Attorneys for a man charged with murder in connection with the killings of four University of Idaho students are asking a judge to throw out most of the evidence in the case.

The California state Legislature has approved a more than $2.5 billion package to help the Los Angeles area recover from its recent deadly wildfires.

A former Colorado Bureau of Investigation DNA scientist faces 102 criminal charges after authorities said she cut corners and didn’t follow standard testing protocols in hundreds of criminal cases.

.A suburban Seattle police officer who was convicted of murder in the 2019 shooting death of a homeless man has been sentenced to over 16 years in prison. Auburn police Officer Jeffrey Nelson was sentenced Thursday for his June conviction of second-degree murder for fatally shooting Jesse Sarey while trying to arrest him for disorderly conduct. The conviction was the first under a Washington state law that made it easier to prosecute law enforcement officers for on-duty killings. Prosecutors...

Police say a shooting at a Nashville high school has left one student dead and another wounded.

The family of a U.S. Border Patrol agent who was killed in Vermont during a traffic stop near the Canadian border says he was a military veteran who worked security duty at the Pentagon during the time of the Sept. 11 attacks.

A federal judge is set to hear the first arguments in a multi-state lawsuit seeking to block President Donald Trump’s executive order ending the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship regardless of the parents' immigration status.

Southern cities largely unfamiliar with snow and ice are getting creative in their efforts to clean up from this week's winter storm.

U.S. officials say active duty military troops are arriving in El Paso, Texas, and in San Diego on Thursday evening.

Mapmakers and teachers are re-thinking what to call the gulf of water between Mexico, the United States and Cuba after President Donald Trump ordered it renamed from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

President Donald Trump is pardoning anti-abortion activists who were convicted of blockading abortion clinic entrances.

One of President Donald Trump's executive orders offers a new federal government definition of the sexes that could have a major impact on transgender people.

Members of the Sackler family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma agreed to pay up to $7.4 billion to settle lawsuits over the toll of the powerful prescription painkiller.

Federal agencies, employees and contractors are trying to process how President Donald Trump’s sweeping anti-DEI executive order will upend their work.

In the wake of devastating wildfires in Los Angeles that struck at the heart of the movie industry, the twice-delayed nominations to the 97th Academy Awards are going forward Thursday morning.

CNN is expected to lay off about 200 of its employees, or 6% of its workforce, in part of a shift toward a more digital-oriented future.

President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the U.S. Department of Agriculture says efforts by the U.S. Forest Service to fight wildfires in California shouldn’t be influenced by politics.

New York Yankees legend Mariano Rivera and his wife are accused in a lawsuit of failing to protect a young girl who was was sexually abused by an older child during a summer camp trip sponsored by their church.

An Alabama man charged with homicide in two separate mass shootings pleaded not guilty in state court.

The residents who question whether Norfolk Southern's $600 million settlement offers enough compensation for the East Palestine train crash don't plan to let a judge's order requiring an $850,000 bond derail their appeal.