KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Former Gov. Jay Nixon will not run for U.S. Senate, removing the possibility that one of Missouri’s most prominent Democrats would enter the 2022 race. Nixon, 65, an attorney at the St. Louis firm Dowd Bennett, said Thursday he...

A 12-year-old boy from Oklahoma died Tuesday morning after participating in a dangerous social media trend on TikTok, according to local TV reports.

Attorney General Merrick Garland threatened legal action against Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's executive order targeting migrants in a Thursday letter, calling it "both dangerous and unlawful" and urging the governor to immediately rescind it.

Pedro Castillo, a populist socialist and former primary school teacher with no prior political experience, was inaugurated as president of Peru on Wednesday.

The FBI is investigating another report from a pilot near Los Angeles who reportedly saw a “possible jet pack man in sight.”