It's been a busy week for the sun, and aurora watchers in some northern and upper Midwest states looking for a glimpse of the famed colorful sky could benefit from enhanced solar activity Thursday night into Friday morning, Oct. 9. On Tues...

Federal prosecutors in New York on Thursday unsealed new charges against ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro that accuse him of conspiring with his wife to torture individuals who were held in Venezuelan prisons.The new indictment, unse...

One of the men accused in a "gang rape" at Cornell University is pushing to have New York Attorney General Letitia James thrown off the case, arguing that she "demonstrated a bias and presumption of guilt" through a past social media post.A...

A current sheriff and a former sheriff of two Utah counties have been charged with obstruction of justice in connection with the Kouri Richi...

More than seven months after the former Cornell University student known as Jane Doe reported being raped at the school's Chi Phi fraternity house, she gave a university hearing panel a detailed account of the October 2024 incident, saying she was...

A Tennessee judge granted a motion to preserve relevant evidence in the botched execution of Christa Pike.The lone woman on Tennessee's death row survived being administered two lethal doses of...

Federal authorities have arrested a man accused of planning to carry out an ISIS-inspired mass shooting at the Mall of America in Minnesota, according to newly unsealed court records. Sheikhdoon Mohamud was taken into custody Tuesday after...

A Haverford College professor was arrested and charged with online harassment and intimidation, the school's president said in a statement Tuesday.The professor, Guangtian Ha, has been placed on administrative leave and is...

A Utah health care company announced Monday that it has received state authorization for a pilot program allowing artificial intelligence to issue initial prescriptions, including acne treatment.Nolla Health introduced the program in a blog...

University of Maryland student Dilan Shaan Ashar, who had been missing since Oct. 2, was found "disoriented" and "dehydrated" in the woods on Wednesday by campus police six days after he went missing.University of Maryland Chief of Police D...

A 72-year-old hiker who had sustained significant injuries was found alive in a northern California forest Sunday after she had been missing for multiple days, officials said.Mary Beth Granbery was reported missing on Friday, Oct. 2 after s...

Two investigations are underway into a former Cornell University student's allegations that she was raped at a fraternity house in 2024 -- one to determine whether criminal charges should be brought and another to examine how the university handle...

Families of Sept. 11 victims are expected to ask a federal appeals court on Wednesday to order the government to release documents that they say tie the Saudi Arabian government to the plot to hijack airplanes and crash them into New York and D.C....

Tropical Storm Isaias, which is churning hundreds of miles south of the Gulf Coast, is expected to rapidly strengthen in the next 24 to 48 hours before making landfall on Friday as a hurricane.The storm on Wednesday morning was about 580 mi...