Tech giant Meta is teaming up with artificial intelligence companies that work closely with the Pentagon to fuel its own AI ambitions.

Cheers and chants rang out Saturday from a crowd of thousands as soldiers manned modern and historic tanks and aircraft for the Army's 250th anniversary celebration in the District.

In his first words directed specifically to Americans, Pope Leo XIV told young people on Saturday how to find hope and meaning in their lives through God and in service to others.

The man accused of killing a Minnesota House lawmaker and her husband and wounding two others has been identified as 57-year-old Vance Boelter, a one-time appointee of Democratic Gov. Tim Walz.

A person tossed fireworks out of a car on the Las Vegas Strip early Saturday morning, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said. A tree caught fire as a result.

Organizers of the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival canceled the rest of this week's event in Manchester, Tennessee, due to heavy rain and lightning.

An 18-year-old man fell down a waterfall to his death at Olympic National Park in Washington state, park officials said. An area of the park was closed temporarily to recover his body.

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Democrats envision a perfect political storm sweeping across Texas next year, propelling them to victory in the U.S. Senate race and ending their 30-year losing streak in statewide elections.

Two Minnesota state lawmakers and their spouses were shot overnight by someone who police say may be impersonating a law enforcement officer.

A pair of Capitol Police officers who dealt with Jan. 6 rioters four years ago filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to compel the Architect of the Capitol to install a memorial honoring cops who defended the building and those inside the complex that day.

For the first time ever, parts of Alaska will be under a heat advisory - but you can put an asterisk at the end of that term.

The U.S. logged fewer than 30 measles cases this week as Ohio health officials confirmed three outbreaks in two counties were over.

Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, briefly showed up to the New York sex trafficking trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs on Friday to support the hip-hop mogul, a longtime friend. But he wasn't allowed into the courtroom and left after briefly watching the trial on a video monitor in another room.

Two Chinese scientists accused of smuggling or shipping biological material into the United States for use at the University of Michigan will remain in custody after waiving their right to a hearing Friday in federal court.

Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu has posthumously pardoned nine environmental activists executed 30 years ago by the then-ruling military junta, drawing sharp criticism and anger from activists who argued on Friday that the individuals committed no crime.

Marines were seen standing guard outside a federal building in Los Angeles on Friday as they started operations after protests erupted last week over immigration raids.

An Army helicopter pilot with the 101st Airborne Division based out of Fort Campbell in Kentucky died in a training accident this week.

Greek authorities detained an American man on Friday on the Greek island of Skiathos suspected of killing an infant found over the weekend in a Rome park and of having a role in the death of a woman believed to be the infant's mother, whose body was found nearby.

Four migrants escaped from a controversial ICE detention facility in New Jersey this week, Homeland Security admitted Friday.

New legal fights over Ten Commandment monuments have been launched this week in Illinois and Arkansas.

A new study has linked state laws legalizing marijuana to increased opioid addiction in Veterans Health Administration patients over time, with the sharpest increases among middle-aged and older men in chronic pain.

A jury in federal court ruled that a New Orleans police officer who shot and killed a puppy had violated its owners' constitutional rights but was shielded from punishment under qualified immunity because of his government role, according to the plaintiffs' attorney William Most.

A high school teacher was fired after being reprimanded for reading aloud a passage from the classic novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" that includes the n-word.

The Republican tax bill approved by the U.S. House of Representatives would cost the poorest Americans roughly $1,600 a year while increasing the income of the wealthiest households by an average of $12,000 annually, according to a new analysis released Thursday by the Congressional Budget Office.