Inflation in the United States cooled slightly last month after three elevated readings, likely offering a tentative sigh of relief for officials at the Federal Reserve as well as President Joe Biden's re-election team.

The agency says about 107,500 people died of overdoses in the U.S. last year. That's down 3% from 2022.

For decades, American schools have been re-segregating. Around 4 out of 10 Black and Hispanic students go to schools where almost every one of their classmates is another student of color.

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump say they've accepted a CNN invitation to debate June 27.

Michael Cohen's testimony is about purposefully mislabeled checks, false receipts and blind loyalty, underscoring that it's not about the spectacle of what Trump was paying for, but rather his effort to illegally cover up those payments.

The judge Tuesday rejected Hunter Biden's request to delay the trial until September, which his lawyers said was necessary to give the defense time to line up witnesses and go through evidence from prosecutors.

In the coming days, the U.S. military is expected to jab one end of a metal dock into a beach in northern Gaza. And that may be the end of the easy part for an effort to open a sea route to get humanitarian aid into Gaza.

Two congressional candidates on opposite sides of the 2021 Capitol insurrection serve as a stark reminder that the nation remains deeply divided over the deadly attack.

Attorneys for the creators argued in the lawsuit that the law violates users' First Amendment rights to free speech, echoing legal arguments made by TikTok in a separate lawsuit filed by the company last week.

Lauren Handy declined to address the court before a U.S. district judge sentenced her on Tuesday to four years and nine months in prison.

Society for Family Planning issued its #WeCount survey Tuesday showing providers in states with laws that seek to protect them from prosecution by other states were writing prescriptions that covered about 1 in 10 abortions nationally.

The U.S. government has a specialized plane loaded with advanced sensors that the EPA brags is always ready to deploy within an hour of any kind of chemical disaster. But it didn't fly in eastern Ohio until four days after last year's derailment.

Federal officials warn about the health risks of drinking raw milk at any time, but especially during the outbreak.

The star prosecution witness at Donald Trump's hush money trial says Trump was intimately involved with all aspects of a scheme to stifle stories about sex that threatened to torpedo his 2016 campaign.

The corruption trial of Sen. Bob Menendez has begun in Manhattan federal court as dozens of prospective jurors were told about the case.

A Missouri man who crashed a rental truck into White House barriers and showed a Nazi flag before his arrest last year has pleaded guilty to damaging government property.

Despite pro-Palestinian protests roiling some U.S. college campuses this spring, graduation ceremonies are going off largely peacefully so far.

The demolition Monday marks a major step in freeing the grounded Dali container ship. The span landed on the ship's bow after the Dali lost power and crashed into one of the bridge's support columns.

The daily struggle to find work for Chinese immigrants living illegally in a borough of New York is a far cry from the picture Donald Trump and other Republicans have sought to paint.

The Senate has passed a $105 billion bill designed to improve air safety and customer service for air travelers, a day before the law governing the Federal Aviation Administration expires.

Hardline Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tried and failed in sudden action Wednesday to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, her longshot effort swiftly and resoundingly rejected by Democrats and Republicans.

Former longtime Donald Trump adviser Hope Hicks recounted how his 2016 presidential campaign became embroiled in a political firestorm over a tape in which he boasted about grabbing women without their permission.

The U.S. Department of Justice said the couple surrendered to authorities on Friday and were taken into custody. It said they made an initial appearance before a federal judge in Houston and were each released on $100,000 bond.

The Justice Department argued Friday that Google's preeminence as an internet search engine is an illegal monopoly propped up by more than $20 billion spent each year by the tech giant to lock out competition.

Maui County is suing major cellular carriers for failing to properly inform police of widespread service outages during the height of last summer's deadly wildfire.