For the first time in more than a decade, a leading pediatricians group has put out new guidance about recess, saying it’s crucial for good health and good grades and should be part of the school day for students of all ages.

The National Transportation Safety Board says it is gathering information about the evacuation of a Frontier Airlines plane after it hit a person on the runway at Denver International Airport during takeoff.

“The Devil Wears Prada 2” edges out “Mortal Kombat II” at the North American box office this weekend.

A referendum on Oregon's primary ballot seeking to repeal a Democratic gas tax increase is complicating the affordability message central to the party's midterm election strategy.

A funeral has been held in Louisiana for eight children who were killed in a mass shooting last month.

At the Iroquois Steeplechase, the horses are competing for the top purses, but the fan favorite is the parade of the hounds.

President Donald Trump's Religious Liberty Commission is preparing to make recommendations after more than a year of hearings.

Public health experts are questioning the U.S. government's response to the hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship that involves Americans.

A new congressional map in Tennessee splits the majority-Black city of Memphis into three districts.

A new survey finds about half of U.S. adults under 50 get health information from social media influencers or podcasts.

A person has been killed after being struck by a plane on the runway at Denver International Airport during takeoff.

President Donald Trump is making significant changes to the nation's capital as he focuses on renovations and new projects.

The Virginia Supreme Court has struck down a Democratic congressional redistricting plan that had won voter approval.

California will become the first state in the nation to provide infants with hundreds of free diapers before they leave hospitals after birth.

U.S. immigration officials have quietly lifted a hold on green card and visa applications for doctors from three dozen countries.

The only person ever charged in the unsolved 2021 disappearance of Navajo elder Ella Mae Begay has been sentenced to five years in federal prison.

President Donald Trump has visited the Lincoln Memorial to see the reflecting pool he's painting in a color he calls “American flag blue.”.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says the immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” always was meant to be temporary.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is now the second longest-serving justice in history, overtaking someone who was nominated by President Abraham Lincoln.

Powerful storms that spawned at least three tornadoes tore through several Mississippi counties.

The Vatican says the “need to work tirelessly in favor of peace” was discussed in talks with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

A man was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after pleading guilty to killing one person and injuring a dozen others while they were demonstrating in Boulder, Colorado, in support of Israeli hostages in Gaza.

Tennessee has enacted a new U.S. House map that carves up a majority-Black district in Memphis.

A note Jeffrey Epstein’s former cellmate claimed he found after the financier’s first jail suicide attempt has been made public after it had been sealed and locked in a courthouse vault for nearly five years as part of an unrelated legal dispute.