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Illinois’s Safe Haven law lets parents give up a newborn baby for adoption by leaving the baby with workers at a designated safe place with no questions asked.

Some notable numbers from Biden’s first year in office.

Nursing homes were the lethal epicenter of the pandemic early on, before the vaccine allowed many of them to reopen to visitors last year. But the wildly contagious variant has dealt them a setback.

Eight employees at the factory in Mayfield, Kentucky, died in the December tornado.

Police say the suspect used to work at that same Burger King, so he knew the restaurant well and had likely pre-planned the robbery.

Wildlife officials euthanized the adult black bear following the attack.

The FBI says there’s no immediate indication the suspect had connections to any broader plan, but its investigation “will have global reach.”

Union Pacific says it is concerned about the cargo thefts and has increased patrols and utilized additional technologies to combat them.

Satellite images show a 3-mile-wide plume of ash, steam and gas rising into the air 12 miles high.

A Connecticut seventh grader has died after being exposed to fentanyl at school earlier in the week.

The man believed responsible fled the scene but turned himself in to transit police a short time later,

Ralph Emery, who became known as the dean of country music broadcasters over more than a half-century in both radio and television, died Saturday, his family said. He was 88.

By Friday, the fast-moving storm had already dropped heavy snow across a large swath of the Midwest, where travel conditions deteriorated and scores of schools closed or moved to online instruction.

In video that's gone viral, a Wisconsin man cuts free two bucks that were locked up on his property.

The Pence family pet made the unusual journey from Craigslist to the Naval Observatory, inspiring multiple children’s books.

Baldwin was an actor and co-producer, and the search warrant for his phone sought text messages, images, videos, calls or any other information related to the movie.

Authorities say a fire near a New Jersey chemical plant with flames and smoke visible for miles in the night sky has spread to multiple buildings in the complex, threatening to reach the plant’s chemical storage area.

Firefighters in New York rescued a dog that became trapped on a frozen river while chasing geese.

The lawsuit cleared a hurdle after a judge earlier this week refused Andrew’s request to have it dismissed.

Every infection provides a chance for the virus to mutate, and omicron has an edge over its predecessors.

The White House is pushing ahead with efforts to prod people to get COVID-19 shots after the Supreme Court put a halt to the administration’s sweeping vaccinate-or-test plan for large employers.

Authorities say a pilot and a passenger are presumed dead after the crash of a helicopter in a south Louisiana marsh.

According to Federal Aviation Administration documents, FedEx is asking permission to modify some of its planes with lasers designed to misdirect missiles.

North Korea on Saturday said it test-launched ballistic missiles from a train in what was seen as an apparent retaliation against fresh sanctions imposed by the Biden administration.

A review of potential voter fraud cases in the 2020 general election in Arizona’s second-largest county ended Friday with an announcement by prosecutors that none of the 151 cases they reviewed merited criminal charges.

Michigan’s attorney general is asking federal prosecutors to open a criminal investigation into 16 Republicans who submitted false certificates stating they were the state’s presidential electors despite Joe Biden’s 154,000-vote victory in 2020.

A driver in Colorado caught video from his dashboard camera of a dramatic crash on a highway near Colorado Springs. Miraculously, the driver of the crashed vehicle survived.

Novak Djokovic’s chance to play for a 10th Australian Open title was thrown into limbo after his visa was revoked a second time. Djokovic is not inoculated and had sought a medical exemption on the grounds that he had COVID-19 in December.

U.S. health officials on Friday encouraged more Americans to wear the kind of N95 or KN95 masks used by health-care workers to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

North Korea on Friday fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles in its third weapons launch this month, officials in South Korea said, in an apparent reprisal for fresh sanctions imposed by the Biden administration for its continuing test launches.