The mother of a 15-year-old Ghanaian student fatally shot on his way to school in the Bronx arrived on an emergency visa, as police continue searching for three teenage suspects.
A Brand Park maintenance worker emptying a trash can got a surprise: a four-foot ball python inside, with no clue how it got there.
A deer that broke through a pool cover and couldn't find footing in the half-drained water rescued itself — once firefighters gave it a ladder to climb.
Jacob Allen Morley, serving life for a 2022 killing, was traced through license-plate cameras to a muddy Missouri field after fleeing a stolen truck and a hunting-camp hideout.
Claude Moore began making rubber band balls during childhood hospital visits. A decade later, Guinness says his garage project is the heaviest ever built.
A Massachusetts judge set a November 16 hearing to rule on motions that will shape a second trial, which could begin as soon as March after a jury deadlocked in September.
Turnout is running far ahead of the last midterm in Texas, Georgia and beyond, though analysts caution that heavy early voting measures enthusiasm, not which party will win.
A Learjet 60 bound for the Bahamas plunged into a Palm Beach County neighborhood after the pilot reported icing and an uncontrollable descent, with all nine aboard killed.
Harris County's district attorney says body-camera footage contradicts ICE's account of the October pursuit that injured Miguel Parra-Hernandez.
Ron Wallace's 3,156-pound entry smashed the old mark by nearly 300 pounds at a Rhode Island weigh-off, becoming the first pumpkin ever to top 3,000 pounds.
A hacktivist group calling itself Department of Peace says it pulled the trove — dubbed "Icepick" — through a compromised Okta login, as scrutiny of ICE tactics intensifies.
From Mary Peltola's Yup'ik boots to Ashley Hinson's flag-bedazzled heels, candidates are leaning on wardrobe as a campaign message in the final days before the midterms.
A flight instructor, a visiting British student pilot and the sole occupant of a second aircraft were killed when a training helicopter and an Airbus helicopter collided near McMinnville Municipal Airport.
A Nebraska grand jury has indicted a Kenyan national in a nationwide fraud that enrolled fake students in American colleges using stolen identities, part of a probe dubbed Operation Ghostbusters.
A group called Department of Peace says it breached a single sign-on service to expose names, addresses and operation details for agents across ICE, CBP and other Homeland Security units.
The administration says scrapping the 2024 rule will save consumers and drillers $45 billion, but records show industry groups met with regulators dozens of times to help unwind it, and environmental groups say the rollback hands profits to the biggest polluters.
The trio used fake dating-site identities to lure elderly victims across 25 US states and two European countries into believing they were in real relationships, then persuaded them to wire money to accounts in Ghana.
The National Weather Service is warning of flooded roads and inundated homes from San Diego to the Bay Area as tides run as high as 8 feet through Thursday.
Proposition 40 would levy a one-time 5% tax on the state's 200-plus billionaires to raise $100 billion for health care — and at least six, including Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin, have already left the state.
Hobbyists who can legally brew beer and wine at home still face up to five years in prison for distilling spirits — a Reconstruction-era rule the justices will weigh reversing next year.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the department has spent two months dismantling dozens of Chinese-funded cultural centers operating under new names on American campuses.
Means, a senior adviser to RFK Jr. and co-author of the 'MAHA bible,' quit amid reported frustration that corporate interests have stalled the movement's food-policy agenda.
In her first interview since federal agents searched her Washington residence, the Minnesota Democrat denied allegations of immigration fraud and said she has 'a legal right to be a member of Congress.'
SEIU Local 1000, representing roughly 100,000 nurses, teachers and other state employees, is pushing Governor Newsom's administration for higher wages, telework flexibility and more affordable healthcare.
Homeland Security kept Temporary Protected Status in place two weeks before the midterms, without saying how long the reprieve will last.
Attorney General Lynn Fitch ruled an officer was justified in firing into a car that killed one-year-old Kohen Wiley in June; the family's lawyer is demanding the release of body-camera footage.
Mitchell Fairbarn, 34, testified he had downed 30 to 40 beers before carrying a bird named Peachy to his room because he thought it would be "funny." A jury took five hours to convict him.
Troopers said they're used to loose dogs, cats and deer — a flightless Australian bird weaving between cars near Harper Street was a first.
In its 22nd year, the West Coast Giant Pumpkin Regatta turned hollowed-out squash into racing boats on a Tualatin lake.
The Norte fire tore through Orange County neighborhoods as Santa Ana winds fanned three separate blazes across the region, with red-flag conditions forecast to persist into Saturday evening.
Ron Wallace's giant pumpkin became the first to break the 3,000-pound mark at a Rhode Island weigh-off, and Guinness World Records says the record is on track to be confirmed.
Evacuation orders were issued in several areas Thursday as fire crews responded to multiple blazes fueled by dry heat and gusty winds, authorities said.
