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A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that California’s ban on openly carrying firearms in most parts of the state was unconstitutional.

An 18-year-old from Mint Hill planned to use knives and hammers to kill people in a grocery store and fast-food restaurant in an ISIS-inspired New Year’s Eve attack, U.S. Attorney Russ Ferguson said Friday. FBI agents foiled Christian Sturdivant’s plans and charged him with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, Ferguson said at a news conference after ...

When Charlotte LaRoy was in elementary school, she had a quiet revelation. Paper napkins are beautiful. It was the 1940s, she was the daughter of a federal food-safety scientist, and she was just discovering the spectacular variety of face-and-finger wipes.

WASHINGTON – A federal judge on Friday ordered that the man accused of planting pipe bombs in Washington the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack should remain behind bars while his case moves forward.

Many of those injured in the deadly fire that engulfed a bar in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana during New Year celebrations are fighting for their lives, as officials started investigating the tragedy.

Venezuelans awoke Friday to mounting reports that a narrow stretch of coastline near its border with Colombia may have been the target of a U.S. military strike — a move that would mark a sharp escalation in Washington’s pressure campaign against the Nicolás Maduro regime. The suspected strike occurred in the western reaches of the Gulf of Venezuela, between Puerto López in Colombia’s La ...

A 6.5 magnitude earthquake shook the Mexican state of Guerrero in the southern part of the country on Friday, Jan. 2, according to the United States Geological Survey.

WASHINGTON – More than two years after a Dallas postal worker died from heat exposure on the job, letter carriers say the United States Postal Service has yet to take steps required to fully protect them when the temperature and humidity soar. The 2023 death of Eugene Gates Jr. prompted a federal citation and $15,625 fine against the Postal Service, along with renewed calls from union leaders ...

President Donald Trump pledged that the U.S. will come to the rescue of Iranian protesters if they are attacked by Islamic Republic authorities.

KYIV – President Volodymyr Zelenskyy named Ukraine’s military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov as his top adviser on Friday and proposed a drone and digitalization specialist as defense minister.

At least seven people have been killed in Iran as violence escalates amid a new wave of anti-government protests that continued for a fifth day on Thursday.

Day care operators say the Trump administration’s restrictions on federal child care funding unfairly punish them over a conservative activist’s fraud allegations against Minnesota centers that are undercut by state records and disputed by some of the owners.

The White House on Wednesday laid out a nine-week timeline to win approval for President Donald Trump’s proposed ballroom, even as one federal review panel said it has yet to receive formal building plans and basic details of the project remain unclear.

The Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., ended the first year of President Donald Trump's second term with a record of rulings that gave him much broader power to control the federal government.

California has delayed its cancellation of thousands of commercial driver's licenses held by migrants, setting it up for another showdown with Washington. The Department of Motor Vehicles announced on Tuesday that the 17,000 migrant truck drivers whose licenses had been revoked can now keep them for 60 more days, which could enable the drivers to retake tests and do whatever is necessary to ...