Courtesy of Averie Bishop(NEW YORK) — For the first time in state history, Asian American women will represent Texas at two of the most prestigious pageants in the country.

Averie Bishop from Dallas, made history in June when she became the first Asi…

Joe Raedle/Getty Images, FILE(NEW YORK) — Before Hurricane Ian brought destruction to the Florida Peninsula on Sept. 28, federal and state officials urged Floridians to evacuate their homes and seek shelter because of dangerous winds and deadly storm …

The Washington Post / Contributor/ Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Five days since Hurricane Ian made landfall as a Category 4 storm, hundreds of families are trying to pick up the pieces as the recovery process continues.

In the close-knit community of Har…

avid_creative/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — A Florida teenager was killed and two others injured after they allegedly stole and crashed a Maserati early Sunday morning, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.

Sheriff deputies said their helicop…

Kali9/Getty Images(AURORA, Colo.) — Aurora, Colorado police fatally shot a male robbery suspect they said threatened them with a gun following a vehicle chase that ended by Denver International Airport on Saturday, authorities said at a news conferenc…

Oliver Helbig/Getty Images(STOCKTON, Calif.) — Five unprovoked murders in the past several months appear to be the work of one person, according to the Stockton, California, Police Department.

Authorities are searching for a person of interest tied t…

Westend61/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Despite major progress in recent years in the fight for LGBTQ equality, older LGBTQ activists say the country is seeing increased political pushback against the LGBTQ communities, reminiscent of past anti-LGBTQ movem…

Specialist 1st Class Patrick W. Menah Jr/U.S. Navy(SAN DIEGO) — A sailor accused of setting a $1.2 billion Navy amphibious assault ship ablaze in San Diego was found not guilty by a military judge Friday.

Ryan Sawyer Mays was charged with aggravated …

Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Deanne Criswell was in Florida Friday with Gov. Ron DeSantis, assessing the historic damage from Hurricane Ian and facing her biggest challenge yet as the new head of FEMA — the Federal Emergency Management Age…

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — On Thursday, the Department of Education scaled back President Joe Biden’s federal student loan cancellation program to protect against legal challenges by six states, with new guidelines that excluded at le…

Win McNamee/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — New York Attorney General Letitia James wants to accelerate her $250 million fraud lawsuit against former President Donald Trump, his children, his company, and two of its executives.

James, in a letter to the s…

Ricardo Arduengo/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Hurricane Ian has passed through Florida, leaving a path of destruction in its wake as it now targets the Carolinas.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called the impacts and damage from the storm “historic” b…

Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska was charged Thursday with violating U.S. sanctions, according to an indictment unsealed in the Southern District of New York as part of the United States’ efforts…

NASA(NEW YORK) — Hurricane Ian developed into the monstrous, devastating storm meteorologists predicted it would be.

Ian barreled into the southwest coast of Florida as a major Category 4 hurricane before slowing to a crawl as it made its way across …

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images(DEL RIO, Texas) — Three children who survived the Robb Elementary School shooting and their parents filed the first federal lawsuit since the May 24 massacre in Uvalde, Texas, that killed 19 students and two teachers.

The …

Kate Holland/ABC News(UVALDE, Texas) — The Uvalde school district superintendent met Thursday with the guardian of a student killed in the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School, after family members of victims and their supporters camped out for alm…

Manuel Augusto Moreno/Getty Images(CHARLESTON, S.C.) — Another coastline known for its sensitivity to storm surge will feel Ian’s wrath as the storm system strengthens back into a hurricane and makes another landfall in a vulnerable region.

While Ian…

Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — At least 99 people in Florida have died due to Hurricane Ian, according to local officials.

Four additional people were also reported dead due to the storm in North Carolina, the govern…

JOSEPH AGCAOILI/AFP via Getty Images(FORT MYERS, Fla.) — Across Florida, at least 52 people died in the storm, according to information compiled from local officials. Of those, about 35 were in Lee County, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday…

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Federal prosecutors on Thursday unsealed a new indictment charging a Johns Hopkins doctor and her spouse, a U.S. Army Major stationed at Fort Bragg, with attempting to provide military service members’…