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.

A Louisiana crime watchdog group is urging state officials to appoint judges rather than having voters elect them because they often run unopposed and are not held accountable for their judicial record.

A United Airlines Boeing 737 reportedly struck a drone at approximately 3,000 feet while on approach to San Diego on Wednesday.

Customs and Border Protection officers manning the San Ysidro Port of Entry from Mexico into California detected $2.8 million worth of fentanyl and methamphetamine in two busts this month.

A hailstorm struck a zoo in Missouri Tuesday, killing an emu, a flightless bird native to Australia.

A Massachusetts beekeeper has been sentenced to six months in jail for unleashing thousands of bees on sheriff's deputies during a court-ordered eviction in 2022, multiple news outlets report.

The Church of Scientology has increased security at its Hollywood buildings to deter a TikTok trend in which teenagers run through its facilities to see how far they can go before being stopped, several news outlets report.

Austin's oldest continuously operating family business is shutting its doors after 141 years of selling pralines, chocolates and holiday treats to generations of Central Texas families.

Maryland has become the first state in the country to ban dynamic pricing and using an individual's personal data to increase grocery prices.

Federal and Maryland officials said Tuesday they will hire a different contractor to lead the rebuild of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge due to rising costs and delays in erecting the new span.

An illegal immigrant from Mexico admitted in court to a harebrained scheme where he was impersonating a Border Patrol agent to try to thwart federal agents from carrying out arrests and deportations in southern California.

The House Judiciary Committee has invited the Southern Poverty Law Center to testify at a hearing on its role in "distorting federal civil rights policy in recent years."

Elon Musk, the Tesla CEO, world's richest man and OpenAI cofounder, took the stand Tuesday in a high-stakes trial revolving around a bitter feud with his former friend Sam Altman that could reshape the future development of artificial intelligence.