A 16-year-old forced his way into Silver Rail Elementary in Bend, Oregon, by firing through locked doors Thursday afternoon, killing three young children and a teacher before an armed bystander pursued him inside and killed him.
DNA testing led investigators to a family match more than four years after boaters spotted the barrel as drought exposed the reservoir's bed.
September's inflation report and a new Harris poll both show deepening anxiety over the cost of living, with independents and some Republicans turning against Trump's economic record.
Four paddlers steered pumpkins weighing hundreds of pounds at Stillwater's Harvest Fest, with one repeat champion taking the trophy for the third time.
A Las Vegas judge told Duane 'Keffe D' Davis 'the world never forgot about' Shakur as she closed the book on one of hip-hop's most notorious cold cases.
A Pick 3 drawing landed on 0-0-0 this week, and 4,917 North Carolina tickets cashed in — a reminder of just how many players gravitate toward the same 'lucky' combinations.
Archbishop Timothy Broglio said troops assigned to the Fort Hood shooter's firing squad should ask to be excused, deepening bipartisan unease over the Pentagon's plan to broadcast the December execution.
Woody Lancaster capped his final competitive season by breaking the Topsfield Fair's giant-pumpkin record, edging out last year's 2,507-pound winner.
Vice President JD Vance says he won't watch if the Army carries out its plan to broadcast Nidal Hasan's firing-squad execution, the first US military execution in more than six decades.
An ICE agent shot and wounded a man during an arrest in the Bronx with a five-year-old reportedly in the car, prompting protests and a sharp rebuke from Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
With sustained winds at 110 mph and landfall expected overnight, Florida, Alabama and Georgia have declared emergencies as experts warn FEMA's post-cut workforce is about to face its sternest test yet.
Wastewater workers in Sheffield pulled a grimy ring out of a clogged sewer line and traced two faint initials back to a 79-year-old man who had no idea it had ever gone missing.
Jamaal Howard was put to death with the same drug that failed to kill Tennessee inmate Christa Pike, despite last-ditch appeals citing the state's degraded drug supply.
Two electric scooters, a loveseat and a busy stretch of South Tryon Street combined for a traffic stop that officers said they couldn't just drive past.
The Pentagon says the president signed off on Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's recommendation, setting up the US military's first execution by firing squad since the end of World War Two.
A raccoon slipped into a candlelight Mass at a Greenwich Village church days before the Feast of St. Francis, and the pastor who walked it back outside says the timing was hard to miss.
A Gulfstream air-ambulance jet carrying six people vanished early Saturday on a flight from Bermuda to Boston; searchers worked through the night off the Massachusetts coast.
Commissioner Frank Strada steps down and all executions in the state are paused as Governor Bill Lee orders an independent review of Wednesday's botched lethal injection.
A brown bear nicknamed Backpack topped Katmai National Park's annual weight-gain tournament, edging a rival bear in Tuesday's final.
A Miami jury's verdict against the Florida Republican exposed a secret lobbying campaign that reached Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Swayze wore the camera through the ceremony; millions of views followed.
'Not all heroes wear capes,' the town said of the rescue team that hoisted the trapped deer to safety.
The suits invoke a Reconstruction-era civil rights law and name top Trump administration officials, nine months after a legal observer was shot dead during an immigration sweep.
A bovine escapee from a Polk County livestock auction turned a commute into a rodeo before being safely recaptured.
Officials are exploring automatic enrollment for up to 73 million minors in the federally seeded savings accounts, a leap from the 6.5 million opened by parents since the program's July launch.
Wildlife officers hazed the animal out of the Aspen Saturday Market as Colorado logs a record year for bear encounters.
The Supreme Court denied a final appeal Tuesday night, clearing the way for Tennessee's first execution of a woman in more than two centuries.
A Bowie man says he was stunned when two identical Pick 5 tickets his son grabbed for him on a whim both hit for $50,000 apiece.
Heavy surf exposed wooden timbers on Nantucket's south shore that researchers believe belong to the schooner Warren Sawyer, lost off the island in 1884.
A rare late-September storm pounded the East Coast with wind gusts near 60 mph and threatening tides, flooding shore towns from New Jersey to Cape Cod.
Barring a last-minute reprieve, Pike would become the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than two centuries for a 1995 murder she committed at 18.
A parking-lot attempt at the world's largest human jigsaw puzzle fell short in upstate New York, but a 40,000-piece Disney puzzle and two other record bids kept puzzlers busy for eight hours.
A menacing, often AI-generated take on Dr. Seuss's Cat in the Hat has spread as a viral threat trend, prompting police responses, school alerts and at least 10 juvenile arrests nationwide.
A powerful, out-of-season coastal storm threatens a month's worth of rain, 60 mph gusts and major tidal flooding from North Carolina to Maine heading into the weekend.
A canopy and weapons-bay door from an Australian F-35 went missing in transit to the U.S. in May, and Beijing has yet to give them back.
An armored vehicle showed up outside an Arvada home mid-feud, drawing police, a raised gun and cameras from an A24 docuseries about warring neighbors.
