Associated Press

President Donald Trump said Friday he will nominate William Barr, the late President George H.W. Bush's attorney general, to serve in the same role.

President Donald Trump announced Friday he's nominating State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Four Gulf states are getting an additional $280 million in restoration grants from the BP oil spill of 2010.

A judge says a school board violated Louisiana's open-meetings law by ejecting a teacher who spoke out against giving the superintendent a $30,000 raise.

The Supreme Court says 85-year-old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fractured three ribs in a fall in her office at the court and is in the hospital.

A witness says someone shot into the crowd.

Republicans retained control of the Senate on Tuesday, ousting Democratic incumbents in Indiana and North Dakota

A former member of a Louisiana police department has been convicted of federal crimes involving excessive force.