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."

Democrat Abigail Spanberger's lead over Republican Winsome Earle-Sears has narrowed as the two gubernatorial candidates prepare for the post-Labor Day sprint to the November election.

California Democrats started a partisan push to draw new congressional districts and reshape the state's U.S. House representation in their favor, but to pull it off, lawmakers who returned to the Capitol on Monday face a tight deadline and must still win voters' approval.

Rip currents are one of the coast's greatest dangers and account for the most beach rescues every year. Hurricane Erin is bringing the potentially deadly currents to the East Coast this week.

A woman known as the "Ketamine Queen," charged with selling Matthew Perry the drug that killed him, agreed to plead guilty Monday.

A semitruck caught fire on Interstate 44 in Doolittle, Missouri, Monday, burning its load of steaks to a crisp.

A federal judge in Miami issued a split decision in a lawsuit over the legal rights of detainees at the "Alligator Alcatraz" immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, dismissing part of the suit and also moving the case to a different jurisdiction.

Britain abandoned its demand that Apple provide so-called backdoor access to any encrypted user data stored in the cloud, U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Monday.

There's a popular T-shirt on Hatteras Island on the North Carolina Outer Banks that says: "One road on. One road off (sometimes)" -- poking fun at the constant battle between Mother Nature and a thin ribbon of pavement connecting the narrow barrier island to the rest of the world.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear took emergency action Monday to ban the sale of "designer Xanax," responding to a request from his state's attorney general who is leading a broader effort to combat the highly potent synthetic drug linked to dozens of overdose deaths last year in the Bluegrass State.

A Virginia man convicted of shooting a New Jersey pastor to death outside her home in 2023 was sentenced Monday to life in prison.

The Texas measles outbreak that sickened 762 people since late January is over, state health officials said Monday.

Two police officers were shot and killed in a northern Utah city and a man was taken into custody, authorities said Monday.

A stronger and bigger Hurricane Erin pelted parts of the Caribbean and was forecast to create dangerous surf and rip currents along the U.S. East Coast this week.

New York City police said Sunday that three men were killed and nine people were wounded when a suspected gang-related shooting erupted inside a Brooklyn nightclub.

The fatal explosion last week at U.S. Steel's Pittsburgh-area coal-processing plant has revived debate about its future just as the iconic American company was emerging from a long period of uncertainty.

Rose Hammond pushed authorities for years to lower the 55 mph speed limit on a two-lane road that passes her assisted living community, a church, two schools and a busy park that hosts numerous youth sports leagues.

Three people are dead and eight others wounded after a shooting in a crowded New York City club early Sunday morning.

Nura Maznavi got a kick out of learning that New York City Muslim mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdanimet his wife on Hinge.

Anne Pace has been hearing about Dog Mountain for years, but until earlier this month, had never made a trip to the park.

A year after being lauded for its plan to replace thousands of aging, gas-powered mail trucks with a mostly electric fleet, the U.S. Postal Service is facing congressional attempts to strip billions in federal EV funding.