Illinoisβ new governor delivered on a top campaign promise Tuesday by signing legislation that makes the state the 11th to legalize small amounts of marijuana for recreational use and the second to approve it through the Legislature rather than the ballot box.
A Florida womanβs effort to protect herself from domestic violence has become a flashpoint in the debate over gun rights and victimsβ safety.
Chicago police on Monday released more than 1,000 files from the investigation into Jussie Smollettβs claim he was attacked by two men, including video footage that for the first time shows the βEmpireβ actor with a thin, white rope wrapped around his neck that he told detectives was a noose.
San Giuseppe Salami Co. by Giacomo, an Elon, N.C., establishment, is recalling approximately 832 pounds of ready-to-eat (RTE), frozen andouille sausage products that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, specifically metal, the U.S. Department of Agricultureβs Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $495 million in airport infrastructure grants, the second allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States.
Megan Rapinoe converted a pair of penalty kicks and the United States set up a much-anticipated quarterfinal meeting with host France at the Womenβs World Cup with a 2-1 victory over Spain on Monday.
Alma Pak of Alma, Georgia has issued a recall for several products containing frozen blackberries due to a possible risk of Norovirus contamination.
President Donald Trump said Friday the U.S. was βcocked and loadedβ to retaliate against Iran for downing an unmanned American surveillance drone, but he canceled the strikes 10 minutes before they were to be launched after being told 150 people could die.
The United States is showing just how fiercely it is prepared to defend its Womenβs World Cup title.
The Charlotte Hornets drafted Kentucky power forward PJ Washington with the 12th overall pick in the NBA Draft Thursday night.
Like βCasablanca,β β³Toy Story 3β³ concluded with the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Winter hit U.S. honeybees hard with the highest loss rate yet, an annual survey of beekeepers showed.
As auto companies continue to fix buggy touch-screen infotainment systems, a survey of new-vehicle buyers has found thereβs a different technology posing problems: driver assist systems such as automatic emergency braking.
Jabbing at the press and poking the eye of the political establishment he ran against in 2016, President Donald Trump officially kicked off his reelection campaign Tuesday with a grievance-filled Florida rally that focused more on settling scores than laying out his agenda for a second term.
U.S. authorities seized more than $1 billion worth of cocaine Tuesday from a ship at a Philadelphia port, calling it one of the largest drug busts in American history.
A soldier died when his military vehicle rolled during training in interior Alaska.
Preschoolers on government food aid have grown a little less pudgy, a U.S. study found, offering fresh evidence that previous signs of declining obesity rates werenβt a fluke.
The U.S. is sending 1,000 more troops to the Middle East as tensions in the Persian Gulf mounted Tuesday over Iranβs announcement it will not comply with the international agreement that keeps it from making nuclear weapons. At the same time, Iran insisted it was not seeking war.
President Donald Trump is threatening to remove millions of people living in the country illegally on the eve of formally announcing his re-election bid.
An Army veteran wearing a mask and carrying more than 150 rounds of ammunition for his high-powered rifle was shot dead Monday after he opened fire outside a busy federal courthouse in downtown Dallas, authorities said.
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