The Senate passed legislation Thursday authorizing the Federal Aviation Administration for the next five years over the objections of Virginia and Maryland Democrats who sought to block a provision adding ten additional flights into or out of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Cornell University President Martha Pollack will step down June 30 after seven years in the role, heading off conjecture about her departure amid campus protest turmoil by insisting the move was hers.

A Florida sheriff's deputy announced himself as law enforcement just before fatally shooting a Black U.S. Air Force airman inside his apartment in the state's Panhandle, according to body camera video shown to reporters Thursday.

Xavier University of Louisiana has reversed course and canceled Saturday's planned commencement address by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield after news of her appearance sparked outrage among some students.

A man acquitted of having a supporting role in the plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said he's running for county sheriff.

A judge found Thursday that Beach Boys founder and music luminary Brian Wilson should be in a court conservatorship to manage his personal and medical decisions because of what his doctor calls a "major neurocognitive disorder."

A new law in Iowa that makes it a crime to be in the state if previously denied admission to the U.S. conflicts with federal law and could lead to the deportation of people who are legally in the country, civil rights and immigrant rights groups argue in a federal lawsuit filed Thursday.

Former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry has been charged with lying to federal authorities about a foreign billionaire's illegal $30,000 contribution to his campaign, reviving a case that was derailed by an appellate court.

A top former aide to U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar and a political and business consultant have agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to help the Democrat congressman from Texas launder more than $200,000 in bribes and to assist prosecutors in a federal criminal investigation, according to court documents unsealed this week.

Recent research has brought new life to the concept of traveling faster than the speed of light, a technology once confined to the realms of science fiction, particularly popularized as "warp drive" speed in the series "Star Trek."

California regulators on Thursday voted to change how some power companies calculate their customers' bills, a decision that will make it less expensive for people to charge electric cars and cool their homes in the summer but will increase prices for those who don't use as much energy.

A Florida sheriff's deputy announced himself as law enforcement just before fatally shooting a Black U.S. Air Force airman inside his apartment in the state's Panhandle, according to body camera video shown to reporters Thursday.

A recent survey brought to light a concerning health issue affecting the United States: nearly one-third of Americans report living with constant pain.

Harvey Weinstein will remain locked up in New York as a court works out whether he should stay in a city jail while awaiting retrial or be sent to California to serve his prison sentence for rape there.

Utilities looking to finish building a high-voltage power line linking Iowa and Wisconsin completed a contentious land deal Thursday that allows them to build on a Mississippi River federal wildlife refuge.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it found "insufficient evidence" that racial discrimination shaped decisions made by two Mississippi agencies about water system funding for the state's majority-Black capital city of Jackson.

A North Carolina student suspended for using the term "illegal aliens" in class has sued the school district, saying he was bullied and ostracized after being falsely "branded as a racist."

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The U.S. Air Force's 920th Rescue Wing, based out of Florida, airlifted a 12-year-boy suffering a medical emergency off the Carnival Venezia cruise ship over the weekend.

Four flight attendants based in the New York City area have been charged with smuggling $8 million in drug money to the Dominican Republic during an alleged years-long scheme.

Thieves climbed onto the roof of an Atlanta strip club and entered through the ceiling before using power tools to steal $250,000 from the establishment's safes earlier this week.

More than 100 illegal immigrants in Denver are refusing to leave a tent city unless the city meets their demands.

Mercedes-Benz rejected allegations this week that it has engaged in anti-union tactics at its Vance, Alabama, plant, which is facing a union election this month.

Vermont's Goddard College is among dozens of mostly rural liberal arts campuses that have announced they will close after having received billions of dollars in federal pandemic relief funding.

A Swiss-Italian cruise liner sailed into the Port of Brooklyn in New York with a 44-foot endangered sei whale splayed across its bow last weekend.