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Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a law allowing Florida leaders to label groups as domestic or foreign terrorist organizations. The law, signed Monday, lets a top official at the Florida Department of Law Enforcement designate groups as terrorist organizations, with approval from the governor and state cabinet.

There was confusion about whether the satirist would be getting the Kennedy Center's top humor award after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called it "fake news." Now it's confirmed.

The top two finishers in the Republican caucuses in Iowa — Ted Cruz and Donald Trump — made their closing pitches in New Hampshire, but to a very different electorate.

San Antonio is hosting its fifth NCAA men's Final Four, and authorities are stepping up security measures, with safety top of mind since the deadly New Year's truck attack in New Orleans.

The SAVE America Act, a far-reaching Republican election overhaul that President Trump said should be his congressional allies' top priority, has failed in the Senate.

In a rural North Carolina town, photographer Madeline Gray paints an intimate portrait of a girl's basketball team.

South Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz joined other top House Democrats at a Louisiana town hall Thursday night to preview one of the party’s strategies for attempting to retake the U.S. House next year, ripping into the health care changes in the just-passed Republican tax and spending bill.

Jackie Wiles and Paula Moltzan won bronze, for both a first career Olympic medal. For Shiffrin, the world's top slalom skier, a 4th-place finish was her 7th consecutive Olympic race without a medal.

People in China protest the government's COVID lockdown. Democrats rush to pass bills before Republicans take over the House. Voting starts in Georgia in a runoff for the final unresolved Senate seat.

Two years ago, the successful union drive at this plant was expected to spark victories throughout the South. But now, as members vote to make their contract official, momentum has fizzled.

Most Democratic voters say they could change their minds about whom they support. So be prepared for surprises as voting begins in the Democratic nominating contests next month.

Our special series "Where We Call Home" on small towns. All the focus is on booming urban centers, but some small towns are experiencing a "brain gain" too.

Young people don't vote, right? Political campaigns often dismiss young folks, but a new index suggests they could tilt the balance of power in key states this election.

Melissa Block talks with Lolis Eric Elie, a writer and editor behind the HBO series Treme about a new cookbook written in the voices of the show's characters. Elie says it reflects both old New Orleans traditions and more recent influences.

Karen Dietrich is stepping down as interim chief of the Fort Lauderdale Police Department after six months in the role, effectively taking herself out of the running to be the agency’s top cop.

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday put a cap on one of his top legislative priorities by signing an “anti-mob” legislation into law back where it all began.

Kashe Quest, 2, ranks in the top 2% of high IQs in the U.S. She knows how to read, speak Spanish, English and sign. She can name every U.S. state, and pick out elements on the periodic table.

Comedienne and superstar ROSEANNE ARNOLD. Her show "Roseanne" debuted in 1988 and has consistently been a top TV series. She has often made news--she forced out the show's executive producer in a dramatic confrontation, she went public with accusations of incest, she performed a controversial rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner" at a baseball game. In 1989, she published her first book, "Roseanne: My Life as a Woman" which became a best seller. Now she has written "My Lives" (Ballantine Books). In this latest memoir, ROSEANNE discourses on her life since "Roseanne" became a hit. She also writes about her past, her troubles with drugs, with her body image and with the press.

2: Cuban-born saxophonist and composer, PAQUITO D'RIVERA. D'RIVERA defected to the United States in 1980 during a concert tour. Like his mentor, Dizzy Gillespie, D'RIVERA is a tireless performer and purveyor of Latin jazz. His "REUNION" album (Messidor), recorded with trumpeter Arturo Sandoval was called a "high speed tour of the Pan-American musical map." For his newest record D'RIVERA gathered 23 of the top Cuban musicians from around the world: "Pasquito D'Rivera Presents 40 Years of Cuban Jam Session"

Television executive GRANT TINKER has written a memoir about his life in TV. "Tinker in Television: From General Sarnoff to General Electric" (Simon & Schuster). TINKER was co-founder of the production company MTM Enterprises with his then wife Mary Tyler Moore. He left MTM at the peak of its sucsess to become the chairman of NBC, and made it the top-rated network, with shows like "Cheers," "The COsby Show," and "St. Elsewhere."