Aggrieved and defiant, former President Donald Trump sat through hours of sometimes testy opening statements Monday in a fraud lawsuit that could cost him control of Trump Tower and other prized properties.

It's a groundbreaking step that military leaders have long resisted.

The United Auto Workers union expanded its strikes against Detroit automakers, ordering 7,000 more workers to walk off the job in Illinois and Michigan.

An inflation gauge closely tracked by the Federal Reserve rose in August, boosted mainly by higher gas prices.

The deluge Friday stranded drivers on highways, knocked out several subway and commuter rail lines, and shuttered a terminal at LaGuardia Airport.

The estimated $960 million prize up for grabs Saturday night is the world's ninth-largest lottery jackpot.

Friday's vote a day before the deadline makes a government shutdown almost certain. The vote was 198-232, with 21 hard-right Republicans voting to sink the package.

Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein served as California's senior senator since 1992 and was one of several trailblazing women elected to Congress that year.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is digging in on his refusal to take up Senate legislation designed to keep the federal government fully running beyond midnight Saturday.

The Pentagon says that the American soldier who sprinted into North Korea across the heavily fortified border between the Koreas more than two months ago was whisked to a Texas Army base for medical checks and interviews after his return to the U.S.

President Joe Biden has issued one of his most dire warnings yet that Donald Trump and his allies are a menace to American democracy.

House Republicans have spent a long hearing making their case for pursuing an impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden.

Lawmakers probing the cause of last month's deadly Maui wildfire did not get many answers during Thursday's congressional hearing on the role the electrical grid played in the disaster.

The curtain is finally coming down on Netflix's once-iconic DVD-by-mail service, a quarter century after two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs came up with the concept.

Hollywood actors will resume negotiations with studios and streaming services next week.

The U.S. West Coast produces over 90% of America's wine, but it's also prone to wildfires — a combustible combination that spelled disaster in 2020 for the industry and one that scientists are scrambling to neutralize.

A House test vote is set for Friday, one day before the shutdown deadline.

Former President Donald Trump was in battleground Michigan working to win over blue-collar voters in the midst of an autoworkers' strike.

Dozens of people face criminal charges after authorities said groups of thieves working together smashed their way into stores in several areas of Philadelphia and fled with merchandise.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey will address his Democratic colleagues on Thursday as calls grow for Menendez to resign over federal bribery charges.

The answer may lie in an overgrown gully beneath Hawaiian Electric Co. power lines and something that harbored smoldering embers from the first fire and rekindled into a wall of flame.

The Biden administration has admitted Israel into a select group of countries whose citizens are allowed to travel to the United States without getting a visa in advance.

TV's late-night hosts planned to return to their regular evening sketches and monologues as the flow of topical humor is set to return after five silent months due to the just-ended Hollywood writers' strike.

DNA research has found that our Homo sapiens ancestors mated with Neanderthals and Denisovans long ago.

Wednesday night's jackpot is the world's ninth-largest lottery prize of all time.