U.S. & World

Heavy rains in western Louisiana flooded streets, left cars stranded and heightened worries in a region hammered by two hurricanes last year and a deep freeze this winter.

A Tesla vehicle on “autopilot” crashed into a parked Washington state deputy’s patrol vehicle Saturday, NBC News reports.

Twenty-three people have been rescued from a suspected smuggling boat off the San Diego coast not far from where another vessel broke up a few weeks ago, killing three people.

Dozens more men are suing Ohio State over the university’s failure to stop sexual abuse and misconduct decades ago by team doctor Richard Strauss.

The North Carolina Zoo has announced the birth of three litters of American red wolves, which are critically endangered and number less than two dozen in the wild.

In a move that’s been years in the making, five beluga whales are now calling New England home.

President Joe Biden expressed support for a cease-fire between Israel and Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers in a call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but he stopped short of demanding an immediate stop to the eight days of Israeli airstrikes and Hamas rocket barrages that have killed more than 200 people, most of them Palestinian....

President Joe Biden has released his tax returns, restoring a long-standing presidential tradition.

The cold case of a missing Delaware County teenage girl is now a homicide investigation as police dig for evidence in the wooded area where they believe she went missing exactly 46 years ago.

An unruly passenger “acting erratically and aggressively” toward crew aboard a JetBlue flight forced it into an unscheduled landing in Minneapolis, officials said Monday.

A Colorado man who was charged in connection with the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol could face house arrest after he shot and killed a mountain lion — breaking state and federal laws by possessing a gun, federal prosecutors said. After he was arrested in January for his alleged role in the Capitol siege, Patrick Montgomery, of Littleton...

A New Hampshire man has been charged in connection with a gender reveal explosion that shook several area towns last month. Anthony Spinelli of Kingston has been charged with disorderly conduct, citing the fact that the blast “caused public alarm,” police said Monday. Spinelli turned himself in to police and is cooperating. The Union Le...

President Joe Biden says the U.S. will share an additional 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines with the world in the coming six weeks