Police in Portland, Oregon, said Monday that no arson attack took place during the weekend fire at a city council member's home that torched her cars and part of her home.

Early reports show that recent smartphone bans in public schools have improved student participation and performance, overcoming initial classroom resistance.

Tourists wondering where the history ends and the ideological bias begins at some of America's most venerable destinations now have a handy resource to consult, thanks to the Heritage Foundation.

More than 100 investigators are racing to piece together how thieves pulled off the brazen heist at the Louvre Museum in Paris, working to recover the stolen gems and bring those responsible to justice.

DoorDash is launching an "Emergency Food Response" as federal food aid is set to run out starting Saturday.

The FBI has arrested a Minnesota man with alleged anarchist ties and a lengthy rap sheet after federal agents accused him of putting out a $45,000 bounty on Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Police in Portland, Oregon, are investigating a weekend arson attack in which the cars and part of the home of a city council member were torched.

A fighter jet and a helicopter based off the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz both crashed into the South China Sea within 30 minutes of each other, the Navy's Pacific Fleet said.

New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani rallied supporters Sunday with heavyweight support from U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as the race enters its final stretch, telling a raucous crowd that his campaign is a "movement of the masses."

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has vetoed more than 350 bills approved by the Democrat-led General Assembly, exercising conservative restraint over the commonwealth's legislative activity.

An Ohio ex-convict who went to prison for beating a 17-year-old to death was arrested last week after police accused him of killing a bystander during a shootout in Akron.

Someone was shot inside a downtown library in Texas' state capital city on Saturday, police said, prompting emergency vehicles and personnel to converge on the building and a shelter-in-place order to be issued. A suspect later was taken into custody in another part of the city.

Four related sketches by artist Norman Rockwell that were displayed at the White House for decades will be auctioned off next month.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia now says he fears persecution if he's sent to Liberia, as America's most prominent migrant tries again to derail a looming deportation.

Police at a Syracuse, New York, airport are looking for a former employee at a car rental center accused of stealing 47 autos and renting them out.

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro said the United States government is forging a war against him as the world's biggest warship approaches the South American country.

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When David Arsenault takes down a worn, leather-bound 19th-century book from the winding shelves of the Boston Athenaeum, he feels a sense of awe - like he's handling an artifact in a museum.

Polling places opened Saturday for the start of in-person voting for two of the year's most closely watched elections: The New York City mayor's race and the contest to pick New Jersey's next governor.

Ghouls, goblins ... and gummy bears.

The CEO of the nonprofit managing the Alamo resigned after a powerful Republican state official criticized her publicly, suggesting that her views aren't compatible with the history of the Texas shrine.

Arkansas officials killed a bear earlier this month, thinking it was the one that killed a man at a campground. DNA testing revealed that they got the wrong bear.

Decades after a crackdown by prosecutors decimated the ranks of the New York Mafia, the indictment of an NBA coach, a player and nearly three dozen others in a betting scandal highlighted the mob's persistence and adaptability to changing times and technology.

A 21-year-old semitruck driver accused of being under the influence of drugs and causing a fiery crash that killed three people on a southern California freeway is in the country illegally, U.S. Homeland Security officials said Thursday.

South Carolina's state-owned utility is looking to a private company to revive a project to build two nuclear power plants that was abandoned eight years ago, losing more than $9 billion without generating a watt of power.