US & World

Seeing one mountain lion is rare enough — the animals tend to both avoid humans and stick to themselves, the exact opposite of a pack…

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, passed the $1 trillion mark on Wall Street, joining Apple and Microsoft at the tippy top of the market.…

China’s birthrate in 2019 hit its lowest level since the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949, according to official statistics…

A new building on the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School will open in August to replace the site of one of the deadliest school shootings…

The South Korean military said it will make an unprecedented decision about the future of transgender soldiers who serve in the armed forces…

Someone shot at passing vehicles on a major highway in North Carolina, and authorities are warning drivers to be vigilant. “Please be careful…

Alyssa Nakken, a former softball star at Sacramento State, will join the San Francisco Giants coaching staff as the first female full-time assistant…

It might just be the most bizarre criticism of a US ambassador in recent memory. Harry Harris, Washington’s envoy to South Korea, has been…

Big government announcements in Russia are typically accompanied by simultaneous coverage on the nation’s state-run TV channels. But when…

Eight months ago, Narendra Modi was being hailed as India’s most popular leader in decades. His incumbent Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata…

Tara Houska was going through security at the Minneapolis airport Monday when a strange thing happened. A TSA agent told Houska she needed to pat…

A Dallas mother was told by her child’s school district that it would cost her $600 to see a video that showed what happened to her 5-year-old…

Part of a Starbucks location in McHenry, Illinois, collapsed after a pickup truck crashed into the building. Five people were injured, with two…

The FBI arrested three alleged members of a white supremacist group early Thursday, including two men accused of possessing a machine gun, over 1,000…

A Georgia death row inmate was granted clemency hours before his scheduled execution, in part because jurors wanted him to be sentenced to life…

Since none of the assembled 99 senators* felt like spending the weekend in jail, they did as they were told and kept mum at their desks. The archaic…

Seven jurors, including four men and three women, have been selected to serve in Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial. Prosecutor Joan Illuzzi accused…

A judge has upheld Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s decision to temporarily ban firearms and other weapons on state Capitol grounds in Richmond…

Libya’s renegade General Khalifa Haftar has “agreed to comply” with the terms of an existing ceasefire agreement in Libya,…

The primary allegations in the US. Virgin Islands’ lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein’s estate accuse him of carrying out an expansive sex…

It’s known as the Gilgo Beach murders, an unsolved case that has dredged up at least 11 human remains since 2010 and led to the hunt for a…

Golfer Blair O’Neal is just three months away from her due date, but that’s not stopping her from hitting the green. With a baby boy in…