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Campus administrators nationwide struggle to uphold principles of free expression amid pressure from those who claim speech, or potential speech, can subject students to harm.

For Iranian artist Nasrin Sheykhi, bombs, missiles and guns blot out any hope for a solution in the conflicted Middle East.

Alejandro N. Mayorkas, a Cuban immigrant who grew up in California, is the first U.S. Cabinet official impeached in nearly 150 years.

As abortion politics and policy clash in Arizona and threaten to sway the swing state, GOP lawmakers scramble to address the issue amid fallout from a ruling reviving an 1864 ban.

Diana Goetsch spent months visiting red-state libraries to do presentations on the freedom to read. Would she be recognized, or clocked as transgender?

Supreme Court conservatives questioned whether the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act can be used to prosecute those who attacked the U.S. Capitol in 2021.

Biden urged Benjamin Netanyahu to refrain from retaliation against Iran even though its attack appeared to defy the president's own warning after Oct. 7.

Newly discovered damage in Glen Canyon Dam would require releasing less water at low reservoir levels — a problem that increases water risks in the Southwest.

Vice President Kamala Harris has failed to win over a majority of voters or convince them that she is ready to step in if Biden, the oldest president in history, falters.

Republicans criticizing Biden's student debt relief plan took millions of dollars in pandemic relief loans and never paid them back. But they say that's different.

NASA's administrator says the agency is committed to the mission to bring samples of Mars back to Earth -- but in less time and for less money. How it will pull that off remains to be seen.

The former president can be expected to stick to his political strategy despite its legal risks and Judge Juan M. Merchan's lack of patience for it.

California is receiving a slightly larger share of a federal program earmarking $300 million nationwide for migrant-assistance programs.

A New Mexico judge excoriated the 26-year-old Arizona woman, who loaded Alec Baldwin's gun with five dummy rounds and one lead bullet, which killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in October 2021.

Can U.S. officials and other world leaders persuade Israel and Iran to avoid dragging the Middle East into a wider war?

Donald Trump faces multiple criminal charges, but a conviction would not legally prevent him from serving as president — in theory, even from jail.

Ozempic and other drugs raised the possibility of reversing the country's obesity crisis. Doctors are frustrated that they've made health disparities worse.

President Biden, in an election battle with Trump, touts the economy. Democratic strategists say the message is missing Biden's big strength: empathy.

Donald Trump's hush money trial is about more than Stormy Daniels and sex. It "will shape not just what future presidents will do but whether or not they'll get away with it."

As the avian flu continues to threaten poultry farms and wildlife, are factory farms a sitting duck?

Iran launched a drone and missile attack on Israel in a significant escalation of regional conflict amid the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Israel says it intercepted the 'vasty majority.'

Trump said he talked to a crime victim's family. Her sister denied it. And the fact-checkers called out the former president, again.

The Supreme Court says home builders in California may challenge the fees commonly imposed by cities and counties to pay for new infrastructure.