NATIONAL NEWS

Reports are emerging from Guam about the damage left behind by Typhoon Mawar.

Portland is considering whether to ban homeless camping during daytime hours in most public places.

It’s time for residents along the southeastern U.S. coastline to get plans in place as the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season gets underway on Thursday.

U.S. births were flat last year, as the nation continues to see fewer babies born than it did before the pandemic.

The U.S. Census Bureau says it is delaying the release, and narrowing the scope, of some of the most detailed data from the 2020 census — until next year.

Alex Murdaugh has been arraigned on federal money laundering and wire fraud charges for indictments saying he stole money from his clients.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has named John Scott to temporarily serve as the state’s attorney general.

The governors of Virginia, West Virginia and South Carolina are joining the growing list of Republican-led states sending soldiers or other state law enforcement officers to the U.S. border with Mexico.

Testimony has resumed in the trial of a suburban truck driver charged with carrying out the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history.

Residents of a partially collapsed six-story building in Davenport are trying Wednesday to move on with their lives after being forced out of their apartments.

The Oklahoma Supreme Court has ruled two state laws banning abortion are unconstitutional, but the procedure remains illegal in the state in most cases.

A new study says Earth has pushed past seven out of eight scientifically established safety limits and into “the danger zone,” not just for an overheating planet that’s losing its natural areas, but for well-being of people living on it.

After bans on affirmative action in states from California to Florida, colleges have tried a range of strategies to achieve a diverse student body.

Jury selection in the trial of an ex-sheriff's deputy charged with failing to confront the Parkland, Florida, school shooter has gotten off to a speedy start.

The head of the U.S. Border Patrol says he's retiring.

Ten months before Donald Trump is scheduled to stand trial in his historic New York City criminal case, Manhattan prosecutors are in a tug of war with the former president’s legal team over precisely where he will be tried.

A New York City police officer is speaking out against the use of “courtesy cards” by friends and relatives of cops, accusing department leaders of maintaining a sprawling system of impunity that has fueled both reckless driving and racist traffic stops.

Competitors in the Scripps National Spelling Bee are trying to adjust their preparation so they don't get tripped up by onstage, multiple-choice vocabulary questions.

Minnesota’s governor has legalized recreational marijuana for people over 21 starting in August.

The brother of a Missouri ER doctor who has been missing for more than a week says that his body has been found in Arkansas.

A federal court ruling has cleared the way for OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma to settle thousands of legal claims over the toll of opioids.

A South Carolina gas station owner accused of chasing a 14-year-old boy from his store and fatally shooting him in the back has made his first court appearance on a murder charge.

A former Florida sheriff's deputy is about to be tried on charges he failed to confront the gunman who murdered 17 at a Parkland high school five years ago.

Thanks to a boost from the government, leasing — not buying — is becoming the most affordable way to get your hands on an electric vehicle.