President Joe Biden's Cabinet secretaries have been touring the country to marshal support for the president's infrastructure package and the larger Biden agenda

New COVID-19 cases are declining across most of the country, even in some states with vaccine-hesitant populations

A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by employees of a Houston hospital system over its requirement that all of its staff be vaccinated against COVID-19

California is just days away from reopening its economy but business owners who have struggled in the past year still face an uncertain future

Controversies over the handling of sex abuse cases and critical race theory are likely to dominate the Southern Baptists' annual meeting, set to begin Tuesday

There is no shortage of job openings for local election officials in Michigan

Districts across the country are hiring kindergarten teachers and preparing summer programs as they brace for a supersized class that will include more children who missed out on preschool and older classmates whose parents decided to wait an extra year because of the pandemic

As rising murder rates gain attention in American cities, Republicans have ramped up a misleading campaign to cast Democrats as anti-police and lax on public safety

With abortion and guns already on the agenda, the conservative-dominated Supreme Court is considering adding a third blockbuster issue

The 49 people killed in a mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Florida have been honored in Orlando and around the world on the fifth anniversary of the attack

Authorities say two people were killed and at least 30 others wounded in mass shootings overnight in three states

Kip Kinkel, who killed his parents before going on a shooting rampage at his Oregon high school in 1998, killing two classmates and injuring 25 more, has given his first news interview

Police in Austin have arrested one suspect and are searching for another after a mass shooting on a crowded downtown street in which 14 people were wounded

Authorities in western Pennsylvania say a car crashed into a building housing a plasma center in Pittsburgh and caught fire, killing three people and injuring two others

The airline industry’s recovery from the pandemic passed a milestone as more than 2 million people streamed through U.S. airport security checkpoints on Friday for the first time since early March 2020