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The law means training and a background check will not be needed for people to carry concealed guns in public. The state now has nearly three million permit holders

More than two dozen Democratic members of Congress who are active on TikTok are now facing questions about whether they’ll continue to use it, amid calls for a ban on the app

Abusive irrigation, an increasing population and climate change are drying up the largest lake of its kind in the Western Hemisphere. In November 2022, it fell to its lowest level in history

The lawsuit names the Newport News School Board and several school district officials, including former Superintendent George Parker III, as defendants

The attorney at the heart of the Stormy Daniels case has gone from being the former president’s most loyal ally to exposing the ‘dirty deeds’ he tried to sweep under the rug

City leaders insist policing reforms ensured protests following the killing of Patrick Lyoya by a white police officer last April did not devolve into violence and destruction. But the community believes the changes have been superficial

In a call with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Blinken conveyed ‘grave concern’ over the Kremlin’s detention of journalist Evan Gershkovich on espionage allegations

The former president is facing multiple charges of falsifying business records, including at least one felony offense, in the indictment handed up by a Manhattan grand jury

Confirmed or suspected tornadoes struck 11 states and destroyed homes and businesses, splintered trees and lay waste to neighborhoods

Hutchinson is the first Republican to enter the presidential race since Trump became the only former U.S. president to ever face criminal charges

Blame geography for the United States getting hit by stronger, costlier, more varied and frequent extreme weather than anywhere on the planet

Aides are mindful that Donald Trump has just been indicted, and they say Biden will look to time his announcement to a point when he won’t share the political spotlight with the Republican

A new Republican majority in the House is itching for a spending showdown. They blame what they view as excessive federal spending for inflation and for the growing national debt

Since the legislation was signed by President Joe Biden last summer, the number of mass shootings in the United States has only grown

Tens of thousands lost power because of the sprawling storm system that also brought wildfires to the southern Plains and blizzard conditions to the Upper Midwest

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders declared a state of emergency and said there was “significant damage” in the central part of the state

Dominion is suing the network for $1.6 billion, claiming Fox defamed it by repeatedly airing false allegations by then-President Donald Trump in the weeks after the 2020 election

New Mexico has one of the country’s most liberal abortion access laws, but two counties and three cities recently adopted restrictions that reflect deep-seated opposition to offering the procedure

The military says the service members who died in a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter crash ranged in age from 23 to 36 and were from seven states

The National Weather Service warns that 350,000 are in danger from a ‘confirmed large and destructive tornado’

‘The agreement isn’t change in and of itself, but it charts a clear roadmap to it,’ Mayor Jacob Frey said at a news conference

The victims were trying to enter the United States illegally from Canada, said Lee-Ann O’Brien, deputy chief of the Akwesasne Mohawk Police Service

The rules require companies to sell more electric trucks of varying sizes all the way up to massive vehicles weighing more than 33,000 pounds

At least 11 states have now enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming care for minors, and nearly two dozen states are considering bills this year to restrict or ban care

Eager to gain favor with the United States, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has made life hard for migrants seeking to cross Mexico to reach the U.S. border

‘I’m not going to talk about Trump’s indictment,’ the Democratic president said firmly when asked by reporters on Friday

Donald Trump is the first former president ever to be indicted, but he’s not the first U.S. politician who will have a mug shot taken