A federal judge in Seattle issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday to stop the release of blueprints to make untraceable and undetectable 3D-printed plastic guns, saying they could end up in the wrong hands.
Nation and World
An Aeromexico airliner crashed after taking off in the northern state of Durango on Tuesday, but the state’s governor said there were no deaths in the accident.
Two sets of 24-year-old identical twins had their first date together, became engaged at the same time and are now preparing to tie the knot in Michigan this weekend.
Scientists are touting the first sighting of a hybrid between a melon-headed whale and a rough-toothed dolphin in the ocean off Hawaii. But don’t call it a “wholphin,” they say.
A Nevada man died when a commercial canoe with 10 people on board overturned in a glacier river in southeast Alaska.
An upstate New York couple born two years and two days apart and married 78 years has died within two days of each other.
A man who fatally shot an intruder in his suburban Denver home early Monday was killed by responding officers who saw him holding a weapon, investigators said.
Firefighters reported progress Tuesday in their battle against the wildfires that have ravaged some of Northern California’s most scenic areas.
Local authorities, along with animal rights groups, are now in the process of finding homes for 533 greyhounds abandoned in kennels.
A shark police say was snatched from a petting tank at the San Antonio Aquarium and wheeled out in a baby stroller is back home alive, and investigators say a person confessed to the deed.
In response to the Las Vegas mass shooting, the second-in-command of Chicago police announced Monday that the department is bolstering security measures for the city’s upcoming Lollapalooza music festival.
The helicopters carrying 16 guardsmen left Reno for Lakeport, California, at about 10 a.m. Both helicopters are equipped with water buckets to help extinguish the blaze.
Associated Press journalist Michael Graczyk, who witnessed and chronicled more than 400 executions as a criminal justice reporter in Texas, will retire Tuesday after nearly 46 years with the news service.
Georgia’s governor on Monday made good on his vow to restore a tax cut on jet fuel sales that was previously killed by state GOP lawmakers irate with Delta Air Lines for ending a discount for members of the National Rifle Association.
The former head of FEMA’s personnel office had improper sexual relationships with subordinates and created a “toxic” work environment, according to a summary of an internal investigation obtained Monday by The Associated Press.