toward trial.

Governors in some states have called out the National Guard, declared states of emergency and closed their capitol buildings over concerns about potentially violent demon...

Uncertainty over the pace of federal COVID-19 vaccine allotments is triggering anger and confusion in some states.

The prosecution of former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and others in the Flint water crisis is igniting a debate over whether public officials are being punished for judgmen...

A California lawmaker wants to ban some medically unnecessary surgeries on intersex children until they are at least 6-years-old.

There is increasing concern for the safety of journalists covering protests at state capitals across the U.S. and in Washington.

The global death toll from COVID-19 has topped 2 million.