The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits tumbled below 200,000 last week despite a number of economic headwinds, including the war in Iran.

Millions of Americans may qualify for dual Canadian citizenship under a recent change to Canada's requirements that has led to a surge in applications, multiple news outlets report.

Elon Musk took the stand for the second day Wednesday in the landmark trial that pits the world's richest person against Sam Altman, a fellow OpenAI co-founder he accuses of betraying promises to keep the company as a nonprofit dedicated to humanity's benefit.

Key conservative voices on Wednesday urged Republican-led states in the South to take the Supreme Court's invitation to redraw their legislative maps to delete Democrat-leaning Black-majority districts and replace them with GOP seats.

Animal refuge groups said Wednesday that they have agreed to buy nearly 1,500 beagles at a Wisconsin dog breeding and research business that was the site of a violent clash earlier this month between activists trying to break in and police who repelled them with tear gas and pepper spray.

A grand jury on Wednesday indicted a Louisiana sheriff whose office came under investigation after 10 inmates broke out of a New Orleans jail in an audacious escape that happened on her watch.

A Romanian man was sentenced on Wednesday to four years in prison for organizing a wave of swatting calls and bomb threats against dozens of U.S. government targets, including members of Congress, cabinet-level officials, federal judges and the heads of federal law-enforcement agencies, according to prosecutors.

Federal investigators say they believe the man who carried out a mass shooting at Brown University and later killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor did not act randomly.

Three family members were charged for allegedly assaulting a journalist who writes for a conservative organization during a protest against immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota, according to an indictment unsealed Wednesday.

Perched in a tower atop a hill, Matthew Douglas climbs a staircase and emerges from a hatch on the roof, where a heavy glass ball in a metal cradle has burned a thin streak into a strip of paper, recording the previous day's sunlight.

Alabama has a scholarship waiting for suspended guard Aden Holloway depending on the outcome of his marijuana case, coach Nate Oats said Wednesday.

Vicious winds burst through the front door of Christopher Hester's duplex apartment, then started ripping the roof apart. Hester and his wife grabbed their dog and ducked into a hallway to the sound of breaking glass, furniture hitting the walls and a howl like a monstrous vacuum cleaner.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has weighed in on a 20-year-old space debate and said Pluto should be considered a planet again.

The behavior of a suspect in the murders of two University of South Florida students from Bangladesh worsened over time from marijuana use, family members told deputies after his arrest three years ago for punching his brother in the face and kicking his mother in the back.

The Republican-controlled House approved a three-year reauthorization of a divisive U.S. surveillance program ahead of its expiration on Friday, adding new oversight measures but stopping short of the warrant requirement that critics have demanded.

Transponders that might have helped pinpoint the location of a fire truck that collided with a landing Air Canada jet in New York will soon be installed on ground vehicles at the region's three major airports.

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Wednesday that First Choice Women's Resource Centers, a network of pro-life pregnancy centers in New Jersey, can challenge the state's move to force it to disclose donor information.

The governor of Sinaloa and nine other current and former Mexican officials were charged with drug trafficking and weapons offenses in a U.S. indictment unsealed Wednesday in New York.

Two Jewish men were stabbed and injured on a London street on Wednesday, in what police called an act of terrorism. Police arrested a 45-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder in the city's latest antisemitic attack.

Five middle school students are being hailed as heroes after they took control of a runaway school bus and helped save their driver's life when she lost consciousness behind the wheel last week.

An alleged Islamic State group militant from Afghanistan was convicted on Wednesday of aiding the terror organization that took credit for a deadly suicide bombing at a Kabul airport, but a jury couldn't agree on whether he bears some responsibility for that attack during the U.S. military's chaotic withdrawal from the country in 2021.

Scottish entrepreneur Mike Welch made his fortune as an online tire retailer. But he says he might've traded that lucrative career for one in funeral services if not for an intervention during his teenage years from the charity of King Charles III.

Want to see the Liberty Bell this semi-quincentennial but don't have the time or cheese for a pilgrimage to Philadelphia? Have no fear: Chances are, there's one at a state Capitol, museum or even a fire station near you.

California regulators apologized to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk this week as they settled a lawsuit that claimed a state agency showed political bias against the rocket company and its chief executive.

Less than two years after her 6-year-old son was killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, Nicole Hockley was in an Ohio church basement teaching the first class of a program she hoped would help prevent future school shootings.