Many flags for ideological causes would be banned in public schools under a proposed Idaho law, in addition to those for LGBTQ+ Pride and political parties.

Since the Los Angeles fires began last week, “Parable of the Sower” and other Octavia Butler works written decades ago have been cited for anticipating a world wracked by climate ...

Republican Gov. Patrick Morrisey has issued a slew of aggressive executive orders on his first day as West Virginia’s chief executive. One order creates a process for families to apply ...

Texas has a powerful new House speaker after years of escalating Republican infighting. Dustin Burrows won the job on Tuesday with the support of Democrats who favored him over a ...

A SpaceX mission set to lift off overnight marks a first for Firefly Aerospace under NASA’s plans to build up American companies to support its lunar ...

Investigators have learned that the gun used to shoot and seriously wound two kindergartners last month at a small faith-based school in Northern California was sold to ...

Kentucky students, including the Kentucky Student Voice Team, on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the state of Kentucky, asserting the state has failed to fulfill its constitutional ...

Southern California residents are facing dire new wildfire warnings and power shutoffs while they prepare to flee at a moment’s notice as fire-fueling winds blasted across the scarred landscape. The ...

Bryan Kohberger’s defense team is considering whether to assert a legal precedent set in another high-profile Idaho murder case in one more push to drop the death ...

In a story published Jan. 10, 2025, about California fire deaths, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Justin Mitchell and his brother were in their 20s and that their father ...

A Florida state lawmaker has filed a bill that would ban some of the state’s public colleges and universities from admitting students who are in the country without legal permission.

Fires that have been burning homes and businesses in Los Angeles for a week have killed at least 24 people, displaced thousands of others and destroyed more than 12,000 structures.