Democrats in the Maine Legislature unveiled sweeping gun violence measures on Wednesday including a 72-hour waiting period for most gun purchases, adding to firearm bills and mental health spending already proposed by the governor after the deadliest shooting in the state history.
A cluster of wildfires scorched the Texas Panhandle on Wednesday, including a blaze that grew into one of the largest in state history, as flames moved with alarming speed and blackened the landscape across a vast stretch of small towns and cattle ranches.
The New York state Legislature on Wednesday approved a Democrat-drawn congressional map that gives the party a modest boost in a few battleground districts, helping their candidates in a heavily contested election year when House races in the state could determine control of Congress.
Shane Pinto brushed off his three-point game in Washington, which came in a 6-3 Ottawa Senators loss to the Capitals and ended their two-game winning streak.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto struck out three batters over two scoreless innings in his exhibition debut on Wednesday, giving a glimpse into why the Los Angeles Dodgers believe the Japanese right-hander can become a big league ace,
There are dire implications for Russia and China making a strategic pivot from theft of military and scientific intellectual property to exploiting key infrastructure sectors and pre-positioning hidden cyberweapons.
Tyreek Hill, a wide receiver for the Miami Dolphins, has become the subject of a lawsuit filed by Sophie Hall, an influencer and model, who claims he broke her leg after she held her own against him in a football drill.
Actor Hunter Schafer was among dozens of war protesters arrested at NBC's headquarters in Manhattan during President Joe Biden's appearance on "Late Night with Seth Myers" earlier this week, organizers confirmed Wednesday.
The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday it's giving Boeing 90 days to come up with a plan to fix quality problems and meet safety standards for building planes after a panel blew off a brand-new Boeing 737 Max jetliner last month.
The Kansas City Chiefs are planning an $800 million renovation to Arrowhead Stadium, the third-oldest stadium in the NFL, that would begin after the team plays host to games for the 2026 World Cup and take about four years to complete.
Chiefs owner Clark Hunt admitted Wednesday the Super Bowl champions are overdue for renovations to their practice facilities after the NFL Players Association's annual report card graded Kansas City the second-worst team in the league overall.
Jud Wilson is in Cooperstown because he was one of the greatest hitters in Negro League history. Those in the know realize that means he is considered one of the greatest hitters in baseball history, period.
The five hockey players charged with sexual assault in Canada have asked for and been granted a trial by jury.
The Philadelphia Orchestra's home is being renamed Marian Anderson Hall in honor of the pioneering Black American contralto, a rare case of an artist's name replacing a corporation.
Hannah Miles on Wednesday picked up a sign outside the Alabama Statehouse that reflected what she was feeling: "I Just Want To Be a Mom."
McCanna Sinise, 33, the son of actor Gary Sinise, died last month following a years-long struggle with a chordoma, a rare form of spinal cancer, the family announced Tuesday.
The first U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon since the Apollo era was still working Wednesday but not for long, company officials said.
When Lilly Miller was in elementary school, teachers told her parents they needed to immediately sign up their youngest daughter, who has Down syndrome, for a wait list so the state would pay for a day program when she grew up. The teachers predicted a six-year wait.
When Hayao Miyazaki was contemplating whether he would come out of retirement in 2016, he put together a curiously self-critical proposal.
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Transfers from community colleges to four-year schools have started recovering from the one-two punch of the pandemic and runaway inflation.
The revelations of a Chinese contractor's hacking tools have astonished the world's top cyber experts -- including the U.S. government's most senior analysts at the super-secret National Security Agency.
Idaho on Wednesday halted the execution of serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech, one of the longest-serving death row inmates in the U.S., after a medical team repeatedly failed to find a vein where they could establish an intravenous line to carry out the lethal injection.
Missouri's Republican lawmakers are once again trying to block federal health care dollars from going to the state's Planned Parenthood clinics, this time weeks after the Missouri Supreme Court thwarted a previous attempt to end that funding.
When French President Emmanuel Macron inaugurates the Olympic village on Thursday, he will see a formerly run-down area transformed into an international hub for the Paris Games.
