Penguin Random House, authors, parents and a free speech group filed a lawsuit Wednesday against a Florida school district for removing 10 books related to race and the LGBTQ community after a high school teacher complained.

White House negotiators met Speaker Kevin McCarthy’ aides at the Capitol to try to hammer out a deal to raise the debt ceiling ahead of a potential default.

Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes appears to be soon bound for prison after an appeals court Tuesday rejected her bid to remain free while she tries to overturn her conviction in a blood-testing hoax that brought her fleeting fame and fortune.

A new report says the average vehicle age is now 12.5 years, as the cost of a new cars has risen 24% over the past three years and used cars are up 40%.

Officials in northern Italy warned residents to get to higher ground Wednesday amid fears that rain-swollen rivers would again burst their banks, after flooding killed at least three people and forced the evacuation of some 5,000.

Reports Wednesday said 39 people are missing more than 24 hours after a Chinese fishing boat operating in the Indian Ocean capsized.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un examined a finished military spy satellite, which his country is expected to launch soon, during a visit to an aerospace facility where he described space-based reconnaissance as crucial for countering the U.S. and South Korea.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese ruled out a “Quad” summit meeting in Sydney without President Joe Biden.

North Carolina’s Legislature voted to override the governor’s veto of a 12-week abortion ban, allowing it to become law in a new show of power for the state GOP.

A doctor has been arrested and accused of fondling two teenage patients in Mississippi years after investigators for the state’s licensing board received a report from another young woman alleging he preyed on her in a medical examination in Florida.