A tornado has plowed through Arkansas’ capital and surrounding areas, reducing rooftops to splinters, toppling vehicles and tossing debris on roadways as people raced for shelter. The Little Rock Fire Department is reporting heavy damage and debris in the western end of the city and says fir…

Italy is temporarily blocking the artificial intelligence software ChatGPT in the wake of a data breach as it investigates a possible violation of stringent European Union data protection rules. The government’s privacy watchdog said Friday that it's taking provisional action “until ChatGPT …

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is clearing the way for California rules that will phase out the sale of diesel-powered trucks. The rules require companies to sell more electric trucks of varying sizes all the way up to massive vehicles weighing more than 33,000 pounds. The rules ar…

A voting machine company’s defamation case against Fox News over its airing of false allegations about the 2020 presidential election will go to trial after a Delaware judge ruled that a jury must decide whether the network aired the claims with actual malice, the standard for proving libel.…

Transgender people and their allies gathered at at venues across the country Friday as part of an annual, international recognition of transgender resilience, an observation that this year comes amid what some denounced as an increasingly hostile climate. Hundreds gathered at statehoues, at …

Stocks rallied on Wall Street and closed out a winning March despite a long list of worries for investors. The S&P 500 gained 1.4% Friday and rose 3.5% for the month, with tech stocks leading the way. The index also notched its second winning quarter in a row after tumbling through most …

A codefendant in the case against actor Alec Baldwin in the fatal 2021 shooting of a cinematographer on a movie set in New Mexico has been convicted of unsafe handling of a firearm and sentenced to six months of probation. Safety coordinator and assistant director David Halls also must pay a…

Things were mostly quiet Friday outside the Manhattan courthouse where former President Donald Trump was indicted. The next dramatic turn in the case not set to come until Tuesday, when Trump is set to formally surrender and begin the historic, shocking prospect of a former U.S. commander in…

News organizations that report from Russia are wondering about the risks after a Wall Street Journal reporter was arrested on espionage charges there. The arrest comes a year after some outlets pulled away — temporarily or permanently — from reporting in Russia because of wartime restriction…

A developer has dropped plans to purchase a 100-acre property from the local school system in a historically Black town in Florida following public outcry that the deal threatened the cultural heritage of the community made famous by Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston. Derek Bruce …

A Florida teenager has documented how it feels to be young and transgender for a film set to debut at a festival as transgender people around the world celebrate visibility and lawmakers across the country look to restrict their rights and care. The film “You're Loved” debuts Friday at a tim…

In a highly unusual ruling, a state court judge has voided a U.S. Marine’s adoption of an Afghan war orphan, more than a year after he took the little girl away from the Afghan couple raising her. But her future remains uncertain. For now, the child will stay with Marine Maj. Joshua Mast and…

The indictment against former President Donald Trump involves a 2016 hush money payment. Democracy experts are concerned it could undermine public confidence in what they view as far more important investigations related to Trump's refusal to accept his 2020 defeat to Democrat Joe Biden. Tha…

The city of Minneapolis and the Minnesota Department of Human Rights have signed an agreement to revamp policing in the city where George Floyd was murdered by an officer nearly three years ago. The state began investigating the Minneapolis Police Department shortly after Derek Chauvin, a wh…

A woman pulled alive from the rubble of a Pennsylvania chocolate factory after an explosion that killed seven co-workers says her arm caught fire as flames engulfed the ruined building — and then she fell through the floor into a vat of liquid chocolate. Patricia Borges (BOHR'-hez) recounted…

Gwyneth Paltrow won just $1 after a trial in a Utah skiing lawsuit but the victory may have been worth a lot more. Jurors found that she did not smash into a retired optometrist on resort slopes in 2016, blaming him instead. They gave her the vindication she said she was seeking in her $1 co…

The federal government has filed a lawsuit against railroad Norfolk Southern over environmental damage caused by a train derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border that spilled hazardous chemicals into nearby creeks and rivers. The U.S. Department of Justice said in the suit filed Thursday t…

The owners of a Florida-based sanctuary made famous by the Netflix docuseries, “Tiger King,” say they plan to move most of their big cats to an Arkansas refuge and eventually sell their 67-acre (27-hectare) property. Howard Baskin wrote in a post on Big Cat Rescue’s website that he and his w…

Lefortovo prison, where American journalist Evan Gershkovich has been jailed on espionage charges, has been a terrifying symbol of repression since Soviet times. The inconspicuous, pale yellow building in eastern Moscow dates from 1881 and was used for low-ranking convicts sentenced to relat…

Donald Trump has become the first former president to be indicted in a criminal case after a grand jury investigation into hush money payments made on his behalf during the 2016 presidential campaign. The unprecedented indictment comes as the Republican is facing other legal investigations a…