NATIONAL NEWS

The Coast Guard says it has suspended its rescue operations in the search for dozens of migrants lost at sea off Florida.

Stormy Daniels has taken her star turn on the witness stand at California lawyer Michael Avenatti's trial, telling a jury he stole from her and lied to her.

A Tennessee school district has voted to ban a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust due to “inappropriate language” and an illustration of a nude woman.

A Georgia sheriff has concluded there was no evidence of foul play in the 2013 death of a Georgia teenager whose body was found inside a rolled-up gym mat at his high school.

Attorneys say a teenager charged with killing four students at a Michigan high school will pursue an insanity defense.

Former New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof traded the concrete canyons of Manhattan and the ritzy New York suburb of Scarsdale for his old family home, located on a dirt road in Oregon, to run for governor.

President Joe Biden says 14.5 million Americans got private health insurance for this year under the Obama-era health law, thanks to help from his administration.

New York Police Officer Jason Rivera was no stranger to the tensions between police and some communities.

The real winner of a sweepstakes for a ride in space has finally come forward: a Florida-based airline pilot.

Will the pandemic ever really be “over”.

The remains of 20 Native Americans massacred in Northern California in 1860 have been returned to their tribe.

Word of Justice Stephen Breyer's pending retirement may be lifting Democratic hopes ahead of midterm elections.

Will mortgage rates go up.

A requirement to get vaccinated against COVID-19 kicks in Thursday for millions of health care workers in about half the states.

The turbulent ocean waters around Florida can be treacherous even on a calm, sunny day.

Two U.S. senators say they were denied access to parts of a federal prison in Connecticut while trying to examine conditions there.

It’s been six months since closing arguments were held in the first lawsuit over the U.S. addiction epidemic to go to trial.

Two Colorado prosecutors say Gov. Jared Polis’ reduction of a 110-year prison sentence to 10 years for a trucker convicted of killing four people in a fiery 2019 crash is hurting efforts to negotiate sentences in other cases.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is seeking reelection, ending speculation that she would retire as Democrats face the threat of losing control of Congress in the 2022 midterms.

New Orleans' health director says she won't take part in a satirical Mardi Gras-season parade, one of the season's earliest, citing threats since COVID-19 restrictions were resumed.

San Francisco's police department has released preliminary figures showing a 567% increase in reported hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders from the previous year.

Republican lawmakers in Kansas are close to passing a congressional redistricting plan that ties a community known for its “woke” politics to Trump-loving small towns and farms five or hours more west by car on the expansive plains.

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for 39 people missing for several days after a boat believed to be used for human smuggling capsized off Florida’s coast en route from the Bahamas.

The COVID-19 booster drive in the U.S. is losing steam, worrying health experts who have pleaded with Americans to get an extra shot to shore up their protection against the highly contagious omicron variant.