WASHINGTON -- The abortion rate in the United States hit a 46-year low in 2017, a drop experienced in both conservative-led states that have restricted the procedure and liberal-led states that have expanded access, according to a report released Wednesday by a research group that supports abortion rights.

The nationwide rate dropped to 13.5 ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- U.S. aviation regulators are calling for a meeting with their counterparts from about 50 other countries to discuss progress on returning Boeing Co.'s grounded 737 Max to service as some nations have begun saying they will perform independent assessments of the plane.

The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday sent a letter to...Read more

KABUL, Afghanistan -- At least 22 people, including six military personnel, were killed in a suicide bombing in the center of Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, the Ministry of Interior Affairs said Tuesday.

Nearly 40 others, including women and children, were wounded in the incident, the ministry said in a statement.

The Taliban have claimed ...Read more

LAREDO, Texas -- The new immigration tent court in this border city feels more like a detention center: barbed wire chain-link fence, metal detectors, security cameras and uniformed guards.

Asylum cases can take years, but the tent courts that recently opened here and in Brownsville, Texas, were designed to reduce that to as little as 40 days, ...Read more

HONG KONG -- Hong Kong's government doesn't see any benefit in conceding to more demands from protesters and the increasingly violent demonstrations are unlikely to stop anytime soon, according to a top adviser to leader Carrie Lam.

Radical demonstrators -- some of whom have lobbed petrol bombs at police and vandalized subway stations in recent...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Strange flying objects captured on video by Navy fighter pilots off the coast of San Diego in 2004 and in Atlantic waters in 2015 were acknowledged by the Navy as "unidentified aerial phenomena" last week, the first time the service has acknowledged the objects are real.

The three videos, published by former Blink-182 guitarist Tom...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- At least 11 visitors to this summer's Minnesota State Fair have suffered E. coli infections, and disease investigators have concluded that contact with animals in the popular Miracle of Birth Center is the leading culprit.

Six of the sickened individuals, who ranged in age from 2 to 43, were hospitalized, and one suffered ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- The parents of a Tates Creek Middle School student with autism filed a lawsuit against the Fayette County school officials, alleging that he sustained serious injuries in 2018 when he was dragged 250 feet down hallways, kicked twice by an employee and "unsafely" carried up 19 stairs.

The lawsuit filed Sept. 13 in Fayette ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The president of the Holocaust Survivors of Miami-Dade County wants to allow survivors and their families to use the courts to get payouts from European insurance companies for policies that were upended by Nazi Germany.

And after years of advocacy from South Florida lawmakers, David Mermelstein might have the White House on his ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump, who often touts the size of crowds at his events and knocks those of his foes, on Tuesday dismissed an audience Sen. Elizabeth Warren drew the night before in New York City.

Warren spoke in front of the iconic arch in the Big Apple's Washington Square Park before an audience numbering in the "thousands," ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Only 11 of Florida's 67 county school districts have given classroom teachers the option of carrying guns on campus this school year, according to the latest data collected by the Florida Department of Education.

Armed teachers have been shunned by the state's largest urban school districts, including Broward, Miami-...Read more