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A North Dakota lawmaker who had recently received his commercial pilot’s license was flying his own plane home from a family celebration in Arizona when it crashed in Utah, killing him, his wife and their two young sons.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has been voted out of the job in an extraordinary showdown, a first in U.S. history.

The Michigan Supreme Court has turned down an appeal and cleared the way for the parents of the Oxford High School shooter to face trial on involuntary manslaughter charges.

President Joe Biden has announced that the manufacturers of all of the first 10 prescription drugs selected for Medicare’s first price negotiations have agreed to participate.

A federal judge says the court will swiftly adopt new congressional map for Alabama after ruling the state should have a second district with a substantial percentage of Black voters.

The Army is launching a sweeping overhaul of its recruiting to focus more on young people who've spent time in college or are job hunting early in their careers.

Scientists are trying to understand how some ancient buildings have lasted for centuries in hopes of making modern buildings more durable.

Restrictions on carrying guns in public that are tied to an emergency public health order are going under the legal microscope in U.S. District Court in New Mexico.

Sam Bankman-Fried's trial on charges that he defrauded thousands of customers and investors in his FTX digital coin exchange began with a full day of jury selection.

A man who killed two women he met a day apart at north Florida bars in 1996 has been executed.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy is facing an extraordinary referendum on his leadership of the House after Rep. Matt Gaetz, a longtime critic, moved to launch a vote to oust him from the helm.

When California Gov. Gavin Newsom needed to fill the U.S. Senate seat of his late mentor Dianne Feinstein, he could have turned to a big-city mayor, a member of Congress or a powerful legislator.

A judge has denied requests by three former Memphis officers to have separate trials in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols after a traffic stop.

A judge is planning a spring trial for U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife.

Federal Reserve officials typically gather many of their insights and observations about the economy from some of the top Ph.D. economists in Washington.

Mexico’s president says that about 10,000 migrants per day are heading to the U.S. border, and he blames U.S. economic sanctions on countries like Cuba and Venezuela for the influx.

The federal government has joined 21 former rail workers in suing Union Pacific over the way it used a vision test to disqualify workers the railroad believed were color blind and might have trouble reading signals telling them to stop a train.

A North Dakota Senate leader says a state senator, his wife and their two young children died when the small plane they were traveling in crashed in Utah.

A 9-year-old girl who vanished during a family camping trip in upstate New York has been found safe following a two day search.

The Powerball jackpot climbed to an estimated $1.2 billion after no one beat the immense odds and won the giant prize.