WASHINGTON — North Carolina lawmakers spent nearly a decade working to have Rev. Billy Graham memorialized in the U.S. Capitol.

On Thursday, a statue of Graham — a Charlotte native who died in 2018 at age 99 — will be unveiled as part of the Capitol’s National Statuary Hall Collection.

This makes Graham one of the few private citizens ...Read more

NEW YORK — A tourist exploring Times Square with her daughter was visiting the city for the first time when a man with an extensive criminal history knifed her in the chest in a terrifying caught-on-camera attack.

“She is completely traumatized,” the victim’s husband, John Lohr, exclusively told the New York Daily News on Monday. “We ...Read more

The Maryland Office of the Attorney General is seeking authorization to hire five law firms to assist in what is expected to be a lengthy and complicated legal fight following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

In a pair of written requests, Attorney General Anthony Brown asked the Maryland Transportation Authority and the state’s ...Read more

Since the overturning of Roe V. Wade by the Supreme Court in 2022, abortions have become limited, restricted or banned in more than half of the country.

Seeking an alternative, many people have turned to abortion pills for their medical care, whether through an in-person clinic or by ordering them through the mail.

From 2012 to 2021, ...Read more

BALTIMORE — There was a boom, several plumes of smoke and then a splash as millions of pounds of Francis Scott Key Bridge debris fell Monday evening into the Patapsco River.

Crews had previously placed linear shaped charges — explosive cutting devices — on the large piece of the bridge that dropped March 26 on the bow of the Dali after ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Boca Raton man who joined a mob in “one of the most violent areas” of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol has been found guilty of several felony and misdemeanor charges for his participation, federal officials said Monday.

A jury found Richard Cook, 38, guilty on Friday of one felony count of civil ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Two Republican-led House panels on Thursday plan to consider whether to recommend holding the head of the Justice Department in contempt of Congress.

The House Judiciary Committee on Monday outlined a contempt of Congress case against Attorney General Merrick B. Garland in a report, which said the DOJ has not handed over audio ...Read more

The North Carolina Governor’s School will adopt a new policy on faculty free speech rights and pay $21,000 to a teacher who claimed he was fired for speaking out against critical race theory.

In 2021, David Phillips filed a lawsuit alleging he was fired from the popular summer program after some staff members complained about his elective ...Read more

DENVER — Denver Mayor Mike Johnston will launch a new office within city government focused on neighborhood safety — one that will be independent from the city’s police force and its safety department.

The concept announced by the mayor Monday is one that minority communities and progressives long have pushed for. The Johnston ...Read more

A diver disappeared Sunday while exploring a WWII-era shipwreck off the coast of Florida.

Virgil Price, 39 of West Palm Beach, vanished while free diving with a group at the site of the Halsey near the Fort Pierce Inlet — bout 130 miles north of Miami — the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office said. It’s unclear how long he was underwater ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Tracy Kisenda, the uncle of a 17-year-old student who died Friday after reportedly breaking up a fight at Lexington’s Henry Clay High School and suffering an apparent seizure, said the family is trying to determine what happened.

“We want justice,” said Kasinda. “We want communication with the school.”

The Fayette ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Consequential pieces of evidence that may weigh heavily into the prosecution and defense of Bryan Kohberger are the focus of a pair of closed-door hearings this week as his high-profile murder case works itself nearer a trial.

Kohberger’s defense, led by public defender Anne Taylor, has alleged that prosecutors have ...Read more

DETROIT — Appeals attorneys for the teen serving a life sentence for fatally shooting four students at Oxford High School have filed a motion with an Oakland Circuit judge, asking him to consider input from lay witnesses about the shooter's family and home life which they wasn't considered before he was sentenced.

The appeals team for Ethan ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials removed 14 massive, invasive carp from a pond at an Arvada park last week, more than 30 years after the fish were introduced as part of a national study.

State officials were tipped to the presence of bighead carp at Jack B. Tomlinson Park by an angler, Colorado Parks and Wildlife said in a news ...Read more

DENVER — Children living near small airports in Colorado had slightly higher levels of lead in their blood than the statewide average, according to a new study — though experts had diverging opinions on how significant that difference was.

The study, by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, found levels to be within the ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A Thomas Jefferson University commencement announcer is going viral following a series of verbal misfires at Thursday’s commencement.

Pronouncing names like “Elizabeth” as “Lee-Zoo-Beth,” the unidentified speaker mispronounced the monikers of several nursing graduates, who hesitated to walk across the stage at the ...Read more

Srinagar, a city in the volatile region of Jammu and Kashmir, voted Monday in the fourth phase of India’s national elections, amid rising concerns about low voter turnout and the campaign’s increasingly acrimonious tenor.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party isn’t contesting the Srinagar constituency or the two other ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A series of earthquakes struck just south of the U.S.-Mexico border Sunday and early Monday, with the largest hitting 4.9 magnitude, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The first in the string of earthquakes rattled Sunday just before 10:30 a.m., centered about 20 miles southeast of Mexicali near Delta, Mexico. That ...Read more

CHICAGO — Less than two weeks after AT&T Illinois’ bill to end mandated land line service became law in 2017, the utility’s then-president, Paul La Schiazza, allegedly received a request from a relative of House Speaker Michael Madigan to sponsor a non-profit event.

The unidentified relative said the idea came “at the suggestion of our ...Read more