Jurors in a bellwether trial about the impacts of social media on teenagers and children on Wednesday watched a deposition of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg that explores what the architects of Facebook and Instagram knew from internal research about negativ...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued its first construction permit for a commercial nuclear reactor in eight years

A Texas judge is hearing evidence on whether the youth camp where 25 girls and two counselors were killed in catastrophic floods last year should remain closed

Kurdish Iranian dissident groups based in northern Iraq are preparing for a potential cross-border military operation in Iran, and the U.S. has asked Iraqi Kurds to support them, Kurdish officials have told The Associated Press

Authorities in Cleveland are working to identify two young half-sisters whose bodies were found buried inside suitcases on the city’s east side

The Trump administration has formally nominated Kevin Warsh, a former top Federal Reserve official, to be next Fed chair when Jerome Powell’s term ends in two months

Authorities say a small plane carrying a student pilot and flight instructor struck two homes in north Phoenix before landing nose-down in a backyard, injuring them and a man who was in one of the homes

U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is meeting Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez as the Trump administration pushes to shape the country's oil and mineral sector

President Donald Trump's administration is expanding its crackdown on state Medicaid programs to New York, launching a fraud probe in the state

Nashville metro councilmembers have passed a resolution opposing a planned tunnel by one of Elon Musk’s companies to offer people express rides in Teslas

IRS chief Frank Bisignano has largely declined to answer questions from lawmakers about unlawful releases of taxpayer data to immigration agents

A new lawsuit says Google’s Gemini chatbot fueled a man’s delusions and nearly pushed him to commit a violent event near Miami's airport before he killed himself

The Food and Drug Administration is reviewing a request for new warnings on antidepressant drugs, and that's presenting an unusual conflict of interest at the agency

Minnesota’s governor and attorney general are defending their efforts to combat fraud

An Arkansas man awaiting trial for murder has won the Republican nomination in a sheriff’s race in central Arkansas

Four of the six U.S. soldiers killed in the Iran war have been identified by the Pentagon as members of the Army Reserve

Oil and gas prices are soaring after the Iran war choked off tanker supplies from the Middle East

The House Ethics Committee is investigating a Texas congressman over allegations that include having an affair with an aide

The Pentagon says that the United States and Ecuador have launched a joint military operation against organized crime groups in the South American country

Jasmine Crockett has conceded the Democratic primary in Texas’s Senate race

U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas has lost his reelection bid in a GOP primary election to a conservative state lawmaker from Conroe

The winning numbers in Tuesday evening’s drawing of the "Mega Millions" game were: 07-21-53-54-62, Mega Ball: 16, Megaplier:

Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha is releasing a report on child sexual abuse in the Diocese of Providence

Republican Tom Sell advances to primary runoff election in Texas' 19th Congressional District

Police are searching for two suspects believed to have set a sleeping man on fire near New York’s Penn Station

Nahuel Gallo, an Argentine military police officer, is urging the international community to push Venezuela to free 24 foreigners still in detention

Ecuador has declared Cuba’s ambassador and his diplomatic staff persona non grata and gave them 48 hours to leave the South American country

Ten horses — five black, five white — entered the sand ring first

Police in Puerto Rico say an armed suspect flung open the door of an ambulance and fatally shot a man who was being treated by medics for bullet wounds he received during a shooting earlier in the U.S. territory’s capital

A blackout has hit the western half of Cuba

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday hosted Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó for talks in Moscow

An independent researcher has asserted that a marble bust of Christ in a Roman church is by Michelangelo

Prosecutors in London say a former Hong Kong police officer and a U.K. border official acted on behalf of the Chinese government as secret law enforcement or intelligence agents in Britain

Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court has ordered the arrest of former Banco Master chief Daniel Vorcaro in a widening probe into alleged bank wrongdoing and intimidation

Cuba said it has filed terrorism charges against six suspects it says were aboard a Florida-flagged speedboat that allegedly opened fire on soldiers in waters off the island’s north coast

British rapper Ghetts has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for killing a 20-year-old Nepali student in a hit-and-run in London last year

London police say they have arrested three men suspected of spying for China in violation of the U.K.’s National Security Act

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says he supports the strikes on Iran “with some regret” as they represent an extreme example of a rupturing world order

Spain’s prime minister says Spain rejects the U.S. and Israel’s attacks on Iran, even after Washington threatened trade punishment in response

Millions of Nepalis are preparing to vote in a high-stakes parliamentary election shaped by last year’s youth-led uprising

Greenland’s fishermen are struggling as warming weather from climate change makes the sea ice unreliable and the fish harder to predict

China’s ceremonial parliament meets in Beijing this week as leaders use the event to set policy and economic goals

The prime minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines says his government did not give the U.S. authorization for a recent strike on an alleged drug boat in local waters

French President Emmanuel Macron has France’s nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to move from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean to protect allied assets during the ongoing war in the Middle East

Four former Argentine navy officers are on trial for the 2017 sinking of the ARA San Juan, which killed 44 crew members

Tens of thousands of airline passengers are stranded by the Iran war that has spread across the Gulf region, but some wealthy travelers are getting out — by paying large sums for luxury flights to Europe via airports that are safe from attacks

Colombian police say they have arrested 121 suspects in a nationwide crackdown on kidnapping and extortion tied to major criminal groups

Trinidad and Tobago has declared a new state of emergency as authorities in the Caribbean country struggle with a surge in violent crime

A Russian court has banned a prominent LGBTQ+ rights group and has labeled it as extremist in the latest step in the country’s crackdown on the community

China has condemned the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran but is not getting directly involved in the fighting