US & World

The school year is starting on a somber note for the Gayle family. Leona Gayle, 3, is getting ready for her first day of pre-kindergarten, a…

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft scored another legal victory Wednesday when a Florida appeals court sided with a lower court decision to…

Some dinosaurs were so big the ground would have shaken while they walked. But how did they carry such massive loads? Dinosaurs likely had a…

Our sun may not be so alone after all. Astronomers have discovered neighboring 95 brown dwarfs, often referred to as failed stars, within a few dozen…

Scientists in Kenya found success once again in harvesting eggs from the only two northern white rhinos worldwide, furthering the initiative to save…

“UNC has a clusterf**k on its hands.” The editorial board for the student newspaper at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill…

It’s World Photography Day, so feast your eyes on some of the most striking photo stories that have been published this year. Here’s what…

Derek Harris, a Louisiana man who was sentenced to life in prison for selling less than $30 worth of marijuana, has been freed after nearly a decade…

Nearly every victim who took the stand against the Golden State Killer on Tuesday called him a monster — one they were finally able to face…

One of the men convicted in the murder of James Jordan, father of basketball legend Michael Jordan, has been granted parole, according to state…

Authorities arrested a man in Mississippi on Tuesday for allegedly commissioning a murder-for-hire plot that killed his teenage nephew. James Timothy…

A man has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of a missing Georgia mom whose toddler was found wandering barefoot in Florida last…

The New York Police Department announced the creation of an Asian Hate Crime Task Force after an increase in racist attacks against Asian Americans…

For Stefanie and Duane Lindsay, August 1 started out as a perfect day, filled with clam digging and playing at the beach with their 3-year-old dog,…

Tasmanian tigers, otherwise known as thylacines, were about half the size scientists once estimated them to be. This development has suggested that…

How did the zebra get its stripes? The fashionable patterned coat protects the animal from horsefly bites by disorienting the flies during the…

If 9-year-old Jordan could be anywhere in the world, he’d be at an adoption party celebrating with a forever family of his own. The Oklahoma…

A growing dent in Earth’s magnetic field over South America and the southern Atlantic Ocean could pose a risk to spacecraft and satellites.…