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President Biden has signed legislation making Juneteenth, when enslaved people in Texas were told of their freedom in 1865, a federal holiday. It will be commemorated for the first time Friday.

Doing time in incarceration, a person can often lose hope. But that’s not the case for Aaron Daria. He has elaborate plans to start a ranch once he is paroled.

Imagine if you forgot how to speak the language you learned as a child — a language that gave you an identity, a language that says, "Hey you belong here,…

The eye came ashore near Ocean Isle Beach before the system weakened into a tropical storm. It's expected to linger in North Carolina before swirling up the Mid-Atlantic coast.

We look at where Congress is in negotiating its way out of a government shutdown that is in its fourth day, with no solution in sight.

The White House is using the government shutdown to push aggressive plans to further cut the federal workforce and control spending.

The largest water utility in Iowa is sounding alarms that it won't be able to keep up with cleaning the water for more than 600,000 customers as extreme weather swings become more common.

A U.S. District Court has ruled that Gruyère cheese can be made outside of the Swiss French border region –- including in the US. What does that mean for global trade?

Juneteenth is an annual celebration held on June 19 to commemorate the end of chattel slavery in America.

New Zealand's prime minister said Thursday that the country will ban semi-automatic rifles as funerals take place for some of the 50 killed in last week's shooting in Christchurch.

COVID-19 has spread to San Quentin State Prison, where over a dozen people incarcerated there have now been diagnosed with the virus. San Quentin began…

Turkeys Peanut Butter and Jelly will get the chance to see another day. The two lucky birds' names were revealed, with their videos posted, on the White House Twitter page.