The zebra was one of four that escaped on April 28 from a trailer near North Bend in Washington state.

Affected are rape crisis centers, domestic violence shelters, child advocacy centers and more that serve millions of Americans and can’t necessarily rely on scarce state or local dollars to keep the doors open if federal money runs short.

Florida voters will decide on a constitutional amendment allowing recreational cannabis in November. Public votes could also be held in several other states.

Mick Jagger briefly waded into Louisiana politics, taking a verbal jab at the state’s conservative governor, as The Rolling Stones performed at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

It's a dilemma no business owner should have to face: whether to reopen after a mass shooting.

A Texas mail carrier recently reunited a woman with 80-year-old letters her brother wrote to their family while he was serving in the military.

TSA agents found a startling surprise hidden in a passenger's pants at a checkpoint last week.

Heather Pressdee, 41, was given three consecutive life sentences and another consecutive term of 380-760 years behind bars during a hearing in Butler, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) north of Pittsburgh.

As many as 100,000 uninsured people could sign up for health coverage.

President Joe Biden will honor 19 people with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Friday, the nation’s highest civilian honor.

The retailer, which has about $200 million in debt and 4,900 employees, has been struggling financially in recent years despite a 2017 bankruptcy that the company hoped would turn Rue21 around.

Police have cleared pro-Palestinian protesters out of a tent encampment at New York University at the request of school officials.

The Pottawatomie County Sheriff's Office says the boy was found safe at 10:16 a.m. Friday.

Tensions are growing on the UCLA campus as law enforcement officers order a large group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators to disperse.

A Massachusetts woman has struck gold not once but twice this year!

Israel and Hamas appear to be seriously negotiating an end to the war in Gaza and the return of Israeli hostages. A leaked truce proposal hints at compromises by both sides after months of stalemated talks.

A Department of Labor investigation found the owners illegally employed children as young as 14 to work dangerous jobs.

The body of a fifth victim of the Baltimore Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse has been recovered.

An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant.

More than 11,000 people have donated to the fundraiser.

The defamation suit was filed Wednesday in a Los Angeles court against Warner Bros.

Joshua Dean, 44, previously said he was fired from his job at Spirit for questioning standards.

Daken Kramer, an 11-year-old from the Kansas City area, knows the importance that a school meal has for students.

Police have cleared dozens of people from inside Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall after pro-Palestinian protesters occupied the administration building in New York earlier in the day.

Florida’s ban on most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy has gone into effect, and some doctors are concerned that women in the state will no longer have access to needed health care.