Colorado lawmakers have passed a sweeping bill to overhaul the state’s lax oversight over funeral homes after a series of horrific incidents, including sold body parts, fake ashes and the discovery of 190 decaying bodies.

Democratic state Rep. Delisha Boyd is fighting an uphill battle in her attempt to pass a bill that would exempt cases of rape and incest from Louisiana's near-total abortion ban.

Well before the year began, Associated Press journalists knew that surging migration through the Americas was a major story.

Text journalism's biggest day of the year has arrrived with the annual announcement of the Pulitzer Prizes.

A two-week standoff between pro-Palestinian protesters and college administrators at Columbia University in New York is coming to a head.

Witness testimony in Donald Trump’s hush money trial is set to resume.

U.S. authorities have arrested a Florida man in connection with the disappearance of his estranged wife in Spain three months ago.

High waters flooded neighborhoods around Houston following heavy rains that have resulted in crews rescuing more than 400 people from homes, rooftops and roads engulfed in murky water.

After AP's Pulitzer Prize-finalist investigation, a family of Atlanta kids struggling to enroll in school returned to class last month.

The Met Gala has inspired pajama-clad New Yorkers to fundraise for medical debt relief at an alternative benefit called the Debt Gala.