Vice President JD Vance says he won't watch if the Army carries out its plan to broadcast Nidal Hasan's firing-squad execution, the first US military execution in more than six decades.
An ICE agent shot and wounded a man during an arrest in the Bronx with a five-year-old reportedly in the car, prompting protests and a sharp rebuke from Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
With sustained winds at 110 mph and landfall expected overnight, Florida, Alabama and Georgia have declared emergencies as experts warn FEMA's post-cut workforce is about to face its sternest test yet.
Wastewater workers in Sheffield pulled a grimy ring out of a clogged sewer line and traced two faint initials back to a 79-year-old man who had no idea it had ever gone missing.
Jamaal Howard was put to death with the same drug that failed to kill Tennessee inmate Christa Pike, despite last-ditch appeals citing the state's degraded drug supply.
Two electric scooters, a loveseat and a busy stretch of South Tryon Street combined for a traffic stop that officers said they couldn't just drive past.
The Pentagon says the president signed off on Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's recommendation, setting up the US military's first execution by firing squad since the end of World War Two.
A raccoon slipped into a candlelight Mass at a Greenwich Village church days before the Feast of St. Francis, and the pastor who walked it back outside says the timing was hard to miss.
A Gulfstream air-ambulance jet carrying six people vanished early Saturday on a flight from Bermuda to Boston; searchers worked through the night off the Massachusetts coast.
Commissioner Frank Strada steps down and all executions in the state are paused as Governor Bill Lee orders an independent review of Wednesday's botched lethal injection.
A brown bear nicknamed Backpack topped Katmai National Park's annual weight-gain tournament, edging a rival bear in Tuesday's final.
A Miami jury's verdict against the Florida Republican exposed a secret lobbying campaign that reached Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Swayze wore the camera through the ceremony; millions of views followed.
'Not all heroes wear capes,' the town said of the rescue team that hoisted the trapped deer to safety.
The suits invoke a Reconstruction-era civil rights law and name top Trump administration officials, nine months after a legal observer was shot dead during an immigration sweep.
A bovine escapee from a Polk County livestock auction turned a commute into a rodeo before being safely recaptured.
Officials are exploring automatic enrollment for up to 73 million minors in the federally seeded savings accounts, a leap from the 6.5 million opened by parents since the program's July launch.
Wildlife officers hazed the animal out of the Aspen Saturday Market as Colorado logs a record year for bear encounters.
The Supreme Court denied a final appeal Tuesday night, clearing the way for Tennessee's first execution of a woman in more than two centuries.
A Bowie man says he was stunned when two identical Pick 5 tickets his son grabbed for him on a whim both hit for $50,000 apiece.
Heavy surf exposed wooden timbers on Nantucket's south shore that researchers believe belong to the schooner Warren Sawyer, lost off the island in 1884.
A rare late-September storm pounded the East Coast with wind gusts near 60 mph and threatening tides, flooding shore towns from New Jersey to Cape Cod.
Barring a last-minute reprieve, Pike would become the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than two centuries for a 1995 murder she committed at 18.
A parking-lot attempt at the world's largest human jigsaw puzzle fell short in upstate New York, but a 40,000-piece Disney puzzle and two other record bids kept puzzlers busy for eight hours.
A menacing, often AI-generated take on Dr. Seuss's Cat in the Hat has spread as a viral threat trend, prompting police responses, school alerts and at least 10 juvenile arrests nationwide.
A powerful, out-of-season coastal storm threatens a month's worth of rain, 60 mph gusts and major tidal flooding from North Carolina to Maine heading into the weekend.
A canopy and weapons-bay door from an Australian F-35 went missing in transit to the U.S. in May, and Beijing has yet to give them back.
An armored vehicle showed up outside an Arvada home mid-feud, drawing police, a raised gun and cameras from an A24 docuseries about warring neighbors.
The Justice Department says White House access is a "privilege, not a right," as three news organizations ask a federal court to restore their credentials.
CNN, MS NOW and Politico sued the administration over their White House ban, hours before a boycotting press pool left the president's own remarks unheard.
North Canton officers freed a full-grown deer from a backyard hammock, a call the department says it had never handled before.
An Illinois grower's monster gourd broke his home state's 11-year-old record and beat out a Kentucky entry by less than 12 pounds at a brand-new county fair weigh-off.
A great-great-grandfather born in 1907 and a great-great-grandson born in 2025 both arrived on September 14 — one of five generations of the same southwest Iowa family now certified by Guinness as sharing a single birthday.
A notice of claim filed ahead of the one-year anniversary of Kirk's killing alleges Utah Valley University ignored a specific warning about rooftop access before the fatal shooting.
