KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Missouri deer hunter reportedly killed a mountain lion Monday, Nov. 18, according to a social media post from the Missouri Department of Conservation.

“We are aware of an incident that occurred this past weekend in Iron County where a deer hunter killed a mountain lion,” the department wrote on Facebook on Monday. “...Read more

It's been two weeks since Donald Trump won the presidential election, but Stacey Lamirand's brain hasn't stopped churning.

"I still think about the election all the time," said the 60-year-old Bay Area resident, who wanted a Kamala Harris victory so badly that she flew to Pennsylvania and knocked on voters' doors in the final days of the ...Read more

In March, newly installed Social Security chief Martin O’Malley criticized agency “injustices” that “shock our shared sense of equity and good conscience as Americans.”

He promised to overhaul the Social Security Administration’s often heavy-handed efforts to claw back money that millions of recipients — including people who are ...Read more

The outcomes of seven ballot measures in Arizona, California and Colorado reflect the stricter approach to crime that’s been seen across much of the country recently, with voters and policymakers driven by concerns over rising retail theft, homelessness, fentanyl misuse and challenges in police recruitment and retention.

Voters have decided ...Read more

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy — President-elect Donald Trump’s picks to lead the newly formed task force to review government spending — said they will push for eliminating work-from-home policies for federal workers, an idea that could spark clashes between the new administration and government employee unions.

“Requiring federal ...Read more

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. – The van carrying 11 migrants from Winnipeg got stuck in the snow as a blizzard raged. Just north of the Canadian border, the driver told the group to get out and walk until they reached a second vehicle that would be waiting.

“He just said, ‘Keep moving straight,’” Yash Patel, one of the migrants, recalled to a ...Read more

French President Emmanuel Macron, who is visiting several South American nations during his attendance at this week’s G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is castigating members of Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council for ousting the country’s second prime minister, Garry Conille, this year — the country’s third since the 2021 ...Read more

SANTA ANA, Calif. — A 17-year-old former Oxford Academy student just became the youngest person to pass the California bar exam.

Sophia Park learned on Nov. 8 that she had passed the July 2024 exam, which will allow her to become a practicing lawyer in the state.

At 17 years, 8 months old, Park beat the record for the youngest person to pass...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday he's nominating Pete Hoekstra, chairman of the Michigan Republican Party, to be the next U.S. ambassador to Canada.

The development means a Michigan resident will have a role in the coming Trump administration and state Republicans will have to select a new leader in the coming...Read more

NEW YORK — A Florida man has been arrested by the FBI on accusations of plotting to blow up the New York Stock Exchange, according to court documents filed Wednesday.

Harun Abdul-Malik Yener was charged in Miami-Dade County with “attempting to use an improvised explosive device to damage or destroy a building used in interstate or foreign ...Read more

A Dallas anesthesiologist has been sentenced to 190 years in prison for injecting “heart-stopping drugs” into IV bags at the surgical center where he worked, leading to the death of a co-worker and “numerous cardiac emergencies,” federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

Raynaldo Rivera Ortiz Jr. injected IV bags of saline with a nerve-...Read more

NEW YORK — The City University of New York is convening a task force on free speech amid pushback over its response to protests critical of Israel, Chancellor Félix Matos Rodríguez announced during this year’s State of the University address Wednesday.

The working group is tasked with developing a systemwide policy across its 25 campuses ...Read more

Laura Hogshead, the chief operating officer of North Carolina's Office of Recovery and Resiliency, which oversees rebuilding efforts following Hurricanes Florence and Matthew, is no longer employed by the embattled agency.

A spokesperson for the state’s Department of Public Safety, which houses NCORR, confirmed to The News & Observer that ...Read more

DENVER — A Castle Rock school bus driver abandoned 40 elementary schoolers Monday evening at a random intersection miles away from their homes, parents and school district officials said.

Parents told 9NEWS that the driver, who was a substitute for the route that day, forced their Clear Sky Elementary School students off the bus near a ...Read more

Elon Musk slammed sanctuary cities just minutes before the Natick Select Board met Wednesday night to consider committing to that status, which would sharply limit its cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.

Musk took to his social media platform, X, after Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston announced it had arrested two illegal...Read more

President Joe Biden has several federal judicial nominees lined up for California vacancies — but unless they’re confirmed in the next six weeks by the Senate, their chances will fade instantly.

There are six current and future vacancies across California for lifetime federal judicial roles. Biden has selected six individuals who are ...Read more

Do not read Michael Wolff’s new book, a long list of Trump campaign surrogates declared on Wednesday.

The book — an as-yet unreleased and untitled new work by the author of “Fire and Fury” — will be filled with falsehoods and is best ignored, according to Trump’s staff, just like they apparently ignored Wolff’s attempt to ...Read more