NATIONAL NEWS

Water agencies in drought-stricken California that serve 27 million residents won't get any of the supplies they've requested from the state heading into 2022 other than what's needed for health and safety.

Colorado’s health department says emergency workers should not use a condition involving erratic behavior as a reason to inject people with the drug ketamine.

The National Transportation Safety Board has issued a safety alert to subway systems and commuter railroads over a wheelset problem that led to a derailment in the nation’s capital in October.

Alabama's governor is honoring the state's first Black poet laureate, a creative writing teacher from Birmingham who delves into the pain and difficulty of being Black in America.

Scientists say it could be weeks before they better understand how dangerous the omicron variant is.

The mother of a 10-year-old Utah girl who died by suicide is speaking out about the bullying and racial harassment that her daughter endured.

It's a crowded scene outside the Supreme Court, where hundreds of abortion debate partisans are trading chants while justices hear highly anticipated arguments inside.

The four teenagers killed by a fellow student at Oxford High School in Michigan are being remembered for their commitment to athletics, art and family.

A top independent science panel says the U.S. needs to generate less plastic so less of the material ends up as waste in oceans and other waterways.

Tourism businesses that were just finding their footing after nearly two years of devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic are being rattled again as countries throw up new barriers to travel in an effort to contain the omicron variant.

Chris Cuomo says it “hurts to even say” he’s been suspended from CNN after revelations that he was more involved in damage control for his politician brother than his bosses had been aware.

Abortion activists are protesting in Mississippi’s capital as the state takes center stage in a pivotal U.S. Supreme Court case that could end a nationwide right to abortion.

The Biden administration is moving to toughen testing requirements for international travelers to the U.S., for both vaccinated and unvaccinated people, amid the spread of the new omicron variant of the coronavirus.

Fueled by several financial technology companies as well as an entry by the big credit card companies, Americans now have the option to “buy now, pay later” on everything from a $1,500 Peloton bicycle to a $60 floral bouquet.

Supreme Court justices considering a major abortion case Wednesday will hear from just three lawyers: one representing the state of Mississippi, another representing Mississippi’s only abortion clinic and the last representing the Biden administration.

California's first-in-the-nation law requiring women on corporate boards is being challenged in court this week on constitutional grounds.

Wisconsin Republicans are working to discredit the bipartisan system they created to run elections in the state after President Joe Biden narrowly won last year's presidential race.

Lawyers for a handful of states say members of the Sackler family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma are abusing the bankruptcy process.

U.S. officials are considering a new method for testing water that could show more places have elevated lead levels than previously believed.

NASA has called off a spacewalk because of menacing space junk.

Jury selection is set to begin in former reality TV star Josh Duggar's trial over federal child pornography charges.

City Council member Andre Dickens has won the runoff to become Atlanta’s next mayor.

California corrections officials have begun limiting medical parole only to inmates so ill they are on ventilators.

The Los Angeles County coroner has identified the victims in the brutal slaying of a grandmother and her four grandchildren in the California high desert.