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Onlookers watch as emergency crews work the scene of a partial building collapse on the 300 block of Main Street, May 28, in Davenport, Iowa.

No deaths confirmed, no known people trapped in Iowa building collapse

There were no confirmed fatalities and no known people still trapped the morning after a six-story apartment building in the eastern Iowa city of Davenport partially collapsed, authorities said Monday.

‘He’s home’: Missing 73 years, Medal of Honor recipient’s remains return to Georgia

An American soldier awarded the Medal of Honor after he went missing in battle during the Korean War is being buried on Memorial Day near his hometown in Georgia

As rising oceans threaten NYC, study documents another risk: The city is sinking

New York City is sinking under the weight of its skyscrapers, homes, pavement and humanity itself.

Three killed in shootout involving outlaw biker gangs at New Mexico motorcycle rally, police say

Authorities say three men killed in a weekend shootout at a New Mexico motorcycle rally were all members of rival outlaw biker gangs.

Fight still ahead for Texas’s Ken Paxton after historic impeachment deepens GOP divisions

The impeachment is plunging Republicans into a bruising fight over whether to banish one of their own in America’s biggest red state.

Insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump rallied at the US Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. A growing number of Capitol rioters are facing hefty fines on top of prison sentences at their sentencing hearings. That's because prosecutors appear to be ramping up efforts to prevent them from profiting from their participation in the riot on Jan. 6.

Jan. 6 rioters are raking in thousands in donations. Now the US is coming after their haul.

More Capitol rioters are facing hefty fines on top of prison sentences at their sentencing hearings.

Trump looks as if he will get the 2024 crowd he wants
The rapidly ballooning field, combined with Trump’s seemingly unbreakable core of support, represents a grave threat to DeSantis, imperiling his ability to consolidate the non-Trump vote, and could mirror the dynamics that powered Trump’s takeover of the party in 2016.

Takeaways from the impeachment of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton
Ken Paxton, the firebrand Republican Texas attorney general, was temporarily thrown out of office Saturday by House lawmakers — many from his own party — who voted to impeach him over a series of bribery and corruption allegations.

Stanley Engerman, revisionist scholar of slavery, dies at 87
His two-volume “Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery,” written with Robert W. Fogel, used data analysis to challenge what they called common characterizations of slavery, including that it was unprofitable, inefficient, and pervasively abusive.

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New Mexico mayor: shooting involving motorcycle gangs kills 3, wounds 5 at annual holiday rally

Three people were killed and five were wounded in a shooting at an annual motorcycle rally in a New Mexico town late Saturday afternoon, the mayor said. 5:30 a.m.

Maternity’s most dangerous time: after new mothers come home

Most people think of labor and birth as the most dangerous part of pregnancy. But new scientific research is challenging this assumption, finding that substantial risks persist for a full year after birth itself. 3:10 a.m.

Texas state Attorney General Ken Paxton makes a statement at his office in Austin, Texas, Friday, May 26, 2023.

GOP-controlled Texas House votes to impeach Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton

The historic vote came after a monthslong House investigation into the three-term attorney general that resulted in 20 charges alleging sweeping abuses of power, including obstruction of justice, bribery, and abuse of public trust. 6:10 p.m.

A photo provided by the General Services Administration shows the Stratford Shoal Middle Ground Light Station, in Long Island Sound between New York and Connecticut.

Fixer-uppers with waterfront views: The US is unloading lighthouses

The General Services Administration said Friday that it was giving away six lighthouses to nonprofits or government agencies that promise to maintain them, and planned to sell four others to the public at auction. 1:50 p.m.

US President Biden speaks with US Vice President Kamala Harris after announcing his nomination of Air Force General Charles Brown, Jr.to serve as the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 25.

At West Point, Vice President Harris to make history as first woman to deliver commencement speech

Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday will become the first woman to deliver a commencement address at the US Military Academy, an institution that has made slow progress diversifying its ranks in the four decades since the first class of female cadets graduated. 5:15 a.m.

Swift water rescue teams conduct an exercise on the American River in Sacramento, Calif., on May 23.

California’s epic melting snowpack means cold, deadly torrents ahead of Memorial Day weekend

California rivers fed by this winter’s massive Sierra Nevada snowpack have been turned into deadly torrents, drawing warnings from public safety officials ahead of the Memorial Day weekend’s traditional start of outdoor summer recreation. 3:15 a.m.

Two women stand on Aug. 16, 2016, in New York.

Ban on weight discrimination becomes law in New York

Mayor Eric Adams on Friday signed into law a ban on discrimination in New York City based on a person’s weight. 3:09 a.m.

Demonstrators outside the Supreme Court as justices heard arguments about the Common App's race box on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct. 31.

Colleges will be able to block out a student’s race on admissions applications

Each year, the 1 million or so students applying to college through the Common App are given the option to check a box, disclosing whether they identify as Hispanic, Asian, Black or white, among other choices. 3:00 a.m.