The Pentagon is considering several options to reduce the number of troops in Afghanistan, including one that would shift to a narrower counterterrorism mission, the top U.S. military officer told Congress on Wednesday.

An Alabama inmate who escaped from a state prison four months ago is now back in custody.

With the LSU football team enjoying a record-breaking and undefeated season, Louisiana's lawmakers have a special perk that gives them access to postseason game tickets at face value that regular fans can't easily obtain before they hit the pricey secondary market.

Of more than $1 million in uncollected misused, misappropriated or stolen public funds reported for the fiscal year ending June 2018, only $47,000 of it is owed to three Southeast Tennessee counties or government entities, according to two new Tennessee Comptroller's Office reports released this week.

Singer Bettye LaVette, piano man Eddie Boyd and 1920s star Victoria Spivey are among the performers named to the Blues Hall of Fame this year.

A year ago, Shoshana Zuboff dropped an intellectual bomb on the technology industry. She hasn't stood still since.

Tennessee's population is estimated to grow by 1 million over the next 20 years to nearly 7.8 million, according to the Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Tennessee.

Authorities are now offering a total of $12,500 for information leading to the capture of a teen who escaped a Tennessee juvenile detention center last month.

Saudi Arabian oil company Aramco surpassed Apple as the world's most valuable public company Wednesday when its shares made their debut on the Saudi stock exchange, part of an ambitious shift away from the very fossil fuels the country's economy depends on.

The Federal Reserve left its benchmark interest rate alone Wednesday and signaled that it expects to keep low rates unchanged through next year.

A Tennessee music producer has been arrested and accused of sexually assaulting two children.

Doctors on Wednesday reported unusually good results from tests of two experimental drugs in women with an aggressive form of breast cancer that had spread widely and resisted many previous treatments.

A January election is set to fill a vacancy in the Georgia state House.

Nearly a half-billion people in the Asia-Pacific are still malnourished and eliminating hunger by 2030 requires that millions escape food insecurity each month, according to a report released Wednesday by UN agencies.

Atlanta police charged a mother with cruelty to children Wednesday after her special needs teenager was found abandoned at a downtown hospital, cold, confused and unable to say who he was.

Hundreds of thousands of Americans who rely on the federal food stamp program will lose their benefits under a new Trump administration rule that will tighten work requirements for recipients.

An Alabama man was shot to death after exchanging gunfire with sheriff's deputies near Mobile, authorities said.

The Florida Department of Health says a second person in Florida has died due to complications from vaping.

For Hong Kong spectators mentally and physically drained from six months of pro-democracy protests that have convulsed the city, a rousing performance of "Les Miserables" proved almost too much to bear.

A Georgia man has apologized on-camera for slapping a female reporter's rear on live TV after the video clip garnered outrage among millions who viewed it online and prompted police to investigate the case as a possible sexual battery.

The New York Yankees landed the biggest prize of the free agent market, adding Gerrit Cole to their rotation with a record $324 million, nine-year contract on Tuesday night, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press.

A city in Georgia has voted to stop using taxpayer dollars to fund a veterans parade following a lawsuit by a group of Confederate descendants who were barred from flying the Confederate flag during the event.

Police are investigating what happened to a mother and her 12-year-old son who were found shot to death in their Tennessee home on Tuesday.