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.

The battle over trans rights is unfolding against the backdrop of one of the most renowned rock climbing destinations in the country.

At least four legal disputes in the conservative-led Supreme Court's upcoming term are expected to offer the justices the opportunity to overturn decades-old precedents.

Texas cannot require public schools in Houston, Austin and other select districts to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom, a judge said Wednesday in a temporary ruling against the state's new requirement.

The winged passenger ferry gliding over the surface of Narragansett Bay could be a new method of coastal transportation or a new kind of warship.

The first domino in a growing national redistricting battle is likely to fall Wednesday as the Republican-controlled Texas legislature is expected to pass a new congressional map creating five new winnable seats for the GOP.

From Florida to New England, people trying to enjoy the last hurrahs of summer along the coast were met with rip current warnings, closed beaches and in some cases already treacherous waves as Hurricane Erin inched closer Wednesday.

Hurricane Erin is creating potentially deadly water conditions all along the U.S. East Coast days before the largest waves are expected, with high winds and waves anticipated in North Carolina by Wednesday night.

If a major hurricane approaches Central Florida this season, Maria knows it's dangerous to stay inside her wooden, trailer-like home. In past storms, she evacuated to her sister's sturdier house. If she couldn't get there, a shelter set up at the local high school served as a refuge if needed.

Food safety officials warned the public Tuesday about possible contamination of shrimp sold at Walmart in 13 states.

Target CEO Brian Cornell, who helped reenergize the company but has struggled to turn around weak sales in a more competitive retail landscape since the COVID pandemic, plans to step down Feb. 1.

A Chinese illegal immigrant in California was sentenced to eight years in prison Tuesday for sending weapons and technology to North Korea in preparation for a surprise attack on the South, according to the Justice Department.

A Justin Bieber doppelganger is banned from the XS nightclub at the Wynn Las Vegas resort after he got on stage and performed as if he were the pop star and also racked up a bar tab in the thousands.

Footwear brand Crocs is rolling out new shoes next month to kick off the NFL season, partnering with the league on a multiyear merchandising deal.

A U.S. appeals court has temporarily blocked the transfer of federal forest land in Arizona to a pair of international companies that plan to mine one of the largest copper deposits in North America.

The Justice Department on Tuesday opened an investigation of the Metropolitan Police Department allegedly publishing phony crime data to make the city appear safer than it is, according to multiple reports.

The late political philosopher Frank Meyer engaged in secret liaisons and experienced persecution from communists on his way to founding modern American conservatism, according to a biography based on thousands of newly discovered documents.

Fake "Labubu" dolls and keychains are small enough to choke a child, the Consumer Product Safety Commission warned in a safety alert.

Two teenage boys who objected to sharing a locker room with a biological female were hit with suspensions after being found responsible for sexual harassment and sex-based discrimination by Virginia's Loudoun County Public Schools.

A federal appellate court has struck down a ban on campus drag shows at West Texas A&M University, reversing a lower court ruling.

Two of the three people killed in a bar shooting in the New York City borough of Brooklyn were among the four shooters who opened fire inside the building, the city's police commissioner said Monday.

Oklahoma will require applicants for teacher jobs coming from California and New York to pass an exam that the Republican-dominated state's top education official says is designed to safeguard against "radical leftist ideology," but which opponents decry as a "MAGA loyalty test."