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Alabama supreme court grants breastfeeding women exemption from jury duty after public outcry

Breastfeeding women in Alabama will be excused from jury duty, the state’s highest court ordered on Friday

Man's dramatic rescue of dog from freezing river in Vermont caught on video

A Vermont man waded into a river to rescue a dog that was struggling to escape the icy waters

Thousands of people enjoy art on a frozen Minneapolis lake despite bone-chilling temperatures

Saturday was cold even for Minneapolis, but that didn’t stop thousands of people from tromping out onto a frozen lake to immerse t...

Trump lands in Washington area as he prepares to reclaim the White House

Trump lands in Washington area as he prepares to reclaim the White House

Oregon man who kidnapped a Seattle woman and kept her in a makeshift cell gets life sentence

An Oregon man has been sentenced to life in federal prison after being convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting two women i...

TikTok goes dark in the US

TikTok’s app was removed from prominent app stores on Saturday just before a federal law that would have banned the popular social...

Arrest made in beating death of pioneering Black rocker

Peter Forrest, under the stage name P. Fluid, had been a frontman for 24/7 Spyz.

Alabama and Mississippi will also honor Robert E. Lee on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

The U.S. is set to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon

US cities largely saw a drop in violent crime in 2024, yet many still feel unsafe

As U.S. police departments release preliminary or finalized 2024 crime numbers, many are reporting historic declines in homicides ...

Alabama refuge is a paradise for birders and thousands of migrating sandhill cranes

Flooded cornfields near the Tennessee River in northern Alabama are a paradise for birders who flock to see tens of thousands of m...

Trump-allied group's warnings may signal legal blueprint to attack 'sanctuary' jurisdictions

Two days before Christmas, a group led by President-elect Donald Trump's chief architect of immigration policy wrote to state, cou...

Biden's departing UN envoy says US rivals will fill the vacuum if Trump abandons global leadership

The outgoing U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says she watched America’s leadership diminish in the world during Donald Trump...

Civil rights leaders and King family mark MLK Day as a special call to action as Trump takes office

Events honoring Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and advocating for his vision of a just, nonviolent society will occur the same da...

Solar farms are booming in the US and putting thousands of hungry sheep to work

The booming solar industry has found an unlikely mascot in sheep as large-scale solar farms crop up across the U.S. and in the fie...

Families of wildfire victims mired in grief, questioning what more could have been done

Many families in California are full of grief and questions about what more they could have done to save their loved ones from the...

Baltimore sees sustained reduction in gun violence amid robust anti-violence efforts

Baltimore is seeing a sustained reduction in gun violence and city leaders believe investments in robust anti-violence efforts are...

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