Police shot and killed a Wisconsin student outside a middle school after receiving a report of someone with a weapon, the state's attorney general said in the first law enforcement briefing on an incident that sent children fleeing amid gunfire.

A GoFundMe page for the fraternity house that defended the American flag during pro-Palestinian protests has raised over 160k in one day.

Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira, who pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges for leaking highly classified military documents about the war in Ukraine and other national security secrets, will face a military justice proceeding later this month,...

A 31-year-old transgender woman reportedly is set to compete for the second time in the national collegiate women's water polo club championships that begin Friday at Texas A&M University.

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is facing backlash for calling some Jewish students at Columbia University "pro-genocide" including a GOP-led motion to censure her, reports Axios.

Nicole Shanahan, the running mate of independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., asserted Wednesday the U.S. bears responsibility for casualties in the Gaza Strip and Ukraine.

BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, has invested in Chinese companies working on the communist nation's nuclear weapons buildup, according to a report by the Coalition for A Prosperous America (CPA).

A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday said a lawsuit filed by 21 young people claiming the U.S. government's energy policies violate their rights to be protected from climate change must be dismissed, this time for good.A three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S....

Following a full crackdown on the protests plaguing some New York college campuses, the New York Police Department confirmed Wednesday that they had made almost 300 arrests.

U.S. stocks closed mixed Wednesday after the Federal Reserve left its key interest rate unchanged, as expected, but indicated that its next move will probably be to cut rates.

Disclosures of U.S. identities in spy reports distributed by the National Security Agency in response to requests from other agencies through Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act nearly tripled last year, the government disclosed Tuesday.

Democrats in the Arizona Legislature made a final push Wednesday to repeal the state's long-dormant ban on nearly all abortions, which a court said can be enforced.Voting wasn't complete but the Senate had the 16 votes it needed to advance the bill.Fourteen Democrats in the...

Harvey Weinstein will be retried in New York, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office said in court on Wednesday, a week after the state's highest court threw out his 2020 rape conviction.Weinstein appeared in court before Judge Curtis Farber, more than four years after...

The U.S. airman who pleaded guilty to leaking classified military documents on a social media platform will face military criminal proceedings, Air Force officials said Wednesday.

Global fast food giants may have to dole out steeper promotions to lure inflation-hit customers who are increasingly opting to eat at home, following weak sales from the likes of McDonald's and Starbucks this week.

Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis is pushing unity in the Republican Party ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

The Rev. Franklin Graham on Wednesday called on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., to "reconsider" her intention to file a motion to vacate next week against Speaker Mike Johnson.

The Federal Reserve Wednesday emphasized that inflation has remained stubbornly high in recent months and said it doesn't plan to cut interest rates until it has "greater confidence" that price increases are slowing sustainably to its 2% target.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said on Wednesday that "outside agitators" involved in the pro-Palestine protests at Columbia University are attempting "to radicalize young people" across the country.

A middle school in Wisconsin went into lockdown Wednesday due to an active shooter. There are no reports of anyone being harmed, except for the alleged assailant, the Mount Horeb Area School District wrote on Facebook.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a first-in-the-nation ban on lab-grown meat Wednesday, calling the product a threat to agriculture akin to citrus greening disease.

Texas has seen a sharp decrease this year in the number of encounters between law enforcement and suspected illegal migrants, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Bill Cassidy, R-La., are wondering why employees at the Department of Education are still being allowed to work remotely.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., offered a brief but strong reply to Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene saying she intends to file a motion to remove him from his position.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is moving toward reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug. The Justice Department proposal would recognize the medical uses of cannabis, but wouldn't legalize it for recreational use. The proposal would move marijuana from the...