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President Joe Biden during his visit to a Mississippi town ravaged by a deadly tornado vowed that the federal government is “not leaving” until the area is back on its feet.

Hundreds of young people gathered on the lawn of the Vermont Statehouse on Friday as part of a nationwide series of events to help build support for transgender rights amid what they denounced as an increasingly hostile climate.

The body of a 2-year-old Florida boy who had been the subject of a frantic search after his mother was slain was found Friday in a lake in the jaws of an alligator, police said.

Former attorney and convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh is in the protective custody unit of a maximum security prison, according to officials.

Animal services say one of their longtime furry residents has found a new home.

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman has left Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after six weeks of inpatient treatment for clinical depression, with plans to return to the Senate when the chamber resumes session in mid-April, his office said Friday.

Authorities say a man with a long criminal past has been arrested after a person he punched died.

Attorneys for several insurance companies are appealing a federal judge’s decision to uphold the confirmation of a $2.4 billion bankruptcy reorganization plan for the Boy Scouts of America.

Tate, a divisive internet personality, spent months in a Romanian jail on suspicion of organized crime and human trafficking,

Superior Court Judge Eric Davis ruled that neither Fox nor Dominion Voting Systems had presented a convincing argument to prevail on whether Fox acted with malice without the case going to a jury.

Two HH-60 Black Hawk helicopters crashed Wednesday night, killing all nine soldiers aboard the two aircrafts.

The city of Minneapolis and the Minnesota Department of Human Rights signed a “court-enforceable settlement agreement” Friday to revamp policing in the city where George Floyd was murdered by an officer nearly three years ago.

A dog missing for three years is finally back home.

Family and friends of Evelyn Dieckhaus, one of three children who were killed in a school shooting in Nashville this week, remembered her Friday as a “shining light” and said farewell to a girl who loved art, music, animals and snuggling with her older sister on the couch.

Sophia Negroponte, 30, of Washington, D.C., was convicted in January of second-degree murder in the 2020 death of 24-year-old Yousuf Rasmussen.

The decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency allows California to require truck manufacturers to sell an increasing number of zero-emission trucks over the next couple of decades.

A man running through traffic on the interstate in Texas late Thursday night climbed a semi-truck and fell to his death, police said.

As Donald Trump fought his way to victory in the 2016 presidential campaign, key allies tried to smooth his bumpy path by paying off two women who had been thinking of going public with allegations of extramarital encounters with the Republican.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Bucha, a town near Kyiv, stands as a symbol of the atrocities the Russian military has committed since its full-scale invasion began in February 2022.

A codefendant in the case against actor Alec Baldwin in the fatal 2021 shooting of a cinematographer on a movie set in New Mexico was convicted Friday of unsafe handling of a firearm and sentenced to six months of probation.

A dramatic rescue of a 4-year-old boy in New Jersey was caught on camera.

In a highly unusual ruling, a state court judge on Thursday voided a U.S. Marine’s adoption of an Afghan war orphan, more than a year after he took the little girl away from the Afghan couple raising her. But her future remains uncertain.

A high school student says his hard work has paid off when it comes to attending college.

Biden’s answer on Friday was the same each time: No comment, no comment, no comment.

Investigators are working to identify which brands are included.

The March 24 blast at R.M. Palmer killed seven of Borges’s co-workers and injured 10.

The U.S. Department of Justice said it’s seeking to hold the company accountable for “unlawfully polluting the nation’s waterways."

The leader of Belarus spoke during his state-of-the-nation address on Friday, amid escalating tensions over the conflict in Ukraine.

Authorities are investigating an armed robbery involving an armored vehicle.

Pope Francis is expected to be discharged on Saturday from the Rome hospital where he is being treated for bronchitis as his recovery proceeds in a “normal” way, and the pontiff even had pizza for dinner, the Vatican said.