U.S. & World

Mississippi has the highest percentage of Black residents of any state. It has been home, as have other states, to legal fights over desegregation.

The California Journalism Preservation Act still needs to be approved by the state Senate and signed by Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom to become law.

Men are increasingly having kids at older ages in the U.S., but doctors say that comes with health risks for the baby, including prematurity and birth defects.

A former Playboy model who alleges Bill Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her and another woman at his home in 1969 is suing the entertainer in Los Angeles.

Customers of Venmo, PayPal and CashApp should not store their money for the long term with these apps because their funds might not be safe during a crisis, a new report has found.

Parents leaving their young children in hot cars continues to be an issue in the United States.

President Joe Biden fell on stage at the U.S. Air Force Academy graduation Thursday and the White House said he was “fine” after tripping over a sandbag.

Congratulations are in order for a new mother at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, where they celebrated the birth of an endangered kangaroo.

More than 90% of Spirit Airlines’ flights were delayed on Thursday due to a technical issue that affected its website, app and airport kiosks.

Despite a report indicating that the Iowa apartment building was in imminent risk of crumbling, residents were allowed to stay inside.

A Republican measure overturning President Joe Biden’s student loan cancellation plan passed the Senate on Thursday and now awaits an expected veto.

A member of the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group who was part of a security detail for former President Donald Trump’s longtime adviser Roger Stone before storming the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to more than four years in prison.

A revised version of a federal policy that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children is scheduled to be debated before a federal judge in Houston who previously ruled the program illegal.