Associated Press

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has called for the reauthorization of the authority, which is included in a spending bill that continued to be debated Thursday.

A Jersey Shore environmental group says damage from decades of toxic waste dumping at one of America's most notorious pollution sites caused $1 billion worth of damages.

Luigi Mangione agreed on Thursday to be extradited at a court appearance in Pennsylvania, where he was arrested last week after five days on the run.

Mangione was charged under a state law that allows for stiffer sentences for terrifying civilians or influencing government. He is currently jailed in Pennsylvania.

The University of Pennsylvania said the new filings in a 2022 class-action lawsuit were meant to embarrass the schools. Ten have agreed to settlements.

Marty Small Sr., 50, is accused of asking his daughter to claim that a head injury she sustained on Jan. 13 occurred when she tripped and fell in her bedroom.

Detectives traced a vehicle one suspect drove to the scene to a Philadelphia home where they found the jewelry box, they said.

Moravian missionaries named the Pennsylvania city of Bethlehem after the biblical birthplace of Jesus on Christmas Eve in 1741.

State lawmakers may change the law to make gambling by those under 21 no longer punishable under criminal law, instead imposing fines ranging between $500 and $2,000.

Luigi Mangione already was charged with murder in the Dec. 4 killing of Brian Thompson, but the indictment could help move along procedural steps toward extraditing him.

Dozens of mysterious nighttime flights first spotted in New Jersey last month and now being seen across the U.S. have raised concerns among residents and officials.

Rex Heuermann, 61, is charged with killing six other women whose remains were found on Long Island.