3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (608+ words) Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America, a bipartisan campaign founded by philanthropists Olivia and Tom Walton, announced a $100 million pledge Thursday to make giving birth in the United States safer. The five-year commitment aims to cut the maternal mortality rate in…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (517+ words) A Florida man convicted in one of a series of suspected killings that became known as the "Hog Trail Murders” in the 1990s was scheduled Thursday to become the state's 15th person executed this year. Daniel Owen Conahan Jr., 72, was sentenced to…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (510+ words) Five members of a crew killed when an Amazon cargo jet smashed into their van were wrapping up their eight-hour shift cleaning planes at the Miami airport when the crash happened, lawyers for one of the victims said on Wednesday....

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (383+ words) Facebook is on trial in New Mexico over privacy concerns that emerged during the 2016 election when a political consulting firm bought user data harvested from millions of profiles to generate targeted ads. Opening statements will begin Wednesday in state court…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (205+ words) The hearing is part of the latest bid by Sandusky’s lawyers to secure a new trial for him. Sandusky, 82, has been serving a decades-long prison sentence since he was convicted of 45 counts of sexual abuse in 2012, after eight young men…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (767+ words) The economy, inflation and how those forces could impact the lives of Americans were front and center over the past week. Trips to the grocery store and gas station are more painful than they were last year, and rising costs…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1010+ words) A first-time candidate, Hamilton faces an unusual balancing act between political ambition and spiritual obligation. His pastoral role has given him rare prominence for a Democrat in a state where Republicans have won every Senate race for nearly a century,…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (312+ words) A woman charged with murdering her child is signaling that she intends to use an insanity defense. Andrea Faust, 41, is charged with murder and attempted murder. A notice filed Tuesday in Durham County Superior Court says Faust’s attorneys intend to…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (623+ words) Walmart’s second quarter fanned anxiety about the financial well-being of low-income shoppers who are spending cautiously as prices rise at the gas pump and everywhere else. Company shares tumbled more than 8% Thursday and helped drag the U.S. stock market lower…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (483+ words) Manuel Ernesto Hernandez-Umana, who has a pending federal criminal case in connection with the Aug. 8 crash, lied to a border officer and falsely claimed he was a U.S. citizen when he entered the country in Texas in 2007, the Department of Homeland…...