The U.S. Labor Department told all 50 states on Wednesday that they need to get serious about fighting fraud and waste in unemployment insurance, or else they won't get more money for those programs from the federal government.

How does a bus driver who doesn't speak English get a commercial license in America? The answer, investigators say, is more complicated than anyone expected. Washington Times reporter Susan Ferrechio explains what went wrong and what's being done to fix it.

High winds drove a wildfire into an eastern Washington neighborhood, forcing the evacuation of about 1,500 people and destroying at least 15 homes, officials said Wednesday.

A Denver middle-school teacher was fired last month after a district investigation and an independent review found her script choices for graded classroom skits had placed female students in a position of feeling pressured to kiss one another. The Denver Public Schools board unanimously voted May 20 to dismiss the teacher, 50-year-old Jennifer Honka.

Gas prices have dipped following the announcement of a peace pact to end the war in Iran and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Generations of Boston families played and picnicked on the grassy, sloping lawns of the Bunker Hill Monument.

Military officials on Wednesday identified all eight men killed in this week's fiery crash of a B-52 during a test flight at Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California.

Louisiana rapper Mystikal was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison for raping a woman at his Prairieville home in 2022.

Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport will halt all flights after noon on the Fourth of July to accommodate fireworks and aerial displays.

Luigi Mangione will assert a psychiatric defense at his state murder trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a judge said Wednesday.

Americans wondering when the nation's 250th birthday party would get rolling were answered last weekend as the White House hosted the UFC Freedom 250 cage fight -- an over-the-top patriotic spectacle that was either "tragically tacky" or "absolutely brilliant," depending on your political affiliation.

Mount Holly, New Jersey, is canceling its Independence Day events due to safety concerns.

A business jet with six people on board crashed on a highway in Laredo, Texas, and caught fire Tuesday night, authorities said, killing one person and causing chaos as people left their vehicles to frantically try to smash the cockpit window and free those inside.

The District's progressive candidates took healthy leads in crucial primary races Tuesday night as a new voting system resulted in hourslong delays.

A British Airways flight from London to Las Vegas was able to land safely Monday after a cellphone caught fire and scorched the cabin.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited Haiti on Tuesday, where surging gang violence has left more than 1 in 10 people homeless.

The U.S. Justice Department accused New York state officials Tuesday of facilitating fraud, saying they let a Georgia company use a sham bidding process to gain control of and then abuse a $10 billion program to provide home care to disabled Medicaid patients.

A hospital in Delaware was locked down Tuesday after two people were shot inside, police said.

A federal judge on Tuesday declined to overturn a Wisconsin judge's obstruction of justice conviction for helping a man evade immigration officers who showed up at a courtroom looking to detain him.

A hearing in Luigi Mangione's state murder case in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was postponed until Wednesday after prosecutors failed to inform his jailors that he was needed in court.

A man accused of shooting two National Guard troops near the White House, killing one of them, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges in a new indictment that make him eligible for a possible death sentence if he is convicted.

A cluster of storms along the Gulf Coast could become the first named tropical storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, the National Hurricane Center said.

Republican Gov. Mike DeWine, who has repeatedly postponed executions over the past seven years, said Tuesday that Ohio should abolish the death penalty, confirming his change of heart on the policy he helped write as a state legislator 45 years ago.

Contractors running Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities can rely more heavily on artificial intelligence tools to communicate with detainees and continue refusing to pay the minimum wage for detainees' "voluntary work," under relaxed detention standards released Monday.

A person is in custody in an investigation of a large cross set on fire in a well-known Chicago park, police said Tuesday.