Days after former President Donald Trump posted a $175 million bond to block New York state from imminently collecting on a huge civil fraud judgment, state lawyers Thursday called for more information on the bond's bona fides.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal has subtly hinted at the possibility of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor stepping down to allow the current Democratic majority to choose a successor.
To heck with the polls -- Jill Biden says it's "obvious" she will get a second term as first lady.
An Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife tanker truck crashed while carrying 102,000 captive-bred spring Chinook salmon smolt, sending 77,000 of them into the wrong waterway.
The president of EcoHealth Alliance, which used taxpayer money to fund research at the Wuhan virus lab, will appear before Congress next month to defend his firm's work.
Donald Trump left the White House facing a cash crunch and a tattered reputation after his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, threatening the viability of his business empire. Soon, though, a new source stepped forward to provide a financial lifeline when many longtime lenders refused.
After men near Mississippi's capital were buried in a pauper's cemetery without their relatives' knowledge, the U.S. Justice Department will help the city's police revamp policies for performing next-of-kin death notifications.
Oklahoma investigators say they believe foul play is behind the disappearance of two mothers in a remote part of the state over the weekend.
Does time - and a new host - heal all wounds? Fourteen years after Conan O'Brien was messily ousted from NBC's "The Tonight Show" to make way for the return of Jay Leno - the comedian is finally back.
Federal authorities have charged eight men with a multiyear, multi-state scheme to steal beer from trains and distribution facilities.
Far-right conservatives loyal to former President Donald Trump aren't slowing their push for the Republican-led Nebraska Legislature to adopt a "winner-take-all" system of awarding Electoral College votes, despite having almost no viable avenue to do so with only five days left in this year's legislative session.
The group of migrant squatters arrested last week in New York City on gun and drug charges all had been let into the U.S. at the southern border after being arrested when trying to cross illegally.
No Labels, the bipartisan political group that has tried to field a unity ticket for president, is throwing in the towel.
A Colorado schools superintendent has had enough of certain White people.
The No Labels group said Thursday it will not field a presidential candidate in November after strategists for the bipartisan organization were unable to attract a candidate willing to seize on the widespread dissatisfaction with President Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
Many Yanomami, the Amazon's largest Indigenous tribe in relative isolation, have been contaminated with mercury coming from widespread illegal gold mining, according to a report released on Thursday by Brazil's top public health institute.
Prosecutors and defense lawyers are exploring the possibility of a plea deal for the last of three men charged in the 2002 killing of Run-DMC star Jam Master Jay, both sides said Thursday, less than six weeks after two co-defendants were convicted.
President Biden delivered a blunt message Thursday to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: America's patience with its ally's campaign against Hamas terrorists in Gaza is not infinite.
U.S. stocks are edging higher Thursday and climbing back toward record heights, as Wall Street makes its final moves ahead of a jobs report that could shake the market on Friday.
The federal trial of four former Memphis police officers charged with civil rights violations in the beating death of Tyre Nichols will be held in the city, a judge ruled Thursday.
New York lawmakers passed another extension for the state's budget on Thursday to ensure state workers get paid and operations continue undisrupted as negotiations are still underway.
Three activists of Viasna, the main human rights group in harshly repressive Belarus, have been arrested and charged with participating in an extremist organization, state television reported Thursday.
Powerball will match a record for lottery drawings Saturday night with a stretch of more than three months without a jackpot winner.
There's a race underway to build artificial general intelligence, a futuristic vision of machines that are as broadly smart as humans or at least can do many things as well as people can.
President Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the humanitarian situation in Gaza and strikes on aid workers are unacceptable and that U.S. policy could change if Israel doesn't fix its approach, the White House said Thursday.
