Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico reported new measles cases Tuesday, with the outbreak expanding for the first time into central Texas.

A federal judge has declined to block the use of Georgia's electronic voting system in a long-running lawsuit alleging that the system is vulnerable to attack and has operational issues that could deprive voters of their constitutional rights.

Hooters is going bust.

From the southwestern U.S. to Minnesota, Iowa and even parts of New Jersey, it seemed that winter never materialized.

In the state battles to adopt the lowest and most attractive tax policies, South Carolina Republicans are making an interesting gambit: they want to raise income taxes for about 60% of filers in 2026.

Connecticut police have released more than 100 photos showing the inside of a home where a 32-year-old man said he started a fire in a desperate attempt to free himself from more than 20 years of captivity.

The tip of Michigan's mitten struggled through another day without electricity Tuesday as restless residents tried to stay warm while utilities scrambled to restore power in a region waylaid by weekend freezing rain that brought down countless trees and poles.

A fire burned down a Long Island cat shelter, killing its founder, who lived there, and at least 59 of the felines he rescued, authorities said.

The Social Security Administration said Tuesday that it is investigating the root cause of website outages that have affected the "my Social Security" portal where recipients access their benefits.

A University of Minnesota graduate business student who's being held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement is suing for his immediate release, saying his arrest violated his rights and he's been given little explanation for why he's being held.

Thousands of people responsible for tracking health trends and disease outbreaks, conducting and funding medical research, monitoring the safety of food and medicine, and administering health insurance programs for nearly half of the country were laid off Tuesday at the nation's top health agencies.

The Supreme Court grappled Tuesday with whether Americans can sue the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority for damages when they or family members are injured in a terrorist attack.

A box truck crashed into a building Tuesday afternoon in Boston's Chinatown neighborhood and then hit several pedestrians, injuring at least six, the city's police and emergency services said.

Multiple homemade explosive devices were found near an open suitcase at a park in Texas, prompting a lockdown and an investigation by the FBI.

The Department of Health and Human Services has halted millions in grant payments to a maze of organizations, including nine Planned Parenthood affiliates, pending a review of their compliance with federal law.

You can't miss Peeps on store shelves - those rows of bright yellow, purple and blue marshmallow creatures with their simple dot eyes and rounded forms. Their distinctive, minimalist design makes Peeps blank canvases for creative exploration.

Hugs, tears, barking and tail wagging abounded at San Quentin's prison when two black Labradors reunited with the incarcerated men who helped raise them to be service dogs.

There are just two Planned Parenthood clinics in South Carolina, but every year they take hundreds of low-income patients who need things like contraception, cancer screenings and pregnancy testing.

Jury selection began Tuesday in the retrial of Karen Read, less than a year after a judge declared a mistrial on charges that she was responsible for the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend.

A Gulf War Army veteran convicted of the shotgun slayings of his girlfriend and her three children has been scheduled for execution in Florida, the fourth death warrant signed this year by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

National restaurant chain Hooters has filed for bankruptcy and aims to be bought out by franchisees, including the chain's founder.

Nonprofit agencies that dispense private school scholarships to low-income families say they expect Congress to pass tax credit legislation giving them $10 billion for another 2 million students.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said Tuesday that federal prosecutors will pursue the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of gunning down United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in front of a New York hotel last year.

Federal prosecutors in California on Monday said a jury found a transgender prostitute guilty of killing a man who wanted his money back after discovering the sex worker was a biological man.

Packed pews, rollicking singing and emotional devotions have marked Lent worship services at Notre Dame d'Haiti, the Catholic church at the heart of the largest Haitian diaspora in the United States. For a community caught in the crossfire of growing violence in their island homeland and disappearing humanitarian protections in the U.S., clinging to faith ...