The 2020 census in the U.S. will begin this week in a tiny community in Alaska.

Texas authorities say a search for a suspect continues after two people were killed and five others were injured following a shooting during a concert inside a San Antonio club.

Texas and other Republican-controlled states across the country have been imposing registration and voting restrictions in recent years that make casting a ballot more difficult.

U.S. health officials have announced they will begin screening airline passengers from central China for a new virus that is making people sick.

The gun industry is gathering in Las Vegas for its annual trade show amid slumping sales and an uncertain political landscape.

A 4-year-old Indiana boy is in critical condition after a gun his father had concealed in his clothing discharged while the two were wrestling, police said.

Police say one man may have killed as many as a dozen Chicago-area girls and young woman in the late ‘70s and early 1980s, and their investigations into his actions and victims indicate how easy it was then for a serial killer to escape detection.

An ice disk appears to be forming in the same river where an usually large one formed last winter and quickly gained international fame.

Two U.S. agencies say the decade that just ended was by far the hottest ever measured on Earth, capped off by the second-warmest year on record.

State officials and U.S. hate-monitoring groups are warning about the potential for violence ahead of a gun-rights rally in Virginia that's expected to draw a mix of militias, firearms advocates and white supremacists to Richmond.