The Justice Department says White House access is a "privilege, not a right," as three news organizations ask a federal court to restore their credentials.
CNN, MS NOW and Politico sued the administration over their White House ban, hours before a boycotting press pool left the president's own remarks unheard.
North Canton officers freed a full-grown deer from a backyard hammock, a call the department says it had never handled before.
An Illinois grower's monster gourd broke his home state's 11-year-old record and beat out a Kentucky entry by less than 12 pounds at a brand-new county fair weigh-off.
A great-great-grandfather born in 1907 and a great-great-grandson born in 2025 both arrived on September 14 — one of five generations of the same southwest Iowa family now certified by Guinness as sharing a single birthday.
A notice of claim filed ahead of the one-year anniversary of Kirk's killing alleges Utah Valley University ignored a specific warning about rooftop access before the fatal shooting.
A video claiming a tiger was loose near Six Flags Great Adventure flooded Jackson Township's 911 lines overnight. Police say every big cat at the park is exactly where it should be.
A congressionally mandated inspector general report puts the six-month campaign's cost at $33.4 billion and finds bottlenecks in resupplying rockets, explosives and skilled labor.
A flightless bird's dash from a Rockland County petting zoo drew officers and a police drone before it was captured unharmed and returned home.
Air Force Secretary Troy Meink said the United States has 'on-orbit space control weapons,' the most direct acknowledgment yet of Washington's space-warfare capability.
Serial record-breaker David Rush, who holds more than 200 Guinness titles at once, added a paper-aircraft-folding record to the pile at a pace of one plane every 8.67 seconds.
Wildlife rescuers are hunting for the vehicle — and the driver — that unknowingly chauffeured an alpine rodent into the Mission District.
A West Allis couple got the shock of the weekend when the object stuck in their car's engine compartment turned out to be a four-foot snake, not car maintenance debris.
Police arrested Jarques Ratliff, 51, after the state medical examiner ruled the death of 29-year-old Tasia Fortune a homicide, five weeks after her body was found behind an abandoned home.
Families will lead an all in-person reading of the 2,977 victims' names at Ground Zero as the president marks the day at the Pentagon for a second straight year.
NOAA says the Lower 48 states just recorded their hottest summer in 132 years of record-keeping, narrowly surpassing the Dust Bowl-era heat of 1936 as drought expands across the West.
With the season at its climatological peak and not a single hurricane yet, forecasters say a decades-old record could fall within a day.
Flight data from the Boeing 767 that overshot a Miami runway and killed five people shows the crew added thrust consistent with an aborted landing seconds before the plane went off the pavement, investigators said.
A string of Sasquatch sightings sent a small-town Maine police force on "a lengthy, exhaustive" hunt — that ended with a shrug and a costume.
A Category 2 storm passed just west of Kauai and Niihau overnight, prompting school and office closures as officials warned of flash floods and dangerous surf.
A Boeing 767 freighter flying for Amazon Prime Air ran off the runway and struck vehicles on a nearby road Sunday afternoon, killing five people and triggering an NTSB investigation.
A homeowner's 911 call about banging upstairs turned out to be a wild bobcat, not an intruder, in a Washington state house near Seattle.
A gunman carrying a list of LGBTQ+ venues killed two men outside a Tucson bar before turning the gun on himself, police say, reigniting debate over hate-fueled gun violence.
Nine contestants, judged on wardrobe and pizza preferences, competed under the Washington Square Arch for a shot at a $100 prize and bragging rights as the mayor's double.
Jurors could not agree on whether the former nurse who strangled her three children was criminally responsible or in the grip of postpartum psychosis, leaving prosecutors to decide whether to seek a retrial.
Matt Little plans to shake more than 13,000 hands in eight hours Saturday, chasing a Guinness record that has stood since New Mexico's governor set it in 2002.
A bull ran free along Highway 35 above Half Moon Bay for hours before sheriff's deputies called in an off-duty wrangler, who lassoed it twice — after his rope snapped — around 2:30 a.m.
A gunman evicted from his high-rise apartment hours earlier opened fire inside the building Wednesday, killing two people and wounding three police officers before he was found dead — the toll still being finalized as investigators pieced together a monthslong trail of warning signs.
Police in Montclair are investigating two separate scams that together siphoned more than 30,000 cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon from an Anheuser-Busch distribution center — and PBR turned the heist into a punchline.
Edouard came ashore near Johnson Bayou, Louisiana with 60 mph winds before weakening rapidly, leaving heavy rainfall and flash-flood risk as the main threat across southeastern Texas.
A 4th District judge found sufficient evidence for Tyler Robinson to stand trial on capital murder and six other counts in the killing of Charlie Kirk, and Robinson entered a not-guilty plea shortly after the ruling.
Two hobbyists sweeping a low-water shoreline at Great Sacandaga Lake tracked down the ring's owner through her old high school and handed it back for free.