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New York’s highest court declined to block Donald Trump’s upcoming sentencing in his hush money case Thursday.
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter will be honored Thursday with the pageantry of a funeral in the nation’s capital and second service in his tiny Georgia hometown.
A new, fast-moving fire has broken out in the Hollywood Hills about a mile from the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Schools and cities from Texas to Georgia are shutting down in anticipation of freezing rain and snow forecast for much of the Southern U.S.
California firefighters are battling wind-whipped wildfires tearing across the area.
Five people have been killed in the wildfires and several others are injured, according to the Los Angeles fire chief.
A JetBlue passenger suddenly opened an exit door as a flight was taxiing for takeoff at a Boston airport.
Massive wildfires burning in the Los Angeles area have filled the air with a thick cloud of smoke and ash, prompting air quality advisories across a vast stretch of Southern California.
The changes are worrying advocates for vulnerable groups.
Biden, who was in Los Angeles and saw the baby at the hospital, announced the birth at the end of an official briefing on wildfires in California.
Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter will continue to lie in state after his remains arrived in Washington a day earlier as part of state funeral rites.
The Justice Department says it will release special counsel's findings on Trump's Jan. 6 probe but withhold the rest of the report.
A man was arrested Wednesday for trying to bring a machete and knives into the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, police said.
An area stretching from Texas to Tennessee braces Wednesday for the possible arrival of freezing rain and snow.
President-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to call off Friday’s sentencing in his hush money case in New York.
Sheinbaum proposed that North America should be renamed “Mexican America” because a founding document dating from 1814 that preceded Mexico’s constitution referred to it that way.
"Wicked" topped nominations to the 31st Screen Actors Guild Awards on Wednesday.
Homes have burned and tens of thousands of people are under evacuation orders, some of whom abandoned cars and fled on foot due to clogged roads.
The first significant winter storm of the year blasted a huge swath of the country with ice, snow and wind.
Facebook and Instagram owner Meta said Tuesday it’s scrapping its third-party fact-checking program.
Ex-gang leader Duane Davis is seeking to have charges against him dismissed in the 1990s killing of rap music icon Tupac Shakur.
Judge temporarily blocks release of special counsel report on Trump cases amid simmering court fight
A judge has temporarily blocked the release of the special counsel report on investigations into President-elect Donald Trump.
A New York appeals court judge on Tuesday denied President-elect Donald Trump‘s latest bid to delay this week’s sentencing in his hush money case.
Peter Yarrow, one-third of the folk-music trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died at 86.
The Gulf of Mexico is often referred to as the United States' “Third Coast” due to its coastline across five southeastern states.
Unpaid medical bills will no longer appear on credit reports, according to a final rule announced Tuesday by the Biden administration.
A strong earthquake shook a high-altitude region of western China and areas of Nepal on Tuesday.
Consumer advocates, who have long sought limits on lead in children's foods, welcomed the guidance but said it didn't go far enough.
Aeromexico ranked the world's most punctual airline for 2024, according to an annual ranking released Thursday.
President Joe Biden on Monday visited the city where an Army veteran drove a truck into revelers in the French Quarter, killing 14 and injuring 30 more.
The eastern two-thirds of the U.S. will experience dangerous, bone-chilling cold and wind chills, forecasters said.
James Arthur Ray died “suddenly and unexpectedly” late last week, as reported by his family.
The company said 30% of its U.S. leaders are members of underrepresented groups, up from 29% in 2021.
The first U.S. bird flu death has been reported — a person in Louisiana who had been hospitalized with severe respiratory symptoms.
Trump is certified as the 2024 election winner without challenge, in stark contrast to 2021 violence
Congress has certified President-elect Donald Trump as the 2024 election winner without challenge.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigned Monday.
The win for "The Brutalist" puts the postwar epic on course to be a major contender at the Academy Awards.
President Joe Biden signed into law a measure that boosts Social Security payments for current and former public employees, affecting nearly 3 million people who receive pensions from their time as teachers, firefighters, police officers and in other public service jobs.
An avalanche killed one skier and injured another after the group they were in triggered the large snowslide while ascending a mountain in western Wyoming.
It’s now been two and a half years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and opened the door for states to implement bans.
A blast of snow, ice, wind and plunging temperatures stirred up dangerous travel conditions in parts of the central U.S.
The New England Patriots fired coach Jerod Mayo on Sunday shortly after New England closed its 4-13 season with a 23-16 win over the Buffalo Bills.
The White House says the recipients have made “exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States, world peace, or other significant societal, public or private endeavors.”
New Orleans has held a vigil on Bourbon Street to mourn and celebrate the lives of those killed when a man rammed a pickup truck into a crowd, killing and injuring revelers celebrating the new year.
The suspect is being held without bail after she was arraigned on murder charges.
A major winter storm began Saturday in the central U.S. and was forecast to move east over the next several days.
A fire that broke out at a shopping center in Dallas on Friday killed hundreds of animals, most of which were small birds.
Jason Kelce has tried his hand at late-night television.
The stepson of Prince William and Prince Harry's former nanny was one of the 14 people killed in the New Year's truck attack in New Orleans.
Tomiko Itooka became the oldest person last year following the death of 117-year-old Maria Branyas, according to the Gerontology Research Group.
