U.S. & World

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.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked Tennessee’s first-in-the-nation law placing strict limits on drag shows just hours before it was set to go into effect, siding with a group that filed a lawsuit claiming the statute violates the First Amendment.

At least one person was killed and 28 others were injured when a roof collapse occurred during a concert at Belvidere’s Apollo Theatre as severe storms ripped through the community late Friday, according to authorities.

Police say the body of a 2-year-old Florida boy who had been the subject of a frantic search after his mother was slain has been found in a lake in the jaws of an alligator.

The Buffalo Bills safety spent the week in Washington D.C. advocating for legistlation that would promote education and equipment access to respond to sudden cardiac arrest.

The worlds of politics and comedy are mourning one of America’s great satirists. Mark Russell, who poked fun at presidents from Eisenhower to Biden, died at his home Thursday. He was 90 years old.

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman has left Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after six weeks of inpatient treatment for clinical depression, with plans to return to the Senate in mid-April.

Peeps are more than just marshmallow treat — for some, they are works of art.

If a proposed bill passes, it wouldn’t just affect the state’s large Latino population but others with non-English names, such as Vietnamese, French and Arab American Californians.

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.

The defamation lawsuit between Fox and Dominion looks to be moving forward to a trial in April as a Delaware judge rejects all of Fox’s motions.

The military on Friday released the names of the nine soldiers killed in the crash involving two Black Hawk helicopters in southwestern Kentucky.

Unrelenting tornadoes that tore through parts of the South and Midwest have killed at least 9 people. The storms shredded homes and shopping centers and collapsed a theater roof during a heavy metal concert in Illinois.