The average public school teacher salary rose by 3.8% to $72,030 last year, but wages continued a years-long trend of lagging behind inflation, the nation's largest teachers' union reported Tuesday.

In the final days of the Washington legislative session, lawmakers hashed out agreements to approve a bill that sets limits on rent increases and a measure that gives striking workers unemployment benefits. The two bills await decisions by Gov. Bob Ferguson, a Democrat.

Seattle elected officials and police brass are celebrating a boom in officer recruitment numbers that has the city on pace to rebound from the drop in staffing wrought by anti-police protests in 2020.

As Canada's Liberals celebrated election victory in a stunning turn of fortune, vote counting resumed Tuesday to determine whether Prime Minister Mark Carney's party gains an outright majority or needs help in Parliament from a smaller party.

There's a new pour from Starbucks: Its first 3D printed store in the U.S.

A key player in the U.S. government's battle to combat the flow of deadly fentanyl is a team at a little-known research lab in northern Virginia that's working to analyze seized narcotics and gather intelligence to find ways to stop the supply.

More than 50,000 Los Angeles County workers demanding higher pay walked picket lines again Tuesday, and the strike could mean closures or disruptions at libraries, healthcare clinics and administrative offices across the nation's most populous county.

A woman who says Harvey Weinstein forcibly performed oral sex on her testified Tuesday at his #MeToo retrial that she never had any romantic or sexual interest in the one-time Hollywood heavyweight.

A 7-year-old boy in Clearfield, Utah, took his 5-year-old sister along for a joyride in their mother's car, driving to nearby Ogden before hitting a parking strip and coming to a stop.

Voters in Wisconsin could be seeing double on Election Day if the practice of fusion voting - which allows the same candidate to appear on the ballot under multiple party lines - makes a comeback in the battleground state.

The only Black, all-female unit to serve in Europe during World War II, commonly known as the Six Triple Eight, will be presented Tuesday with the Congressional Gold Medal, following a long-running campaign to recognize its efforts.

Congress signed off on legislation to create a memorial to John Adams in 2001, but with each passing year, the Founding Father's prediction that "monuments will never be erected to me" looks more and more prescient.

The Catholic Church in Oklahoma wants taxpayers to fund an online charter school that "is faithful to the teachings of Jesus Christ." The Supreme Court could well approve.

Federal prosecutors have filed a charge against an Iraqi citizen, accusing him of illegally voting in the 2020 election.

A historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.'s final campaign in 1968 caught fire early Monday morning and suffered significant damage.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday weighed a woman's request to revive her lawsuit against the FBI after federal officers raided her Atlanta home, mistakenly, with their guns drawn.

A federal appeals court has paused a judge's order to bring a Turkish Tufts University student from a Louisiana immigration detention center back to New England this week so it can consider an emergency motion filed by the government.

Amazon on Monday launched its first batch of satellites to compete with SpaceX's Starlink constellation in providing broadband internet access around the globe.

TikTokers are drafting Catholic cardinals like NFL quarterbacks in a new Fantasy Pope League, turning the May 7 conclave to elect a new pope into a social media spectacle.

A crash through an after-school building in a small city outside of Springfield, Illinois, that killed three children and a teenager and left several others injured isn't believed to be a targeted attack, authorities said Tuesday.

Florida is on track to become the second state in the nation to ban "chemtrails," a nickname for aircraft condensation trails crisscrossing America's skies that some believe are laden with chemical or biological agents to control the weather or even people's minds.

A car smashed through a building Monday afternoon, killing four young people and injuring several others during an after-school program in a small city outside of Springfield, Illinois, police said.

A Maine state legislator who was barred from the House floor over a social media post about a transgender athlete in girls' sports has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to get involved.

New York City police on Monday said they arrested and charged a man who defiled a dead man's corpse on the subway earlier this month.

Shrimp is payday food for many, but Raul Ortega figured out how to make the shrimp taco affordable by using fewer shrimp while optimizing flavor. At Mariscos Jalisco, Ortega's food truck in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles, the tacos de camaron, or shrimp tacos, are the main attraction.