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Three children were found dead in a Texas home and two others were taken to hospitals Friday afternoon, the Ellis County Sheriff's Office said.

This Saturday, as American conservatives flock to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland, they'll get a taste of just how far and wide their own ideas have spread. Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will speak on the same stage where a few hours later former US leader Donald Trump will deliver the event's closing remarks — a man the Brazilian leader has intentionally mirrored from the beginning of his presidency.

All flights were grounded at the University Park Airport in Pennsylvania and about 100 passengers were bused to the nearby Penn State University campus on Friday as authorities investigate a suspicious device found in a checked bag, officials said.

With the third anniversary of the Covid-19 outbreak, the secondary pandemic of hunger still looms for many Americans. According to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economic Research Service, nearly 34 million people in the US live in food-insecure households.

Alex Murdaugh, the disgraced attorney whose dynastic family had significant legal reach for decades in parts of South Carolina's Lowcountry, faces sentencing Friday after he was found guilty of murdering his wife and grown son.

Memphis Fire EMT Robert Long testified in front of the Tennessee Emergency Medical Services Board on Friday that Memphis Police officers were "impeding patient care" after he and Advanced Emergency Medical Technician JaMichael Sandridge arrived to find Tyre Nichols sitting on the ground, propped up against a police car on January 7.

A day after angry residents repeatedly interrupted a railroad company official at a town hall, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine's office released the results of health assessment surveys conducted in East Palestine, revealing the most common symptoms reported by residents since the toxic train derailment include headaches, anxiety and coughing.

This had been a quiet little town of about 4,700 people nestled in the rolling hills of Northeast Ohio. A sign posted on State Road 14 welcomes visitors to East Palestine, "the place to be."

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis used a 40-minute speech before a room full of donors Thursday night to cement himself as the governor who will go places other Republicans will not -- characterizing other GOP leaders as sitting back "like potted plants," according to audio of his remarks obtained by CNN.

Former President Donald Trump on Friday proposed building up to 10 futuristic "freedom cities" on federal land, part of a plan that the 2024 presidential contender said would "create a new American future" in a country that has "lost its boldness."

Walgreens on Friday said it will not distribute abortion medication in 20 states, bowing to pressure from anti-abortion lawmakers and lawsuits targeting the legality of medication abortion.

A New York man who assaulted former Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone during the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol pleaded guilty on Friday to several felony charges.

Two Michigan State students wounded in the mass shooting on campus in February have been discharged from hospital, according to the university's police department.

After an incredible series of winter storms, California officials reported Friday the state's snowpack is the largest in decades.

• Biden admin officially opens pardon request application for federal offenses of simple marijuana possession

Ford has some interesting ideas about stuff that self-driving cars might soon be able to do. Besides freeing us from the tedium of commuting, cars, as envisioned in a Ford patent application, could repossess themselves.

About 20,000 people who attended a large religious gathering in Kentucky last month may have been exposed to measles, and undervaccinated attendees should quarantine and monitor symptoms for 21 days, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a Health Alert Network Advisory on Friday.

President Joe Biden's decision to allow Congress to potentially nix reforms to the criminal code of Washington, DC, has left him facing criticism from his own party as he prepares to launch his reelection campaign.