A storm that’s lashing parts of New England with heavy rain, snow and wind is causing sporadic power outages

A U.S. Navy SEAL has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter for his role in the hazing death of a U.S. Army Green Beret in Africa

The driver of a New York City bus that plunged off a bridge has been suspended after refusing a drug and alcohol test

One of the largest jackpots in U.S. history is growing larger

A new U.N. report estimates that the COVID-19 pandemic reduced the number of international migrants by 2 million by the middle of 2020 because of border closings and a halt to travel worldwide

A plan to place the Arkansas man photographed sitting at a desk in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office during last week's riot at the U.S. Capitol on house arrest has been put on hold

Today in History Today is Saturday, Jan. 16, the 16th day of 2021. There are 349 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 16, 2020, the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump opened in the Senate, with senators standing and swearing an oath of “impartial justice.” Trump again denounced the proceedings as a “hoax,” while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said new evidence reinforced the need to call additional witnesses. On this date: In 1865, Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman decreed that 400,000 acres of land in the South would be divided into 40-acre lots and given to former slaves. (The order, later revoked by President Andrew Johnson, is believed to have inspired the expression, “Forty acres and a mule.”) In 1912, a day before reaching the South Pole, British explorer Robert Scott and his expedition found evidence that Roald Amundsen of Norway and his team had gotten there ahead of them. In 1919, pianist and statesman Ignacy Jan Paderewski...

The National Rifle Association has filed for bankruptcy protection and will seek to incorporate in Texas instead of New York

A Dallas-area real estate agent is facing charges for allegedly being part of the pro-President Donald Trump mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol last week

A special prosecutor says Virginia's attorney general has authorized an investigation into a $1.8 million contract for the removal of the city of Richmond's Confederate statues

A Massachusetts company has just won government approval to make fully automated commercial drone flights without a human operator around

Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager was remembered at a West Virginia memorial service as a hero, legend and friend who would go out of his way to help others

A Mississippi coroner says one person has been killed and another injured in a shooting at a county courthouse

The prosecution of former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and others in the Flint water crisis is igniting a debate over whether public officials are being punished for judgment calls

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has given the green light to long-debated flood control project in Mississippi

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints condemned “lawless behavior” and the violence of rioters who broke into the U.S. Capitol in a statement Friday

New Jersey made millions of people eligible to get the COVID-19 vaccine, including smokers, a move that prompted gripes about them skipping to the front of the inoculation line

Kansas City and the state of Illinois are suing the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for granting a license to an arms manufacturer that had gone bankrupt after being sued last year

A North Carolina woman recognized as the oldest living U.S. Marine has died at age 107

The U.S. Forest Service released an environmental impact statement Friday that paves the way for the creation of one of the largest copper mines in the United States

Authorities are investigating what caused a New York City bus to plunge off a bridge in dramatic fashion

CORRECTS: National Rifle Association files for bankruptcy, gun-rights group will legally move from New York to Texas

New York prosecutors conducted an hours-long interview Thursday of Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former attorney

The U.N. General Assembly and Security Council are expected to take the first step toward electing the next head of the global organization this month

Prosecutors say the manslaughter case against a former Boston College student accused of encouraging her boyfriend to take his own life will head toward trial