Over 20,000 cherry blossom-themed Smart Trip cards are being sold at seven Metrorail stations to commemorate Friday's start of the National Cherry Blossom Festival.

Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard condemned the antisemitism he said was behind the recent attack on a synagogue in his Michigan community.

CBS News said Friday it is shutting down its storied radio news service after nearly 100 years of operation as part of a round of layoffs, blaming a shift in radio station programming strategies and challenging economic times.

In polite company or otherwise, the Rev. Sarah Trone Garriott is very comfortable talking to people about religion and politics.

Chuck Norris, the martial arts grandmaster and action star whose roles in "Walker, Texas Ranger" and other television shows and movies made him an iconic tough guy -- sparking internet parodies and adoration from presidents -- has died at 86.

CBS News is reportedly axing dozens of staffers as Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss continues to revamp the broadcast network.

For the second time this year, NASA moved its moon rocket from the hangar out toward the pad Friday in hopes of launching four astronauts on a lunar fly-around next month.

American communities spent the past few decades memorializing Cesar Chavez in their roads, schools, a National Park Service site and even a U.S. Navy ship. Now the rush is on to erase them.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she was asked to leave a restaurant in Little Rock because her presence made the employees feel "threatened."

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Thursday that it has banned a staffer from the office of Rep. Veronica Escobar from entering any of its detention facilities, saying the man lied and broke the rules by letting detainees use his phone.

A 19-year-old Mexican migrant died at a county jail in Florida that has been housing immigrant detainees, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

A close call between a commercial airliner and a cargo plane attempting to land on crossing runways at Newark Liberty International Airport was being investigated Thursday by federal aviation officials.

The University of California, Berkeley, will pay $1 million in attorneys' fees to resolve an antisemitism lawsuit over campus organizations accused of creating "Jewish-free zones" by boycotting supporters of Israel.

A day after a tiny desert community in Southern California reached 108 degrees (42.2 Celsius), tying the highest March temperature ever recorded in the U.S., forecasters warned Thursday that record-breaking winter heat across the Southwest will continue into the weekend.

Meteorite hunters fanned out across a wide swath of Ohio on Thursday, hoping to collect fragments of an estimated 7-ton (6,350 kilograms) space rock that crashed into Earth this week after a dazzling fireball that was seen from hundreds of miles away.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday unveiled a new office dedicated to community safety, a tentative first step toward fulfilling a key campaign pledge to reduce the role of police in responding to mental health emergencies.

Live Nation Entertainment's longtime chief executive was the star witness at a New York antitrust trial Thursday, defending the dominant position his company has taken over the last two decades as a lawyer for nearly three dozen states tried to portray the concert giant as greedy and abusive to customers.

The Justice Department's quest to force states to turn over voter rolls has faltered in Washington state, where federal government lawyers seem to have forgotten to actually serve their lawsuit on state officials.

Gadyaces S. Serralta, the service's director, said the traditional list of 15 has become stagnant and will be expanded.

A single contestant on the ongoing 50th season of "Survivor" has 90% odds of winning on prediction markets Polymarket and Kalshi.

An upstate New York man admitted to leaving harassing and threatening voicemail messages to a family member of slain UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson as he pleaded guilty to cyberstalking in federal court Thursday.

The body of James "Jimmy" Gracey, a 20-year-old University of Alabama junior who went missing during a spring break trip to Barcelona, Spain, has been recovered, authorities confirmed Thursday.

A man was arrested by the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office in Washington state after being accused of riding an electric unicycle while drunk.

It was Dolores Huerta who coined the slogan "Si, se puede" in 1972 when bringing together farmworkers in Arizona to fight a law that prohibited boycotts and strikes.

In the escalating war in Iran, the State Department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs would ordinarily be at the center of the geopolitical fray.