The family of Banko Brown, a transgender man shot and killed by a security guard in San Francisco last month, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit over the fatal encounter, their lawyers announced Friday.
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres was "shocked," according to his spokesman, by a letter received on Friday from Sudan's military ruler General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan reportedly asking that his envoy to Sudan be removed.
A key House GOP negotiator warned Friday that efforts to lock down a debt limit deal could either quickly come together or fall apart entirely -- a warning sign as lawmakers and the White House race the clock to try to secure an agreement to prevent a first-ever default.
The Department of Justice has opened a criminal hacking probe into how behind-the-scenes footage of fired Fox News host Tucker Carlson was leaked to media organizations in recent months, according to a letter the federal agency sent the right-wing cable network this week.
With no debt limit bill to vote on, House lawmakers left Washington for the holiday weekend as negotiations continue — though they will be given 24 hours' notice to return if a deal is reached. Follow here for live updates.
A Russian attack on a medical clinic in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro killed two people and wounded at least 31, including young children, officials say.
The Pentagon has increased its security screenings following a massive leak of classified documents allegedly by a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard that exposed sensitive information online, according to a Defense Department spokeswoman.
A small high school in rural Texas has postponed its graduation ceremony after an end-of-year review revealed only five of the school's 33 seniors had met the requirements to graduate.
A federal judge ruled Friday that the Manhattan District Attorney's Office must turn over documents related to former JPMorgan Chase executive James "Jes" Staley in response to a subpoena from the bank in ongoing federal lawsuits that allege JPMorgan enabled and benefited from longtime banking-client Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking crimes.
A South Carolina judge has temporarily blocked the state's new abortion restrictions from going into effect, just one day after Gov. Henry McMaster signed them into law.
The 2023 NCAA men's and women's basketball champions made their celebratory trips to the White House on Friday as President Joe Biden and first lady Dr. Jill Biden congratulated both teams on their seasons.
A man accused of shooting and killing a woman who was a passenger in a car that mistakenly drove up his driveway in rural New York has been indicted on a murder charge.
If Congress does not address the debt ceiling by June 5, the US Treasury Department will not have enough funds to pay all of the nation's obligations in full and on time, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Friday.
Just days after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton accused the state House speaker of presiding over the chamber while drunk and called on him to resign, a GOP-led state House ethics panel heard explosive testimony from investigators detailing what they described as years of misconduct by the attorney general, later recommending his impeachment unanimously.
Multiple students hospitalized Thursday afternoon after a school bus collided with a tanker truck in Lexington County, South Carolina, have been released from the hospital, according to officials.
Jessica Watkins, an Army veteran and member of the far-right Oath Keepers, was sentenced Friday to 8.5 years in prison for participating in a plot to disrupt the certification of the 2020 presidential election culminating in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.
A high school graduate is suing her former Oklahoma school district after she says school officials prevented her from wearing a sacred eagle plume on her graduation cap.
