CNN —Stephanie Young, a veteran Democratic aide, has been tapped to be Vice President Kamala Harris’ new senior adviser to focus on messaging and outreach. Young’s role is a new position for the vice president’s office, meant to take a birds-eye approach to...
North Carolina's unemployment rate declined to 3.6% in February, the state Commerce Department announced on Friday, marking its lowest level since last June. The seasonally adjusted rate fell from 3.8%, where it had sat for the previous two months. The U.S....
Authorities searched for a person missing after flash flooding swept away a vehicle in Missouri and a suspected tornado touched down early Friday in north Texas as a volatile storm system threatened to spawn tornadoes in several Southern states. The Nationa...
An airline passenger who helped tackle a man trying to stab a flight attendant with a broken metal spoon was honored Friday by his hometown police department in New Hampshire. Jeff Neil, a former bouncer who now works for a software company, received the "C...
A mother was killed and her 6-year-old twin boys were injured when a suspect in a stolen SUV crashed into their car in the San Francisco Bay Area during a police pursuit, authorities said Friday. A 20-year-old man suspected of driving the stolen vehicle fle...
A Texas woman got into an altercation with another passenger on a Frontier Airlines flight from Miami, Florida to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania which led to her being forcefully removed from the aircraft allegedly kicking, scratching and biting police officers...
A Wisconsin man is accused of fatally shooting his parents, the owners of a "cherished" cheese factory and shop in Zittau, and detailing his plans to do so in a journal. Erik Tyrell Metzig is charged in the March 18 murders of his parents, David and Jan Met...
The parents of a Philadelphia boy found locked inside a dog cage have been arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of a child, police said Friday. Inside, a boy was found inside a cage secured with a zip tie. The three children were taken to St Ch...
CNN —On the eve of a high-profile TikTok hearing this week, the company shared that it now has more than 150 million US monthly active users. But after the heated, hours-long hearing, filled with lawmakers telling TikTok’s CEO the app should be banned, some...
CNN —A West Texas A&M student-led LGBT+ organization and its leaders have filed a federal lawsuit after a student drag show was canceled Monday by the university’s president, who called such shows “derisive, divisive and demoralizing misogyny,” drawing...
Oregon has issued its first license under its new system that offers controlled use of psilocybin to the public. The Oregon Health Authority announced Wednesday that it had issued a manufacturer license to Satori Farms PDX LLC, owned by Tori Armbrust. Orego...
A federal judge in Washington is threatening to report two attorneys for possible disciplinary action for delaying the trial of a man waiting in jail on charges that he assaulted police officers during the Capitol riot. In November, McBride tweeted a pictur...
CNN —A Tennessee commission is recommending that three former Memphis, Tennessee, police officers involved in the death of Tyre Nichols be decertified from working in law enforcement in the state. The three men were recommended to be decertified during an i...
The last three years have been the driest such period on record in California, with the West as a whole suffering through the worst drought in at least 1,200 years. Last year, state scientists also predicted that California could lose 10% of its water suppl...
Confidence was growing Friday in the likelihood of another strong storm arriving in soggy, snow-laden California early next week, forecasters said. The outlook for more winter-like weather increased as the state turned windy and cold, with residual rain and...
Illinois police investigating the mysterious disappearance of a young U.S. sailor last seen walking away from a bar nearly a week ago said Friday the search is at a "standstill." Seamus Gray, 21, vanished in the early morning hours of March 18 following his...
River water temperatures rose with warm weather, and a Trump-era rollback of federal protections for waterways allowed more water to be diverted to farms. "There will be no wild-caught California salmon to eat unless someone has still got some vacuum sealed...
A Minnesota man is accused of fatally stabbing his wife during a Bible study session. Police in St. Paul called to a home around 9 p.m. Tuesday found Corinna Woodhull with knife wounds to her torso, chest and arms and people holding down her husband, 40-yea...
A man who pleaded guilty to shooting a Milwaukee police officer and stealing his squad car last year has been sentenced to 40 years in prison. A Milwaukee County judge sentenced Jetrin Rodthong, 23, on Thursday for shooting Officer Herbert Davis III as the...
A North Carolina mother is speaking out after her son sent her a photo from his classroom showing his mouth taped shut in a disciplinary measure taken by his teacher. Catherine Webster told WRAL-TV that her 11-year-old son Brady had sent her a photo last mo...