A video claiming a tiger was loose near Six Flags Great Adventure flooded Jackson Township's 911 lines overnight. Police say every big cat at the park is exactly where it should be.
A congressionally mandated inspector general report puts the six-month campaign's cost at $33.4 billion and finds bottlenecks in resupplying rockets, explosives and skilled labor.
A flightless bird's dash from a Rockland County petting zoo drew officers and a police drone before it was captured unharmed and returned home.
Air Force Secretary Troy Meink said the United States has 'on-orbit space control weapons,' the most direct acknowledgment yet of Washington's space-warfare capability.
Serial record-breaker David Rush, who holds more than 200 Guinness titles at once, added a paper-aircraft-folding record to the pile at a pace of one plane every 8.67 seconds.
Wildlife rescuers are hunting for the vehicle — and the driver — that unknowingly chauffeured an alpine rodent into the Mission District.
A West Allis couple got the shock of the weekend when the object stuck in their car's engine compartment turned out to be a four-foot snake, not car maintenance debris.
Police arrested Jarques Ratliff, 51, after the state medical examiner ruled the death of 29-year-old Tasia Fortune a homicide, five weeks after her body was found behind an abandoned home.
Families will lead an all in-person reading of the 2,977 victims' names at Ground Zero as the president marks the day at the Pentagon for a second straight year.
NOAA says the Lower 48 states just recorded their hottest summer in 132 years of record-keeping, narrowly surpassing the Dust Bowl-era heat of 1936 as drought expands across the West.
With the season at its climatological peak and not a single hurricane yet, forecasters say a decades-old record could fall within a day.
Flight data from the Boeing 767 that overshot a Miami runway and killed five people shows the crew added thrust consistent with an aborted landing seconds before the plane went off the pavement, investigators said.
A string of Sasquatch sightings sent a small-town Maine police force on "a lengthy, exhaustive" hunt — that ended with a shrug and a costume.
A Category 2 storm passed just west of Kauai and Niihau overnight, prompting school and office closures as officials warned of flash floods and dangerous surf.
A Boeing 767 freighter flying for Amazon Prime Air ran off the runway and struck vehicles on a nearby road Sunday afternoon, killing five people and triggering an NTSB investigation.
A homeowner's 911 call about banging upstairs turned out to be a wild bobcat, not an intruder, in a Washington state house near Seattle.
A gunman carrying a list of LGBTQ+ venues killed two men outside a Tucson bar before turning the gun on himself, police say, reigniting debate over hate-fueled gun violence.
Nine contestants, judged on wardrobe and pizza preferences, competed under the Washington Square Arch for a shot at a $100 prize and bragging rights as the mayor's double.
Jurors could not agree on whether the former nurse who strangled her three children was criminally responsible or in the grip of postpartum psychosis, leaving prosecutors to decide whether to seek a retrial.
Matt Little plans to shake more than 13,000 hands in eight hours Saturday, chasing a Guinness record that has stood since New Mexico's governor set it in 2002.
A bull ran free along Highway 35 above Half Moon Bay for hours before sheriff's deputies called in an off-duty wrangler, who lassoed it twice — after his rope snapped — around 2:30 a.m.
A gunman evicted from his high-rise apartment hours earlier opened fire inside the building Wednesday, killing two people and wounding three police officers before he was found dead — the toll still being finalized as investigators pieced together a monthslong trail of warning signs.
Police in Montclair are investigating two separate scams that together siphoned more than 30,000 cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon from an Anheuser-Busch distribution center — and PBR turned the heist into a punchline.
Edouard came ashore near Johnson Bayou, Louisiana with 60 mph winds before weakening rapidly, leaving heavy rainfall and flash-flood risk as the main threat across southeastern Texas.
A 4th District judge found sufficient evidence for Tyler Robinson to stand trial on capital murder and six other counts in the killing of Charlie Kirk, and Robinson entered a not-guilty plea shortly after the ruling.
Two hobbyists sweeping a low-water shoreline at Great Sacandaga Lake tracked down the ring's owner through her old high school and handed it back for free.
A Las Vegas jury found Duane Davis guilty of orchestrating the drive-by shooting that killed the rapper, the first conviction in a case that had gone unsolved for nearly three decades.
Dale Marshall's 1,436-pound pumpkin extended a streak that has made him the face of Alaska's unlikely giant-vegetable capital.
The British commentator, who once called for 'zero immigration for the next 20 years,' was taken into ICE custody in Louisiana after overstaying a visa he entered the country on in 2019.
