A Maryland transportation official says the state plans to rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge in just over four years at an estimated cost between $1.7 billion and $1.9 billion.

Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has signed a bill to undo a long-dormant law that bans all abortions except those done to save a patient's life, but the ban is still in effect until the fall.

Authorities say one person died when a tornado ripped through the small northeastern Kansas city of Westmoreland and destroyed houses, RVs and outbuildings.

Gov. Wes Moore apologized to Gary Washington during a Board of Public Works meeting on Wednesday where the compensation was approved.

Dueling groups of protesters clashed overnight at the University of California, Los Angeles, shoving, kicking and beating each other with sticks after pro-Israel demonstrators tried to pull down barricades surrounding a pro-Palestinian encampment.

Two Republicans joined with 14 Democrats in the Arizona Senate on Wednesday to give final legislative approval to the repeal, which narrowly won approval a week ago from the Arizona House.

The Georgia Republican is forcing her colleagues to choose sides after Democratic leaders announced they'd provide the votes to save the Republican speaker's job.

The bungled rollout of a new federal student aid form has left millions of students in limbo and some wondering if their college dreams will survive.

Donald Trump is using a one-day break from his New York hush money trial to rally voters in the battleground states of Wisconsin and Michigan.

The Federal Reserve emphasized that inflation has remained stubbornly high in recent months and said it doesn't plan to cut interest rates until it has 'greater confidence' that price increases are slowing sustainably to its 2% target.

The ban went into effect Wednesday and affects not just women who want to terminate viable pregnancies because of personal choice, but also nonviable pregnancies for women who want to have babies.

Police say they're still sorting out how four officers were killed and four others wounded Monday in suburban Charlotte. But they know the officers were at a disadvantage when immediately faced with gunfire from an upstairs position inside a home.

An FBI report released Tuesday shows a rise in losses through increasingly sophisticated tactics to trick the vulnerable into giving up their life savings.

House Democrats will vote to save Speaker Mike Johnson's job should some Republican lawmakers seek to remove him from the position, avoiding a repeat of when eight Republicans joined with Democrats to oust his predecessor, former Rep. Kevin McCarthy.

Democrats believe young Florida voters will go to the polls in November because of the abortion and marijuana measures on the ballot.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force announced the updated guidance Tuesday. It also says women ages 40 to 74 should get screened every other year.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple effects across the country.

Police swept through some campuses, spurring confrontations with protesters and plenty of arrests. In rarer instances, university officials and protest leaders have struck agreements to restrict the disruption to campus life.

Donald Trump has been held in contempt of court and fined $9,000 for repeatedly violating a gag order that barred him from making public statements about witnesses, jurors and some others connected to his New York hush money case.

A tornado late Saturday crumpled many downtown buildings and sheared the roofs off houses across a 15-block radius in the community of Sulphur.

Protesters of the war in Gaza who are encamped at Columbia University have defied a deadline to disband with chants, clapping and drumming.

The Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 8-6 in the case involving coverage of gender-affirming care by North Carolina's state employee health plan and the coverage of gender-affirming surgery by West Virginia Medicaid.

David Pecker returned to the witness stand Friday for a fourth day as defense attorneys tried to poke holes in his testimony about his tabloid's efforts to protect his old friend from potentially damaging stories.

An Arizona grand jury's indictment of 18 people who either posed as or helped organize a slate of electors falsely claiming former President Donald Trump won the state in 2020 could help shape the landscape of challenges to the 2024 election.

Hundreds of protesters have been arrested across the nation. Other schools have been quick to call law enforcement. Columbia officials have said they will seek other options if the negotiations with protesters fail.