U.S. & World

GameStop shares soared Monday after “Roaring Kitty” posted online for the first time in roughly three years.

The star prosecution witness in Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial, Michael Cohen, has taken the stand. Cohen is Trump’s former lawyer and personal fixer and is by far the most important witness in the case.

The vast coin collection of a Danish butter magnate is set to finally go to on sale a century after his death, and could fetch up to $72 million.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has replaced Sergei Shoigu as defense minister in a Cabinet shakeup that comes as he begins his fifth term in office.

Michael Cohen is the most central witness for prosecutors in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial.

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld was met with a wave of boos Sunday when students at Duke University in North Carolina walked out just before his commencement speech, the latest in a wave of anti-war protests that took place at college graduations across the country this weekend.

A second “Boardwalk Empire” actor has been injured in what police sources have described as a random attack in Manhattan. Medics responded to 3rd Avenue and East 28th Street, where they picked up Buscemi and took him to Bellevue Hospital. Police said the actor was treated for bruising, swelling, and bleeding to his left eye. The attacke...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken has delivered some of the Biden administration’s strongest public criticism yet of Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza.

Israeli forces are battling Palestinian militants across Gaza, including in parts of the devastated north that the military said it cleared months ago.

New York City’s watchdog agency says it has launched a probe into allegations that the New York City Police Department has improperly used its official social media accounts to target public officials and private citizens. The city’s Department of Investigation confirmed the probe in a statement Wednesday. It was prompted by recent requests f...

One teen was killed and another was critically injured in a shooting outside of a carnival being held in the parking lot of the Concord Mall in Wilmington, Delaware, Saturday night, officials say.

Since a Covid-era pause on student loan payments expired last fall, millions of student loan borrowers have been through a period of tough financial choices, confusion and frustration.

More working U.S. parents than ever are celebrating their first Mother’s Day with hard-fought access to paid time off to care for newborns. But the majority still must forego pay to care for new babies or other loved ones, even as efforts to expand paid parental and family leave gain traction.