As Congress heads toward a week-long Independence Day break, 95% of bills introduced in the current session are still in ...

Uganda's military chief and son of President Yoweri Museveni has ordered the shutdown of a major news organization. On Sunday, soldiers were deployed outside the Kampala offices of the Daily ...

With wildfires raging across the western U.S., cities and states are restricting fireworks as the nation gears up for a big Fourth of July. Utah has banned personal fireworks due ...

Jane Calvert has spent 25 years championing John Dickinson, a lesser-known Revolutionary War figure. Known for not signing the Declaration of Independence, Dickinson was a key voice against British ta ...

A judge called in all the attorneys involved in the wrongful death suit against Karen Read to scold them over leaked impounded information on former State Police Trooper ...

Mayor Michelle Wu has touted Boston as the “safest major city” in America for two years, but the city’s largest police union says the recent spate of violence ...

Maryland disability advocates and caregivers braced for sweeping cuts to Developmental Disabilities Administration services Wednesday — then learned the night before that the state was delaying key ...

Tropical Storm Douglas has formed in the Pacific Ocean. The National Hurricane Center said Wednesday the center of the cyclone was at sea and poses no threat to land. Douglas ...

North Carolina lawmakers took key votes on the long-awaited $34 billion budget Wednesday. Both the House and Senate gave tentative approval to the major spending plan, with final votes set ...

Apple Inc. is in negotiations to purchase chips from two Chinese semiconductor makers on a Pentagon blacklist to help reduce the impact of a global memory shortage that’s forced the ...

A daredevil couple has been arrested after scaling the Empire State Building’s antenna and unfurling a banner about “the power of love” and peace. It was apparently part of an ...

A town manager is shooting down “online trolls” who he says are posting misinformation that his Cape Cod community has banned American flags ahead of the Fourth of ...