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The academic games were canceled last year, but the mental sport is back. First lady Jill Biden is attending the finals Thursday night in Orlando, Fla.

The assassination of Haiti's President Jovenel Moïse on Wednesday has pitched the country into uncertainty. Haiti was already in crisis even before its president's assassination.

Amazon is building a warehouse that will bring 1,000 jobs to Davenport once it opens. Iowa’s DNR is adding protections to a stream in northeast Iowa where it recently approved plans for a large cattle operation nearby. And, an Iowa team of refugees and immigrants under age 13 is headed to Minnesota for an international soccer tournament this weekend.

Eleven students will compete Thursday night in the finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. If there isn't a clear winner after an hour and 50 minutes of competition, they'll go into a spell-off.

Dr. Barbara Ferrer, LA County's public health director, describes a recent spike in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations among Black residents and also county efforts to improve vaccination rates.

Lumber prices soared during the pandemic, sparking inflation fears. Just as quickly, prices then dropped, but that's not the end of the story.

Massachusetts and New York are among the states agreeing to end the fight to halt a controversial Purdue Pharma bankruptcy plan. The deal shelters members of the Sackler family from opioid lawsuits.

Political instability, the lasting effects of a devastating earthquake and a cholera epidemic, foreign political interventions and gang violence have all taken their toll on this nation.

After 14 days of searching, the operation now turns to a "recovery" phase. None of the victims recovered from the wreckage as of Wednesday morning survived the initial collapse, authorities said.

Oil prices were surging, but a dramatic meeting of many of the world's crude producers has thrown things into a bit of turmoil.