Political leaders in Alaska have welcomed President-elect Donald Trump’s pledges to expand oil production. They hope he will undo restrictions imposed by the Biden administration on vast swaths of ...

When Massachusetts voters decided to ditch the state’s high school graduation exams on Election Day, they joined a growing trend that has steadily chipped away at the use of high-stakes tests for the ...

Associated Press There’s one exercise group that says you really can keep up with outdoor workouts through the winter. It’s called November Project. It was founded in Boston a dozen years ago but has ...

A Democratic candidate for the Arizona state Senate was killed when his vehicle was hit by a suspected drunk driver Friday morning, a day after he conceded the race to his GOP rival. John McLean, 68, ...

Two men are accused of helping illegally smuggle Indian nationals across the U.S.-Canada border and into Minnesota, including four members of an Indian family who froze to death in 2022. Their federal ...

At a secretive factory in Russia’s central grasslands, engineers are manufacturing hundreds of decoy drones meant to overwhelm Ukrainian defenses as they try to protect against a horrific new weapon, ...

Democratic Rep. Jim Costa won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing California on Friday. Costa was first elected to the U.S. House in 2005 after spending roughly 24 years in the state ...

Election certification meetings on Friday in Nevada’s two most populous counties were roiled by voting conspiracies while local officials in the state’s rural counties quietly approved election ...

A federally protected female Mexican wolf was found dead in an area near the northern Arizona city of Flagstaff, alarming environmentalists who worry someone may have deliberately killed the animal.

A school district in northwest Oregon has put its superintendent and high school principal on leave and accepted the school board chair’s resignation. The moves come after students and parents have ...

The attorney who represents two women who were witnesses in the House Ethics Committee probe into former congressman Matt Gaetz said Friday that one of his clients told the panel she saw the ...

The United States has stepped up its campaign to transform the Kenya-led multinational force in Haiti into a U.N. peacekeeping force, spurred by escalating gang violence that shut all air traffic to ...