WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland said Thursday that he will run for Senate Majority Leader in the next Congress, setting up a challenge to Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer after the party swept to power in the midterm elect...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Democrat Cindy Holscher has been elected Kansas' next governor, fending off Republican Ty Masterson to keep the office in her party's hands and extend a massive wave of Democratic victories across the country. Democrat...

Democrat Cindy Holscher won election Thursday as governor of Kansas, defeating Republican Ty Masterson. Holscher's win will keep the governor's office under Democratic control after the departure of term-limited Gov. Laura Kelly. The victory also break...

Former Oklahoma death row prisoner Richard Glossip, who spent nearly 30 years incarcerated and was on the brink of execution three times for a 1997 killing, pleaded guilty to a lesser charge, his attorney said Thursday. Glossip had been s...

PALMYRA, N.J. (AP) - A cargo ship struck a bridge across the Delaware River on Thursday, disrupting traffic between Palmyra, New Jersey, and Philadelphia, according to a Pennsylvania lawmaker. The collision left the 3,659-foot-long (1,115...

Republican Paul LePage won election Thursday to the U.S. House of Representatives representing Maine's 2nd Congressional District, defeating Democrat Matthew Dunlap. LePage was governor from 2011 to 2019 and lost a bid for another term in 2022. He once...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A Texas man convicted of fatally stabbing and beheading three young children in a squalid, windowless apartment in 2003 was executed Thursday evening, hours after Oklahoma put another man to death. John Allen Rubi...

NEW YORK (AP) - Two Democratic senators are launching an investigation into whether Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lied to Congress about his reason for a 2019 trip to Samoa after The Associated Press and The Guardian published documents in Aug...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Middle-aged men should undergo regular screening for prostate cancer, the American Cancer Society said Thursday in a major change to its guidelines. The screening involves a simple blood test, and men at average risk of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Five people were shot, one fatally, on Thursday in a Washington, D.C., neighborhood within walking distance of the White House, police said, and the suspected gunman later shot and killed himself as a swarm of officers responded to a ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Investigators began what could be a long search for the cause of a Brooklyn apartment building collapse that killed eight people while crews kept removing piles of rubble Thursday in the search for more victims. The three-...

CAIRO (AP) - An Israeli airstrike targeting the Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza killed six people and wounded at least a dozen more, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The strike was carried out early Thursday, according to the Israeli militar...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesia's vice president resigned Thursday as questions grew over his eligibility for the office after recent court rulings disputed his educational credentials. Gibran Rakabuming Raka, the 39-year-old son of f...

NEW YORK (AP) - Firefighters dug through the rubble of a three-story building in Brooklyn after it collapsed at the edge of a construction site Wednesday afternoon, killing at least two people and trapping others beneath the wreckage. Sco...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Democratic nominee Scott Colom defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith on Wednesday in Mississippi's closely contested U.S. Senate race after a prolonged ballot counting process, giving the state its first Black U.S. senator sin...

Democrat Scott Colom won election Wednesday to the U.S. Senate representing Mississippi, defeating Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith. Colom will be Mississippi's first Black senator since the post-Civil War Reconstruction era. Colom's victory also ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) - Pope Leo XIV declared Peru his "homeland" on Wednesday as he arrived in Lima at the start of his historic visit, returning to the place that taught him how to be a pastor and where a nationwide party erupted to welcome the beloved "Pa...

LEXINGTON, S.C. (AP) - The father of an 11-month-old boy who survived being buried alive in a dog crate for about 24 hours has been charged with attempted murder in South Carolina, authorities said Wednesday. Koah Sharp, who was reported ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The driver of a minivan that crashed outside a Los Angeles metro station, killing three women and critically injuring two more, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and three counts of murder, police said Wednesda...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House has issued a warning to Democrats over their planned probes into the Trump administration, going as far as claiming that such investigations - a standard oversight function of Congress -- may amount to "blatant crimina...

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Russia and Ukraine agreed to a large exchange of prisoners of war, both sides said Wednesday as two days of U.S.-mediated talks concluded with no major breakthrough on ending Moscow's nearly 5-year-old full-scale ...

BUNIA, Congo (AP) - Congo's Ebola outbreak has topped 11,000 cases, the government said Wednesday, a stark figure that underscores the severity of the situation as the country grapples with the relentless spread of the disease. According...

Democrat Doris Matsui won election Tuesday to the U.S. House of Representatives representing California's 7th Congressional District, defeating Democrat Mai Vang. Matsui was born in a Japanese internment camp during World War II. She has represented Sa...

Republican Maria Elvira Salazar won election Tuesday to the U.S. House of Representatives representing Florida's 27th Congressional District, defeating Democrat Eliott Rodriguez. Salazar, a former journalist, secured a fourth term after distancing hers...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Republicans reelected South Dakota Sen. John Thune as leader of the GOP conference after a tense day of discussions about steep losses in the midterm elections that cost them their majority. Thune was always expec...

NEW YORK (AP) - Three men, including one already jailed in the United States, were accused by U.S. authorities Tuesday of being Iran-supported operatives who plotted nearly 20 attacks on Jewish communities in Europe and the U.S. as well as a planned as...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio won the race Tuesday to serve as House Republican leader as the party prepares for its new role in the minority and a flurry of Democratic investigations aimed at its standard-bearer in the White House. ...

BOSTON (AP) - A former police detective was convicted Tuesday of murdering a pregnant Massachusetts woman, Sandra Birchmore, to keep her from revealing that he had sexually abused her when she was 15. Matthew Farwell, 40, was found guilty...