The nation's three largest drug distributors and a drugmaker have reached a tentative deal to settle a lawsuit related to the nation's opioid crisis.

California relishes role as liberal trendsetter while Trump bashes the state ahead of 2020 elections.

Authorities say they've found wreckage during a search for a small plane that disappeared near a busy North Carolina airport.

A pioneer in marketing CBD as a health product has pleaded guilty to selling large quantities of synthetic marijuana which was secretly added to vapes, sickening dozens.

The National Weather Service says a possible tornado has moved through the Dallas area, causing some structural damage and downed power lines.

There are plenty of sunny days to sweep the clouds away where SeaWorld is opening its next theme park.

Juul Labs stops selling fruit and dessert flavors for its electronic cigarettes.

The Senate's top Democrat is calling on the Food and Drug Administration to examine a report that found dozens of baby food products contaminated with lead and other metals.

A group of Detroit-area men opened bank accounts to move millions of dollars to Yemen, but a judge says they don't deserve prison.

People in New Orleans are preparing for the city to demolish two cranes that have been leaning over the remains of a partially collapsed hotel.

The world's first female spacewalking team is making history high above Earth.

Scientists say the earthquakes that hammered the Southern California desert near the town of Ridgecrest last summer involved ruptures on a web of interconnected faults and increased strain on a major nearby fault that has begun to slowly move.

Operations temporarily halted at a busy North Carolina airport after it lost radar contact with an approaching small plane, launching a search by fire and rescue units.

A Jewish civil rights group says at least 12 white supremacists have been arrested for plotting, threatening or carrying out anti-Semitic attacks in the U.S. since the massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue nearly one year ago.

As U.S. outbreak of U.S. vaping-related illnesses grows, a shrinking percentage of patients vaped only nicotine.

A Los Angeles jury has recommended the death sentence for a man dubbed "The Boy Next Door Killer.".

U.S. Army officials say three soldiers were killed and three others injured when the armored vehicle they were riding in was involved in an accident during training at Fort Stewart in Georgia.

National Weather Service's forecast sees a slight chance of a warmer winter for most of US.

Vegan Mexican food has become a widening industry on its own with Latinos taking control of the kitchen.

Opposition to one of the nation's longest proposed new natural gas pipelines in the U.S. has grounded an unlikely alliance determined to stop the current project.

Chicago parents are leaning on family, friends and community groups as teachers in the nation's third largest school district went on strike this week.

A service for a woman shot in her home by a Fort Worth police officer that had been scheduled for Saturday was canceled amid a family dispute over funeral arrangements.

As the Trump administration has all but stopped allowing Central American families to seek asylum in the US, Mexican parents and children are arriving in increasing numbers at the southern border and seeking asylum amid escalating cartel violence.

City officials in New Orleans are planning to use a series of controlled explosions to take down two cranes that have been standing precariously over the remains of a partially collapsed hotel.

New bulletproof memorial to Emmett Till has been placed in Mississippi after past historical markers were vandalized; the African American teen was beaten and killed in 1955.

The professional future of Indiana's attorney general will be at stake with a state disciplinary hearing that threatens his law license on allegations that he drunkenly groped four women at a bar last year.

Newly formed Tropical Storm Nestor is racing toward the northern Gulf Coast with high winds, surging seas and heavy rains Friday.

Chief executives of a handful of pharmaceutical and drug distribution companies are negotiating with government attorneys to see if they can reach a settlement ahead of the first federal trial over the nation's opioid crisis.

Medical professionals and human rights advocates warn Border Patrol agents are growing their presence at hospitals and creating a chilling effect on immigrant populations around the country.

People living and working near a corner of New Orleans' historic French Quarter are being told they should prepare to leave for several hours as preparations continue for a controlled explosion at a partially collapsed building.

Contract deal with United Auto Workers will drive up General Motors' expenses, but analysts say the company is in far better shape than a decade ago when labor costs helped push it into bankruptcy.

After a police officer fatally shoots someone, they are given days or even weeks before they have to submit to questioning.

Students at a Wisconsin high school are skipping class to protest the firing of a black security guard who was fired for repeating a racial slur while telling a student not to call him that word.

A former salon director who went public about sexual misconduct allegations against casino mogul Steve Wynn is suing Wynn Resorts and executives, alleging they invaded his privacy and spied on him at his next job in a bid to undercut his accounts.

Chicago's top police officer says his failure to take the proper blood pressure medication caused him to feel lightheaded as he drove home late at night this week.

The California Governor's Office of Emergency Services says earthquake early warning alerts will publicly available statewide starting Thursday.

A witness reports Alaska commuter airplane crash near airport in Unalaska on the Bering Sea.

A California real estate developer is returning to court to face sentencing for his role in a college admissions bribery scheme.

Nearly a million students could lose their automatic eligibility for free school lunches under a Trump administration proposal to tighten food stamp benefits.

The Interior Department is considering recommendations to modernize national park campgrounds.

California's top regulator excoriated top executives of the state's largest utility even as Pacific Gas & Electric repeatedly said they know they failed to meet public expectations when it cut the power to more than 2 million people last week.

Prosecutors say a Wisconsin man charged with killing one person and wounding two others at a cemetery where he once worked rigged his apartment and a house next door with explosives that could have killed police and neighbors.

A judge has ordered a woman charged with kidnapping, firearm and terrorism-related counts to be hospitalized, saying she suffers from mental illness.

A South Dakota county auditor accused of failing to make documents available for a public meeting was arrested and charged with violating the state's open meetings law, in a rare move seen as extreme even by some in the media.

A woman living in a van in San Diego with her pet rats has agreed to give them up _ all 300 of them.

A BASE jumper who jumped illegally from a northwestern Wisconsin cellphone tower ended up calling the police on himself after his parachute became caught on a guy wire, leaving him dangling perilously 50 feet from the ground.

Michael Cohen is again turning to Congress as part of a new bid to reduce his prison sentence.

The killings of four men asleep on streets in Manhattan's Chinatown have trained scrutiny on the city's struggle to reduce homelessness.

A wake and funeral for U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings will be held next week at the church where he worshipped for nearly four decades.

An analysis of FBI data shows that children in St. Louis have been the victims of homicides at 10 times the national rate for decades.