Just three weeks ago, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell spoke to reporters after the central bank had kept its key interest rate unchanged for a fifth straight meeting and said the job market was "solid."

When floodwaters rushed through a girl's summer camp nestled in the Texas Hill Country, Michael McCown's 8-year-old daughter was among 27 campers and counselors swept to their deaths.

Uganda has agreed a deal with the United States to take deported migrants on condition that the deportees should not have criminal records and not be unaccompanied minors, officials said Thursday.

Rep. Chip Roy announced his bid for Texas attorney general, passing on returning to Congress and his prominent role in the hard-line conservative House Freedom Caucus.

Lawyers for a Spanish-language journalist who has been held in federal immigration detention since June argue in a court filing that the government is retaliating against him for his news coverage and is holding him in violation of his constitutional rights.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton told abortion pill providers to stop sending the drug to his state, saying in cease-and-desist letters that the mailing of the abortion pill violates state and federal law.

A Wyoming man who allegedly hit a wolf with a snowmobile, taped the wounded animal's mouth shut and showed it off in a rural bar before killing it has been indicted on an animal cruelty charge by a grand jury nearly a year and a half after the incident.

James C. Dobson, a bestselling Christian author and psychologist whose views on the family influenced several presidents, died Thursday morning of unspecified causes. He was 89.

Walmart raised its sales outlook for the year on Thursday, even though its tariff-related costs are rising.

More Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, but U.S. layoffs remain in the same historically healthy range of the past few years.

A former top aide to New York City Mayor Eric Adams is among seven people facing new charges in the corruption investigation that has swirled around City Hall for two years, prosecutors in Manhattan announced Thursday.

The Menendez brothers will make their cases for parole starting Thursday, marking the closest they've been to winning freedom from prison since their convictions almost 30 years ago for murdering their parents.

Hurricane Erin battered North Carolina's Outer Banks with strong winds and waves that flooded part of the main highway and surged under beachfront homes as the monster storm slowly began to move away from the East Coast on Thursday.

Hurricane Erin is on its way to deliver a glancing blow to the mid-Atlantic seaboard, and multiple beach towns in Delaware and Maryland have shut down swimming in preparation for the storm.

Another state law aiming to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms has been blocked, making it the third time a court has pushed back in recent months on red states looking to promote the historical doctrine.

At least 13 people allegedly involved in the killing of two members of Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada's staff in May were arrested Wednesday for their alleged roles in what authorities described as a meticulously planned hit on two people close to the capital's leader.

Texas Republicans on Wednesday took the first step toward approving new congressional maps that would give their party as many as five new seats in the House of Representatives, spurring what's likely to be a national battle over redistricting.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has announced that the state is suing TikTok, alleging that its features violate state consumer protection laws.

Federal prosecutors in the nation's capital will no longer bring felony charges against people for possessing rifles or shotguns in the District of Columbia, according to a new policy adopted by the leader of the nation's largest U.S. attorney's office.

Most teachers say their public schools have adopted at least one "equitable grading" practice to keep minority students from failing, with negative consequences for academic motivation.

The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office in Colorado is searching for a man accused of stabbing a ranger at Staunton State Park Tuesday in what is believed to be a targeted attack.

Job candidates rarely find out why they were rejected, but Yael Nativ says she knows exactly why she wasn't rehired by the University of California, Berkeley: She's Israeli.

A federal judge in New York who presided over the sex trafficking case against the late financier Jeffrey Epstein has rejected the government's request to unseal grand jury transcripts.

A 325-foot fir tree thought to be 450-500 years old started burning in Oregon over the weekend and was still on fire Tuesday. Firefighters are trying to save it.

The U.S. Department of Education said Tuesday that it will place five Northern Virginia school districts on high-risk payment status for defying the administration on transgender access to bathrooms in violation of federal law.