With destructive wildfires burning on both coasts, fire officials might use jargon unfamiliar to residents of states where such big blazes are relatively rare

A pregnant woman has filed a lawsuit seeking the right to an abortion in Kentucky

A judge has postponed a decision on whether to undo President-elect Donald Trump’s hush money conviction as prosecutors consider how to proceed in light of last week’s election and his lawyers argue for dismissal so he can run the country

The Northeast is keeping a wary eye on dozens of fires that killed at least one person and continue to burn amid very dry weather

There's some good news about sexually-transmitted diseases in newly released U.S. health data

A Kentucky police officer reprimanded for firing chemical agents at a TV news crew during Louisville protests in 2020 is under investigation again

A newly unsealed federal complaint says a man accused of having a machine gun at Tuskegee University admitted to firing his weapon during a weekend shooting, but denied shooting at anyone

The Supreme Court has refused to let former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows move the election interference case against him in Georgia to federal court, where he would have argued he was immune from prosecution

Control of the U.S. House rests on just over a dozen races where winners have not yet been determined