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Moments after the news broke about the apparent abduction of Today show host Savannah Guthries mother, the floodgates opened on social media

President Donald Trump has taken an unusual step of turning to military leaders for high-level diplomacy

Venezuelas former President Nicols Maduro and the countrys acting President Delcy Rodrguez were both raised Catholic in an overwhelmingly Christian country

It's frequently a challenge for a news organization to cover a story that involves itself, or one of its employees

The winning numbers in Friday evenings drawing of the Mega Millions game were: 13-21-25-52-62, Mega Ball: 19, Megaplier:

The latest census estimates show more than 68 million people in the U.S. identify as ethnically Hispanic

Its been a week since Today show host Savannah Guthries mother disappeared from her home in Arizona in what authorities say was a kidnapping

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is heading into a challenging reelection bid as she continues to suffer fallout from last years devastating wildfire

Experts say abductions for ransom are rare, despite dramatic portrayals on TV

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore funding for a new rail tunnel between New York and New Jersey

A federal judge says the Trump administration must bring back three deported families who should have been allowed to remain in the United States under a court settlement involving the separation of children from their parents at the border

Nearly two weeks after a massive storm left much of Mississippi covered in ice, some people are still without power

A jury has found former major league outfielder Yasiel Puig guilty of obstruction of justice and lying to federal officials investigating an illegal gambling operation, the U.S. Attorneys Office said Friday

A soft layer of white snow blankets the grounds of the Chicago Botanic Garden

Elon Musk's Vegas Loop, an underground transit system of private tunnels, is facing scrutiny from Nevada lawmakers after years of complaints about workplace safety and alleged violations

A New York City police officer has been convicted of manslaughter after he tossed a picnic cooler filled with drinks at a fleeing suspect, causing him to fatally crash his motorized scooter

At least three people have died and three others have required a liver transplants after eating the Death Cap mushroom that is proliferating in California following a rainy winter

A federal jury has ordered Uber to pay $8.5 million to a woman who says an Uber driver raped her during a 2023 trip

Norwegian crown princess issues apology to those she has 'disappointed' amid scrutiny of Epstein links

For many immigrant families in Minnesota, sending a child to school each day requires faith that one of the thousands of federal immigration officers deployed around the state wont detain them

Ronald Hicks is set to be installed as the 11th archbishop of New York on Friday

A Colorado funeral home owner who stashed 189 decomposing bodies and gave families fake ashes is set to be sentenced Friday

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Derrick Johnson buried his mothers ashes in 2023 alongside his home on Maui, fulfilling her wish of a final resting place overlooking her grandchildren

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey set a March execution date for a man sentenced to death for a fatal shooting during a 1991 robbery

Nearly 70 people had to be rescued from gondola cabins at an upstate New York ski area after a mechanical problem forced a shutdown

A Tennessee appeals court has ruled that the writings of a shooter who killed six people at the Covenant School in Nashville can be made available to the public

A growing number of Republican-led states are seeking to revive the death penalty for child rape

A new study reveals that cancer patients diagnosed during the early COVID-19 pandemic had worse short-term survival rates than a similar group before the pandemic

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has endorsed Gov. Kathy Hochul for reelection, offering the moderate governor some progressive heft in her campaign for a second full term

The detention of a Turkish couple who own a New Jersey kebab shop helped galvanize their community against immigration crackdowns last year

Bank of England keeps its main interest rate unchanged at 3.75% with UK inflation still above target

An Arizona Department of Public Safety helicopter responding to an active shooter situation has crashed, killing both the pilot and a trooper who was a paramedic

Authorities say the parents of a 16-year-old boy who wounded two students at a Colorado high school with an old revolver won't be charged

The Trump administration says it wants to create a critical minerals trading bloc with its allies and partners

A hearing with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent turned chaotic Wednesday as Democratic lawmakers clashed with him over fiscal policy and Trump family conflicts

Officials say emergency crews battled a blaze and evacuated patients from a hospital in Pennsylvania as fire engulfed part of the facility

A judge says U.S. immigration agents in Oregon must stop arresting people without warrants unless they are likely to escape

Shares have retreated in Asia on heavy selling of technology stocks, while the price of bitcoin fell as much as 8%

The winning numbers in Wednesday evenings drawing of the Powerball game were: 27-29-30-37-58, Powerball: 15

A Texas A&M University professor who was fired last year after a controversy over a classroom video that showed a student objecting to a childrens literature lesson about gender identity has sued the school

President Donald Trump is taking steps toward installing a statue of Christopher Columbus near the White House

Former U.S. Rep. Lee Hamilton, a crewcut-wearing Indiana Democrat who was a leading foreign affairs voice during three decades in Congress, has died

NBC says that veteran Olympics broadcaster Mary Carillo will replace Savannah Guthrie as co-host of opening ceremonies for the Winter Games in Italy

Elon Musk is bringing the same revolutionary thinking that helped him upend the car industry to the data center business with promises this week to put up to a million new satellites in the sky

An Argentine judge has requested the extradition from the United States of former Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro, who was captured by the U.S. military last month and now faces federal charges of narco-terrorism and conspiracy to import cocaine in...

A new study out in the journal Science Advances finds that chronic exposure to wildfire smoke has contributed to tens of thousands of deaths each year in the United States

Firefighters came to the rescue of a swan found stuck in a frozen Connecticut river this week

A man has been charged in connection with the armed robbery of an NFL player at a New Jersey home last year

New international polling from Gallup shows that Americans are exceptionally anxious about their political system