NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Memorial Day is a U.S. holiday that’s supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members, but it’s come to anchor the unofficial start of summer and a long weekend ...

Autism affects an estimated 1 in 31 U.S. children. Their water safety has gotten occasional public attention after tragedies such as the death of Avonte Oquendo, an autistic teen who was found in a ...

Rain or shine, snow or sleet, for 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, guards watch the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.

The Trump administration sued four New Jersey cities over their so-called sanctuary city policies aimed at prohibiting police ...

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President Donald Trump’s administration escalated its standoff with Harvard University on Thursday, revoking the school’s ability to enroll international students.

Some of Harvard’s sports teams would be virtually wiped out by a Trump administration decision announced on Thursday that would make the Ivy League school with the nation's largest athletic program ...

More than a decade before the recent New Orleans jailbreak, the city's lawless lockup went viral in a series of videos showing inmates chugging Budweiser, snorting drugs, gambling with handfuls of ...

After a week on the run, five of 10 inmates are still missing from a New Orleans jail and four people have been charged with helping them.

A Louisiana jail inmate who escaped from a parish jail about a year ago has accomplished the same feat again, authorities said.