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MANCHESTER, N.H. — President Joe Biden  on Monday released a budget proposal aimed at getting voters' attention: It would offer tax breaks for families, lower health care costs, smaller …

NASHVILLE, Tenn.  — In Republican-led states across the U.S., conservative legislators are refusing to reevaluate abortion bans  — even as doctors and patients insist the …

The drugstore chains CVS Health and Walgreens plan to start dispensing an  abortion  pill in a few states within weeks. CVS Health will start filling prescriptions for mifepristone in …

FORT EDWARD, N.Y. — A man who fatally shot a 20-year-old woman after the SUV she was riding in mistakenly drove into his rural driveway in upstate New York was sentenced Friday to more than 25 …

Under a heavy police presence, thousands of people bade farewell Friday to opposition leader  Alexei Navalny  at his funeral in Moscow after his still-unexplained death two weeks ago in an …

A federal appeals court in Washington has ordered a new sentence for a retired  Air Force officer who stormed the U.S. Capitol  dressed in combat gear, in a ruling issued Friday that could …

NEW YORK — Americans who test positive for COVID-19 no longer need to stay in isolation for five days, U.S. health officials announced Friday. The Centers for Disease Control and …

STINNETT, Texas — A dusting of snow covered a desolate landscape of scorched prairie, dead cattle and burned out homes in the Texas Panhandle on Thursday, giving firefighters brief relief in …

MIAMI — A former career U.S. diplomat told a federal judge Thursday he will plead guilty to charges of working for decades as a secret agent for communist Cuba, an unexpectedly swift resolution …

BOSTON — Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guard member  accused of leaking highly classified military documents on a social media platform, is expected to plead guilty in his …

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky will step down as the Senate Republican leader in November, he said on the Senate floor Wednesday, announcing the end of a run as party leader …

NEW YORK — Richard Lewis, an acclaimed comedian known for exploring his neuroses in frantic, stream-of-consciousness diatribes while dressed in all-black, leading to his nickname “The …

A Washington state man accused of helping kill more than 3,000 birds — including eagles on a Montana Indian reservation — then illegally selling their feathers intends to plead guilty to …

  SIOUX FALLS — Bob Zeidman has visited South Dakota just once in his lifetime. He could be $5 million richer because of it. The computer forensics expert attended a Cyber Symposium …

NEW YORK — In the mid-1970s, the Eagles were working on a spooky, cryptic new song. On a lined yellow pad, Don Henley, with input from band co-founder Glenn Frey, jotted thoughts …

NEW DELHI — Indian farmers who have been protesting for a week to demand guaranteed crop prices have rejected a proposal from the government, and say they will continue their march to the …

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen embryos can be considered children under state law, a ruling critics said could have sweeping implications for fertility …

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent …

BURNSVILLE, Minn.  — Two police officers and a firefighter who responded to a domestic situation at a suburban Minneapolis home were killed early Sunday  during a standoff by a …

It was winter 2021 when Philbert Shorty’s family found his abandoned car stuck in the mud outside the small community of Tsaile near the Arizona-New Mexico state line. “We knew something …

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