Associated Press

The Chicago Sky have won their first WNBA championship.

A gang blamed for kidnapping five priests and two nuns earlier this year in Haiti is now accused of kidnapping 17 missionaries from a U.S.-based organization, including a 2-year-old, police said Sunday.

William and his charity, The Royal Foundation, launched the Earthshot Prize last year, inspired by President John F. Kennedy’s 1962 “Moonshot” speech that challenged and inspired Americans to go to the moon.

Nebraska's court system released almost 100 pages of reports from the nonprofit Crime and Justice Institute on how to address the state's overcrowding prisons.

Former President Bill Clinton was released Sunday from the Southern California hospital where he had been treated for an infection.

A nationwide John Deere strike has farmers worried about obtaining parts amid harvesting season.

The incident happened around 6:15 a.m. Sunday in Fort Smith.

The decision by at least five defendants to defend themselves is bound to create a host of challenges, particularly for those behind bars.

A Soyuz space capsule carrying a cosmonaut and two Russian filmmakers landed after a 3 1/2-hour trip from the International Space Station.

A 35-year-old man was arrested and has been charged.

A lawyer says New York real estate heir Robert Durst has been hospitalized after contracting COVID-19.

The victim's parents have opposed Eric Smith's release in the past and have lobbied for parole reforms.

An 11th-hour deal was reached Saturday, averting a strike of film and television crews that would have seen some 60,000 behind-the-scenes workers walk off their jobs and would have frozen productions in Hollywood and across the U.S.

Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil suffered broken ribs after falling off the stage at a concert Friday in Tennessee, his guitarist told the crowd in a video circulated widely on social media.

The Harris County constable deputies were working at the 45 North Bar and Lounge when they responded to a disturbance outside the business around 2:15 a.m., Jones said.

Framed by the Capitol, President Joe Biden paid tribute Saturday to fallen law enforcement officers and honored those who fought off the Jan. 6 insurrection at that very site by declaring “because of you, democracy survived.”

Ranchers and other beef industry members are planning to combat a long-standing trend of consolidation by building new, independent slaughterhouses.

Police say witnesses reported two suspects left the scene in a white sedan.

An Associated Press review of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's rule-making activities under the last three presidents found at least 13 safety rules past due, including a rear seat belt reminder requirement that was to be implemented by 2015.

The U.S. Defense Department said Friday that it is committed to offering condolence payments to relatives of the 10 people who were killed in an errant U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, in August.

Clinton, 75, was admitted to the University of California Irvine Medical Center on Tuesday evening for a non-COVID-19-related infection, Angel Ureña said in a statement.

U.S. health officials are setting the stage for a national COVID-19 vaccination campaign for younger children, inviting state officials to order doses before the shots are authorized.

A prosecutor has ruled that a police officer who shot and paralyzed a man in downtown Waterloo, Iowa, in April acted legally because the target appeared to be chasing a deputy with a shotgun.

An elderly man has died after he and his wife crashed into Cottonmill Lake near Kearney, Nebraska, on Wednesday afternoon.

At a change-of-command ceremony at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin applauded her historic rise, calling her a “legend of a leader.”

Attorney General Doug Peterson released a legal opinion regarding disciplinary action over the prescription and use of controversial, off-label COVID-19 treatments.

In the recording, Gina Peddy told the teachers to remember a new Texas law that requires teachers to present multiple perspectives when discussing “widely debated and currently controversial” issues. She said: “And make sure that if you have a book on the Holocaust, that you have one that has an opposing, that has other perspectives.”

A Des Moines public school teacher has been fired after not complying with the district's mask policy.

The Alisal Fire in the Santa Ynez Mountains west of Santa Barbara grew only slightly since Thursday morning to 26.4 square miles, and containment of the blaze jumped to 41%, up from 5% 24 hours earlier. The improved situation allowed authorities Thursday evening to reopen U.S. 101, the region’s main highway, and a rail line that runs next to the highway. They had been closed since Monday.

The new policy will apply to both international air and land travel.

The flight-control system automatically pushed down the noses of Max jets that crashed in 2018 in Indonesia and 2019 in Ethiopia. The pilots tried unsuccessfully to regain control, but both planes went into nosedives minutes after taking off. Most pilots were unaware of the system, called the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, until after the first crash.

Cher has sued the widow of her former musical partner and ex-husband Sonny Bono over royalties for Sonny and Cher songs including “I Got You Babe.”

Former President Bill Clinton has been hospitalized for a non-COVID-related infection.

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has won back his full pension as part of a settlement of his lawsuit arising from his firing during the Trump administration more than three years ago, his lawyers announced Thursday.

Workers were emboldened to demand more this year after working long hours throughout the pandemic and because companies are facing worker shortages.

President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill raising the nation’s debt limit until early December, delaying the prospect of an unprecedented federal default that would cause economic disaster.

A mother and her boyfriend are being charged for the death of a two-year-old boy that occurred in April in Ames, Iowa.

Gov. Pete Ricketts has signed an executive order that will let drug counselors, physical therapists, and other health professionals practice in their field even if they aren’t licensed in Nebraska.

Gary Paulsen, the acclaimed and prolific children’s author who often drew upon his rural affinities and wide-ranging adventures for tales that included “Hatchet,” “Brian’s Winter” and “Dogsong,” has died at age 82.

The University of Iowa is looking for “game day volunteers” to work stadium gates, parking, and other areas beginning Saturday.

Federal regulators say they are cracking down on “an explosion” of businesses’ use of fake reviews and other misleading messages to promote their products and services on social media.

Former President Donald Trump is slated to return to New York City to provide a videotaped deposition in a case about his security team’s crackdown on a protest during the early days of his presidential campaign in 2015.

Old Person was elected to the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council in 1954 and served for over 60 years. He was chairman of the business council for over 50 years, the tribe said, making him the longest serving elected tribal official in the country.

The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it will ask its outside experts to meet in late November to scrutinize Merck’s pill to treat COVID-19.

Workers in protective gear have been combing the sand for oil washing ashore.

A late-night carjacking on Wednesday turned dangerous when the suspect sped off with the victim's car and was forced to crash by a police barricade, the suspect is in the hospital with injuries.

A South Dakota woman was convicted of manslaughter Friday in the death of her newborn son whose body was discovered in a ditch 40 years ago.

A test vote is expected next Wednesday.

Attorneys for President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, its onetime attorney Rudy Giuliani and conservative media figures asked a judge Wednesday to dismiss a defamation lawsuit by a former employee of Dominion Voting Systems who argues he lost his job after being named in false charges as trying to rig the 2020 election.

Facebook will expand its policies on harassment to remove more harmful content, the company said Wednesday in its latest change following congressional testimony from a whistleblower who faulted the social media giant for not doing enough to stop such content.