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Authorities in Massachusetts are "working around the clock" to search for a mother of three young children missing since New Year's Day, police said.

California has been battered by heavy snow, damaging winds and flooding this week -- and now another round of storms is set to hit the West Coast this weekend.

The executions on Saturday of two young men in Iran, one a karate champion, the other a volunteer children's coach, in connection with nationwide protests have sparked outrage around the world.

Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL) confronted Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) after he refused to vote for Kevin McCarthy to be the next House speaker and had to be restrained by another lawmaker.

Authorities are asking for information after five paintings valued at more than $400,000 were stolen from a locked truck in Boulder, Colorado.

Oral arguments resume at the Supreme Court next week, with student debt relief, immigration and labor relations among the cases on the agenda. The top US court will hear from some of the nation's finest attorneys on issues impacting the daily lives of Americans.

Soups are the easiest meals to make but we often think they're not quite filling enough. This Mediterranean soup uses a key, non-meat ingredient that has more fiber than black beans and more iron than a T-bone steak. Find the recipe here.

The United States Department of Agriculture has approved the first-ever vaccine for honeybees to prevent American foulbrood disease, a fatal bacterial disease that can destroy honeybee colonies, officials say.

Investigative genetic genealogist CeCe Moore, who has not worked on the Idaho student killings case, explains the type of DNA likely found at the crime scene and the role it played in identifying the suspect.

Welcome to a new year, where fresh wonder already awaits.

A Houston area man has been charged with aggravated kidnapping after holding a woman he met on a dating app captive for five days around Christmas and physically assaulting her before she escaped, according to charging documents.

If Republicans can finally agree on a speaker, the same GOP leaders who spread former President Donald Trump's lies about the 2020 election -- and who have consistently downplayed the grave threat to the nation posed by the January 6, 2021 insurrection carried out in his name -- will take the reins of power in the House.

Romeo Beckham, son of former England captain and soccer icon David Beckham, has joined Premier League Brentford's B team for the rest of the season on a loan deal from MLS NEXT Pro club Inter Miami CF II.

My father, a lawyer, once told me he hated movies about the law. With one exception, they were always false in one way or another. Yet the exception spoke to him profoundly, to his years as a defense attorney in the civil courts of Texas. That was 1982's "The Verdict," starring Paul Newman, directed by Sidney Lumet with a screenplay by the playwright David Mamet. Newman plays an alcoholic ambulance chaser named Frank Galvin, who finds himself suddenly giving a damn about justice in the midst of a case that should have been open and shut.

The NFL family has waited on tenterhooks this past week on the health of Damar Hamlin as he continues to recover in hospital, but this weekend the show goes on and the final game week of the regular season still holds plenty of thrilling football.

We are only a few days into 2023 and I already have mixed emotions about the new year.

Photos of stalemate | In pictures: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy