US & World

Halfway through a recent first date, my latest Tinder suitor — let’s call him Heath — interrupted the conversation, apologizing. “I…

The director of the religious group at the center of South Korea’s novel coronavirus outbreak has denied responsibility for the recent spike in…

Nearly everything about the last year in Israeli politics has been unprecedented. A second election. A third election. A sitting Prime Minister…

Not…

Runners Galen Rupp and Aliphine Tuliamuk won the US Olympic marathon trials on Saturday. Rupp, in the men’s competition, won in Atlanta with a…

Three men were injured, two critically, after an explosion and fire struck a business in downtown Los Angeles, fire officials said. About 140…

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his partner, Carrie Symonds, have announced they are expecting a baby and are engaged to be married, Downing…

A man stole an ambulance in Philadelphia and led police officers on a chase for more than an hour Friday night, police said. Medics responded to…

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian mother jailed in Iran on espionage charges, believes she has contracted coronavirus in Evin Prison…

Remember the shirtless, oiled-up Tongan man from the past two Olympics? Well, he’s coming back. Pita Taufatofua, the Tongan athlete who…

Joe Germanotta is the owner of the Art Bird & Whiskey Bar in New York City’s Grand Central Terminal, but he hasn’t paid more than…

Google jumped at the chance to share a new animated doodle on Saturday. In celebration of Leap Day, which only comes around once every four years,…

An unusual request at the end of a student’s exam was quickly shared by thousands, thanks to a Kentucky teacher’s Facebook post. Winston…

A fire prompted the evacuation of the Charlotte-Douglas International Airport tower Saturday in North Carolina, a Federal Aviation Administration…

A pet dog has been placed in quarantine in Hong Kong after it tested a “weak positive” for the novel coronavirus, authorities said. The…

A Boston mother and her daughter were speaking Spanish on their way home when authorities say two white women assaulted them because they thought…

A mother in Louisiana wrote a painfully honest obituary for her only child after he was shot and killed, writing that she hoped her words would show…

France’s equivalent of the Oscars — the Cesars — was thrown into turmoil Friday after director Roman Polanski won top awards,…

Imagine if you knew what your schedule would look like for the rest of your life, every day for forever. If every year began on a Monday, and all but…

A St. Louis police officer pleaded guilty to accidentally killing a female colleague at his home last year while they played a form of Russian…

For more than four decades, one California police department employed every method available in its search for the killer of a 57-year-old apartment…

Federal prosecutors charged a Pennsylvania resident with kidnapping after he allegedly lured a woman he led to believe was his girlfriend to the…

Girl Scout Cookie Weekend is here, which means the country’s youngest entrepreneurs will come out in droves to peddle their cookies, and…