Police in Florida say two people were killed and seven others wounded when a gunman opened fire during a Halloween street celebration that drew thousands of costumed revelers to downtown Orlando.

A museum in Virginia has nearly finished restoring the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children.

Jurors have heard opening statements in the trial of the man accused of choking a distressed Black subway rider to death last year in New York.

For the first time, New York City’s public school students have the day off to mark the holiday of Diwali, celebrated in India and among the global Indian diaspora as the victory of light over darkness.

Heidi Klum and Janelle Monáe have opted for out-of-this-world Halloween costumes this year — both choosing the stubby alien E.

North Carolina had been projected as the state with the most closely watched race for governor this fall.

Donald Trump has made his opposition to transgender rights central to his closing argument before Election Day.

At The Associated Press, election night is a massive undertaking, with thousands of people involved in counting the vote nationwide and calling winners and losers.

The nation’s deep partisan divisions extend to trust in the vote tallies for this year’s election.

Rapper Young Thug has pleaded guilty to gang, drug and gun charges and will be released from jail.

The president of the Chicago school board resigned Thursday just a week after he was appointed because of social media posts deemed antisemitic, anti-women and lending credence to a conspiracy theory about the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

A grand jury in Nevada has again indicted Nathan Chasing Horse on charges that he sexually abused Indigenous women and girls for decades.

Quentin Tarantino's handwritten script for “Pulp Fiction” is the stuff of moviemaking legend.

The U.S. on Thursday imposed sanctions on senior members of the armed wing of a Mexican drug cartel that operates on border territories in and around Chihuahua, Mexico.

The city of Asheville has restored running water to most of its users nearly a month after Hurricane Helene damaged infrastructure and killed more than 200 people around the region.

Rowdy crowds took to the streets in Los Angeles after the Dodgers won the World Series, setting a city bus on fire, breaking into stores and setting off firecrackers.

Immigration from around the world has transformed the rural Minnesota town of Worthington.

At noon on Sundays in Worthington, Minnesota, an overflow crowd is still swaying to the Guatemalan band at Spanish-language Catholic Mass, Ethiopian Orthodox Christians are wrapping up their six-hour-long service, and at town’s edge among the cornfields, refugees from Southeast Asia gather to pray and sing in Karen at the Baptist church founded by Swedish farmers.

Voters in the scenic mountain town of South Lake Tahoe in Northern California are considering a tax on vacation homes.

Few elections in the nation’s history have provided such a divide as this year’s, with the two major candidates and so many of their supporters saying the outcome will determine the fate of the country and whether it can hold to its democratic moorings.

A Washington state man who authorities say led a wildlife trafficking ring on a Native American reservation in Montana that killed thousands of eagles and hawks was sentenced to nearly four years in prison.

Inspired by the candidacy of Vice President Kamala Harris, individual members of historically Black sororities and fraternities are working to help her presidential campaign and that of downballot candidates.

Most Americans are feeling a lot of emotions heading into Election Day, but excitement is not one of them.

The Los Angeles Dodgers won their second World Series championship in five seasons, overcoming a five-run deficit with the help of three Yankees defensive miscues and rallying on sacrifice flies from Gavin Lux and Mookie Betts in the eighth inning to beat New York 7-6 in Game 5.