D.C. police on Thursday said an officer shot a man who was accused of wounding another man in an earlier shooting in Northeast Washington.

Fraudsters are inventing ghost students who enroll in college, never show up, yet pocket thousands of dollars in federal financial aid, government officials revealed Thursday, saying the scams -- often tied to overseas operations in Africa -- have stolen hundreds of millions of dollars this decade.

A woman was shot in front of the Richmond headquarters of the Virginia Republican Party on Thursday.

Two helicopters collided and crashed into a farm field Thursday near a small airport southwest of Portland, Oregon, killing all three people on board and forcing the closure of a key highway, authorities said.

Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, said Thursday it's investigating reports of a potential security issue as its founder said the incident "does look like a hack on Binance."

A federal jury convicted a Rwandan man this week who lied about the atrocities he committed during his native country's 1994 genocide.

A high school football coach in Connecticut resigned at halftime of a game his team was losing 30-0 after getting into a heated exchange with his players.

Relatives whose loved ones were killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting are making an impassioned plea to the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold state and local bans on certain semiautomatic rifles, citing the high body counts and devastating injuries the weapons can inflict.

Scientists in California have found that the genome of a trapdoor spider species named for Stephen Colbert in 2008 is 1.5 times the size of the human genome.

The Big 12 Conference has fined UCF $100,000 for fans' derogatory chants aimed at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at last weekend's football game against BYU.

The Pentagon is reportedly investigating a series of late-August freezer and refrigeration malfunctions at U.S. military base commissaries as a suspected cyberattack.

An Egyptian man is scheduled to change his not guilty plea to federal hate crime and other charges Thursday for a deadly firebombing attack on demonstrators in Boulder, Colorado, last year.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said business school graduates should become more innovative with their career choices since artificial intelligence is handling menial tasks once handled by people.

Federal officials declared an emergency Wednesday evening after a fire ignited at a national lab in South Carolina that used to make crucial parts for nuclear bombs.

Two Colorado college students have been found dead after going missing during a hiking trip in the Rocky Mountains last weekend when a heavy snowstorm hit, authorities said.

A U.S.-Jamaican dual national will be imprisoned for life after a federal jury in Virginia convicted him Wednesday of a 2016 murder-for-hire plot.

Princeton Elementary School in Camp Springs was closed Wednesday for the rest of the week after students and staff got sick with an unspecified illness.

The reward for information leading to the arrest of escaped Tennessee inmate and convicted murderer Jacob Morley is up to $15,000, state officials said Wednesday.

Scientists have identified a possible new dwarf planet orbiting the Sun beyond Pluto, which would be the sixth dwarf planet confirmed in the solar system.

King tides have inundated parts of both U.S. coasts, flooding streets and sending seawater into homes and businesses in beach communities in California, Florida and the Carolinas.

A death sentence for an Indiana man who killed his girlfriend's two children in a house fire should remain in place, the state parole board recommended Wednesday, just days before a Nov. 5 execution by lethal injection.

A man who played a major role in defrauding a federal food program in Minnesota was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison, the latest punishment in a sprawling scheme to collect millions of dollars during the COVID-19 pandemic by claiming to have fed needy children.

Minneapolis prosecutors charged conservative activist James O'Keefe and right-wing influencer Cam Higby after the pair used the names of registered voters to make a hidden-camera video in a bid to expose voter fraud in the state.

Fox News personalities Sean Hannity and Ainsley Earhardt are officially married after their wedding ceremony Saturday in Palm Beach, Florida, where they also got engaged in December 2024.

Actresses Anne Hathaway and Hilary Swank are preparing to give birth after the age of 40, highlighting a trend of U.S. women bearing children later in life.