The Missouri high school football season continued Friday with some Mid-Missouri teams playing host and others on the road.

One of the largest, coldest and most rural congressional districts in the country could figure prominently in this year’s presidential election. It also could have a say in determining which party ...

On a desolate slab of island tundra on Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, a resident of a tiny village called Adak will again become the last American to cast an in-person ballot for president. The honor of h ...

One is the longest-serving woman in congressional history. The other is dean of the Republican delegation from California. Together, they have more than seven decades of experience serving in Congress ...

Judges punishing rioters for storming the U.S. Capitol nearly four years ago fear the nation faces more political violence on the cusp of the next presidential election. Some judges at Washington’s ...

Wisconsin voters will have to make another choice after casting their ballots for president in November — whether to explicitly bar non-U.S. citizens from voting. Republican legislators are asking vot ...

The Rock & Roll Hall Fame induction ceremony on Saturday night promises to be starry, jamming — and bittersweet. So many of the honorees this time have been lost. Of the seven original members of Kool ...

For more than 10,000 years, Native Americans have been living along California’s central coast. Now the area will soon be part of a new national marine sanctuary that Native people will co-steward ...

Before 19-year-old Davontez Johnson found himself in a preschool classroom at Dorothy I. Heights Elementary, he was a senior at a nearby high school who, like many students his age, was unsure of what ...

Bridget Carleton made two free throws with 2 seconds left, and the Minnesota Lynx forced a decisive Game 5 of the WNBA Finals, beating the New York Liberty 82-80. The teams will meet Sunday night in ...

After helping lead the fight to free her younger brother from nearly a half-century on death row, Hideko Hakamada feels she and her brother are beginning a new chapter of their lives. Her brother, ...

Two days after Israeli forces killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza, families of the hostages taken last year are urging ...