U.S. & World

Taylor Swift has donated $5 million to Feeding America to support relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricanes Milton and Helene.

A company is recalling nearly 10 million pounds of meat and poultry made at an Oklahoma plant because the products may be contaminated with listeria bacteria.

Yom Kippur is the most important day of the year for the Jewish faith and ends the 10-day period of repentance and reflection known as the “High Holidays,” which began with Rosh Hashanah.

The Department of Justice reportedly was investigating how drug traffickers used TD Bank to launder money derived from fentanyl sales in the U.S.

Tom Brady, who spent three seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, pledged $100,000 to Hurricane Milton relief efforts in Florida.

Ethel Kennedy, the widow of former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and matriarch to the dynastic Kennedy family, suffered a stroke last week.

Tens of millions of retirees will see a modest increase in benefits this January when a new cost-of-living adjustment is added to Social Security payments.

A Washington state woman called 911 after her home was swarmed by masked intruders, aka scores of hungry raccoons.

The consumer price index was expected to show a 0.1% increase in September and a 2.3% gain from a year ago, according to Dow Jones consensus estimates.

Sean “Diddy” Combs is set to make his first appearance before the judge who is expected to preside over the hip-hop powerbroker’s trial on sex trafficking charges.

The Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang for what the Nobel committee called her “intense poetic prose.”

Tennis legend Rafael Nadal announced his retirement Thursday at age 38.

A Michigan teenager charged in the stabbing death of a gay Detroit man will be tried as an adult, in part because of the “heinous nature of the crime,” authorities said Tuesday.

The roof of Tropicana Field, the Tampa Bay Rays’ stadium, was destroyed after Hurricane Milton made landfall in the area Wednesday night.