Workers on New York’s Long Island Rail Road are on strike, paralyzing the busiest commuter rail system in North America.

A man who experts said was intellectually disabled has become the 600th person executed in Texas since the state resumed carrying out the death penalty in 1982.

Former death row inmate Richard Glossip has been granted bond by an Oklahoma judge who ruled Thursday that Glossip could be freed from jail while awaiting a new trial for a 1997 killing.

The Justice Department is accusing Yale University of illegally considering race in its medical school admissions.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has unveiled his final budget proposal.

The Trump administration has announced $1.8 billion in additional funding for U.N. humanitarian aid.

An appeals court has heard arguments in a case challenging President Donald Trump's ability to sanction some of the nation’s most prestigious law firms over their ties to clients and representatives whom he dislikes.

A man accused of wounding two drivers when he fired at least 70 rounds from an assault-style weapon on a busy street near Boston pleaded not guilty to assault and other charges.

An Oklahoma man who has narrowly avoided execution three separate times could walk free from a county jail after a judge agreed to grant him bond while awaiting retrial.

Harvey Weinstein has returned to court in his rape retrial a day after he reported chest pains while in the courthouse.

State senators in Louisiana have passed a new congressional map after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the previous one.

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's demands for confidential transgender patient information from Rhode Island's largest hospital.

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries had warned Republicans they would come to regret the congressional redistricting fight.

A global oil bottleneck in the Strait of Hormuz has created a financial windfall on the other side of the world in New Mexico that is both enviable and politically sensitive in a Democratic-dominated state.

Oklahoma has executed a man who was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her 7-month-old daughter nearly 20 years ago.

Guns that are antiques or replicas of antiques are not considered firearms under federal law.

Denise Powell has won the Democratic primary in Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District in a contest focused on the state’s “blue dot” status in presidential elections.

Eleven people who survived a plane crash about 50 miles off the Florida coast were on a life raft for hours and had no idea anyone was coming to save them when rescue crews from the U.S. military arrived.

Alex Murdaugh’s murder convictions and life sentence for the deaths of his wife and son have been overturned by the South Carolina Supreme Court because the court clerk at his trial suggested he was guilty.

Republican senators in Louisiana have advanced a plan to eliminate one of two majority-Black U.S. House districts for this year's elections.

“The Hills” reality television show villain Spencer Pratt is running for mayor of Los Angeles, positioning himself as a savior and promising to tackle the city's disorder and dysfunction.

The young sons of Utah author Kouri Richins have said in a new court document that they would feel unsafe if their mother was ever released from prison after she was found guilty of killing their father.

When Jake Rosmarin boarded the MV Hondius, he gleefully posted on social media that the ship would be home for 35 days as he and more than 100 other passengers and crew were to travel across the South Atlantic.

A hormonal condition affecting 1 in 8 women around the world just got a new name in hopes of improving care.