The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it is searching for the person who stabbed a baby seal multiple times on a beach in Oregon

The crash of a Marine Corps helicopter last year that killed five service members was ultimately caused by pilot error

Three former Memphis officers have been acquitted of all state charges, including second-degree murder, in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols after he ran away from a traffic stop

Most airports around the United States operated smoothly as new REAL ID requirements took effect because travelers without the updated document were still allowed to move through security easily

Attorneys for a Utah man who has been on death row for 37 years are due before a state judge as they seek to spare the convicted murderer from execution because he has dementia

President Donald Trump plans to announce next week that the U.S. will refer to the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf or the Gulf of Arabia

A 5-year-old bear that was a member of a beloved grizzly family in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park has died

A retired U.S. brigadier general who failed to get through the confirmation process in the first Trump administration is getting renewed scrutiny for his political and anti-Islamic social media posts

Birmingham city officials have sued the Alabama governor to stop him from signing of a bill that would strip the city of control over the state’s largest water board

A Michigan court says it won’t accept an appeal from a school shooter who was sentenced to life in prison in 2023 for killing four students and wounding others

The fate of three former Memphis police officers charged in the beating of Tyre Nichols is in the hands of 12 jurors as deliberations began in the Black man’s death

Two teenage basketball players, a coach and a trainer from the Tulsa, Oklahoma, area were among eight people killed in a fiery head-on highway crash in eastern Kansas

The U.S. trade deficit soared to a monthly record of $140.5 billion in March, signaling a rush for imports from businesses and consumers alike ahead of President Donald Trump’s latest — and most sweeping — tariffs taking effect

The Scripps National Spelling Bee won’t be so quick to force spellers into a lightning-round tiebreaker to decide a champion this year

The Catholic bishop of a New Jersey diocese says he would no longer oppose a state grand jury investigation of clergy sexual abuse that the church has been fighting behind closed doors in court for years

The head of Homeland Security says travelers who aren’t REAL ID compliant by the upcoming deadline this week will still be able to fly but should be prepared for extra scrutiny

A Kentucky woman was in a sticky mess when she found stacks of boxes containing lollipops on her doorstep

The National Transportation Safety Board says a deadly explosion that leveled one Missouri home and damaged two others happened after a subcontractor drilled into an unmarked underground gas main while installing fiber optic cable

A lawyer says the teen accused of killing four people in a shooting at Georgia’s Apalachee High School is moving toward pleading guilty

The United States is the home country of 10 of the 133 cardinals eligible to vote for the next pope of the Catholic Church

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has arrived in Washington for a high-stakes meeting with President Donald Trump

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump says he will file a lawsuit against a former Florida sheriff’s deputy and others in the May 2024 shooting death of 23-year-old U.S. Senior Airman Roger Fortson

A town official in upstate New York has been arrested after state police say he shot and wounded a delivery driver who got lost and approached his house seeking directions

Top officials at the Los Angeles firefighters labor union have been suspended

Rescue crews in Texas are searching for a 10-year-old girl swept away by rapidly rising floodwaters and forecasters warn that more heavy rains and flooding could be on the way to the Houston area and the state’s coast