A lawyer for Mexican drug lord known as "El Chapo" says he's ready to defend his client and has nothing to prove; opening statements are delayed while a replacement juror is chosen.

Southern California's huge wildfire has roared back to life

A lawyer says a police officer fatally shot an armed guard who was wearing a hat with 'security' emblazoned across the front and holding a man down following a shooting inside a suburban Chicago bar

BECKLEY, W.Va. – West Virginian Democrat Richard Ojeda, who says he voted for Donald Trump in 2016 only to be called “stone cold crazy” by the president later, has become the first politician to announce his candidacy for his party’s nomination for president.

Amazon has picked locations in New York City and Northern Virginia for its new headquarters, according to a report published late Monday in The Wall Street Journal.

CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta was denied access following a spat with the president.

A U.S. jury is set to hear an epic tale about the notorious Mexican drug lord known as 'El Chapo"

Returning Santa Ana winds have firefighters grappling to corral a devastating Southern California wildfire and hoping new blazes won't erupt

Scientists: Wind and drought to blame for deadly California wildfires, not forest management

There were children and other adults at the home at the time of the shooting, reports say

A broad sell-off in technology companies is pulling U.S. stocks sharply lower, knocking off more than 450 points from the Dow Jones Industrial Average

The Israeli military says it has dispatched fighter jets to strike "terror targets" throughout Gaza following a barrage of mortar and rocket fire that wounded six people

Drought and warmer weather, attributed to climate change, and the building of homes deeper into forests have led to longer and more destructive wildfire seasons in California.

Israeli medics say a 19-year-old man has been critically wounded in an explosion in southern Israel

Acrimony in Georgia governor's race between Republican Kemp and Democrat Abrams highlights growing political diversity of the Deep South state

Former first lady Michelle Obama blasts President Donald Trump in her new book

Democrats are promising congressional action on gun control amid a rash of mass shootings

An expert says a video tweeted by the White House of an interaction between CNN reporter Jim Acosta and a White House intern appears to have been manipulated

Cal Fire captain says entire community destroyed, couple of thousand structures destroyed after wildfire strikes Northern California city

Law enforcement is responding to reports of an active shooter at Topsail High School Friday morning.

More Latinos will serve in Congress next year than ever before _ at least 42, with a House race in California to be decided

Republican Brian Kemp says he's Georgia's governor elect and resigns as secretary of state, but Democratic rival Stacey Abrams fights on

Migrant caravans moving through Mexico played a big role in midterm election campaigns, but the migrants themselves know little about the races

President Donald Trump delivered a stark warning to the new Democratic House majority on Wednesday: Investigate me, and I'll investigate you

The White House has suspended the press pass of CNN correspondent Jim Acosta after he and President Donald Trump had a heated confrontation during a news conference

A hand grenade-shaped belt buckle in the suitcase of a train passenger triggered major disruptions Wednesday on rail services in Spain's two main cities, prompting station evacuations before police declared the incident a false alarm

Stocks are closing sharply higher on Wall Street as investors are relieved that midterm elections went as they had expected, leaving split control of Congress.

The Democratic victory in the U.S. House of Representatives could echo around the world

Both President Trump and Rep. Nancy Pelosi said they were happy with the election results, but will the two parties work together?

After a year marked by women's activism, voters sending a record number of women to House

President Donald Trump isn't on the ballot but Election Day is offering voters a choice between his policies and the Democratic resistance

Both President Trump and Rep. Nancy Pelosi said they were happy with the election results.

Democrat Stacey Abrams says votes remain to be counted in the tight Georgia governor's race and vows to wait for them all

President Donald Trump is the dominant force in American politics and the 2018 midterm elections have proven no different, as attitudes toward the polarizing leader influenced the votes of more than 6 in 10 voters

Triumphant Republicans have retained control of the Senate for two more years

Senate races in Montana, Arizona and Florida remain too close to call

Aguilar was outside waiting for her family to take her to school just before 7 a.m. when she was reportedly forced into a vehicle and kidnapped.

A Bangladeshi immigrant has been convicted of setting off a pipe bomb in New York City's busiest subway station

At least 10 deaths are confirmed. Twenty others have gotten sick.

Facebook blocks 115 accounts for suspected "coordinated inauthentic behavior" linked to foreign groups attempting to interfere in U.S. midterm elections on Tuesday

Former Republican U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis elected Florida governor, riding the support of President Donald Trump to victory

Health care and immigration were high on voters' minds as they cast ballots in the midterm elections, according to a wide-ranging survey of the American electorate conducted by The Associated Press

Both President Trump and Rep. Nancy Pelosi said they were happy with the election results.

Georgia's hotly contested and potentially historic governor's race may not be over yet as Democrat Stacey Abrams and Republican Brian Kemp await the final accounting of absentee and provisional ballots

A Bangladeshi immigrant convicted of terrorism charges after setting off a pipe bomb in New York City's busiest subway station at rush hour insists he didn't do it for the Islamic State group

A man seen taking suspicious photos of the Oklahoma City National Memorial has been arrested on a complaint of threatening to kill with explosives

The bitter campaign for Georgia governor reaches its climax Tuesday as voters choose between Republican Brian Kemp and Democrat Stacey Abrams in a contest both rivals frame as a defining moment the state