Republican Rep. Don Bacon won a fifth term representing the Omaha-centered U.S. House district for Nebraska on Friday. In yet another hard-fought bid, Bacon defeated Democrat Tony Vargas, a state ...

Police arrest a man after 5 people are stabbed in downtown Seattle, bringing stabbing total to 10 in two days.

Police say five people were stabbed and one person was taken into custody in Seattle. The Seattle Police Department said on social media that the stabbing happened Friday afternoon in Seattle’s ...

Teachers in two Massachusetts school districts have gone on strike over pay, paid parental leave and other issues. Teachers ...

Gov. Tim Walz has vowed make Minnesota a safe haven for the values that drove the Democratic presidential ticket he helped ...

Hunger experts are warning that there's “a strong likelihood” famine is imminent in parts of northern Gaza where Israeli ...

Levi Strauss heir and philanthropist Daniel Lurie says he will make streets safer, help small businesses and squash the ...

A jury has awarded more than $12 million to a woman who lost her job at a Michigan insurance company after declining to get a COVID-19 vaccination. Much of the award is for punitive damages against ...

The U.S. government has extended avocado import permissions to Guatemala, but don’t expect that to result in cheaper guacamole anytime soon. For nearly 30 years, Mexico has been practically the only ...

Shoe brand Steve Madden will be cutting the goods that it imports from China by as much as 45% next year as it prepares for the return of President-elect Donald Trump who has pledged to slap steep ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump lavished Christopher Wray with praise when he named him FBI director in 2017, introducing him as an “impeccably qualified individual” and a “model of integrity.” So much ...

A good-governance group is warning of severe consequences if President-elect Donald Trump continues to steer clear of formal transition planning with the Biden administration — inaction that it says ...