Thermal drones and three law-enforcement agencies searched for a reported 300-pound lioness and cub near Anderson, Indiana, but turned up no trace of the animals.
A black bear wandered into a Harlan County home overnight, shattered a glass table and ate a family's leftover fried chicken — then came back with a cub two days later.
Trump-backed newcomer defeats Rep. Ralph Norman to claim the nomination for the seat her brother, Lindsey Graham, held for nearly two decades.
A cottonmouth had slipped beneath the padding of a Maumelle High School player's helmet undetected until an odd movement gave it away.
The 120 remaining troops sent after the deadly Bourbon Street attack completed their final patrol this week, capping a mission that ran four times longer than planned.
A 1,500-pound bison slipped through a broken fence and spent hours wandering gravel roads west of Washington before animal control and sheriff's deputies coaxed him back home.
A 6-3 order clears the way for parts of the president's mail-in voting executive order to proceed in nearly two dozen states ahead of the midterms, with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warning the decision 'needlessly injects chaos and uncertainty.'
A 64-year-old Genesee County man wasn't planning to buy a lottery ticket until the customer ahead of him at a Standish gas station did.
A Genesee County man bought a scratch-off ticket on a whim during a fuel stop on the way home from vacation and found a half-million-dollar prize that night.
Tens of thousands of NIPSCO customers, many in Gary, are still waiting for electricity nearly two weeks after a storm with 99-mph winds tore through Lake County, with full restoration not promised until Tuesday.
Officers in Belton, Texas, chased down an escaped pet lemur described as "fast, furry and refusing to cooperate," reviving attention on the state's loose exotic-pet rules.
In a converted office north of Boston, Kimie Smothermon runs one of the only U.S. rescues devoted solely to abandoned guinea pigs, taking in animals from as far as Texas and New York.
The federal debt topped $40 trillion just five months after passing $39 trillion, with interest payments now exceeding what Washington spends on defense or Medicare.
A cottonmouth had nested inside the padding of a Maumelle High School player's helmet, undetected through a full practice.
A former Meta engineer told a federal jury in Oakland that internal metrics on teen engagement, not safety, drove product decisions at Facebook and Instagram.
A tractor-trailer's load spilled across a Narragansett intersection, coating the road in calamari and prompting police to dub it "The Squidpocalypse of '26."
A Maumelle High School player felt something moving during warmups; officers later pulled a cottonmouth from the padding using tongs and a bucket of water.
Florida holds primary elections Tuesday for governor and other offices under new congressional maps, with Trump-endorsed Rep. Byron Donalds the frontrunner in a crowded Republican field.
A 19-year-old from Henrico was located more than twelve hours after gunfire outside VSU residence halls wounded five people, including one victim still in critical condition.
Category 1 Hurricane Lala skirted the Big Island's southern tip without a direct landfall, but its wind and rain still knocked out power to more than 100,000 customers and left one person dead.
A decade-old age-discrimination lawsuit is paying out this month, with roughly 268,000 California users eligible for checks after the dating app allegedly priced Tinder Plus and Gold by age.
The plea revealed a previously unknown detail: Mangione posed as an investor managing over $50 billion to confirm the location of the conference where Brian Thompson was killed.
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani ruled the president has no constitutional authority over elections, expanding a block on Trump's mail-ballot order to all 50 states as the fight heads toward the Supreme Court.
Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma are each carrying out a lethal injection Thursday, the first time three U.S. executions have fallen on the same day since 2010.
The Old Trails, Autumn Lane and Fairview fires have burned nearly 10,000 acres and about 921 structures on the edge of Spokane, part of a Pacific Northwest fire season already among the worst on record.
The president's order directs HHS to break the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three shots even though no such standalone products currently exist, drawing immediate pushback from doctors.
A 21-foot skiff ran out of fuel in Southeast Alaska; a small expedition ship towed it to safety after Mark Zuckerberg's $390 million yacht, reportedly closer to the scene, never answered the radio call.
Oregon counts 26 large fires and Washington 19 as gusty winds and single-digit humidity fan flames, while heat indexes near 109° punish the East Coast.
Four members of a Colorado helitack crew have died since late June, and staffing shortfalls across the West are colliding with a punishing fire season and new tactical disputes over how aggressively crews should fight the flames.
A telecommunications outage at the Minneapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center triggered a ground stop at MSP and more than 1,100 delays at Chicago O'Hare.
Auditors found dozens of claimed lease cancellations predated DOGE and thousands of contract cuts with no termination action on record.
Demand records fell in three balancing areas on Tuesday, but rolling-outage warnings were avoided as batteries carried the evening ramp. Nevada and Arizona extended emergency alerts through Friday.