U.S. & World

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have left a meeting with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris with an agreement on how to address the issue of policing in America after the recent killing of Tyre Nichols.

The 66-year-old woman was placed in a zipped body bag and taken to the funeral home and crematory where workers later found that she was breathing and called 911, the report said.

who had completed his sentence, ending an imprisonment that included torture at clandestine CIA sites and 16 years at the Guantanamo Bay detention center.

A study has revealed new details about what the ancient Egyptians used to mummify their dead.

A food delivery driver in San Jose said a minor traffic dispute earlier this week turned into a serious case of road rage when another driver smashed one of his car’s windows and then came at him with a machete.

A Michigan man says he was left with a $1,000 bill after his 6-year-old son ordered a virtual smorgasbord of food from several restaurants. Keith Stonehouse says the food piled up quickly at his Detroit-area home Saturday after his son, Mason, used Stonehouse’s Grubhub account to order such food as jumbo shrimp, salads and chili cheese fries. Stone...

Edgar Garay, 27, died after falling from a 70-foot cliff while on a day trip to Cabo Rojo, Coast Guard officials said.

A federal task force has reunited nearly 700 children who were separated from their families during the Trump administration.

As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine nears the one-year mark, Kyiv is sounding an increasingly urgent warning: President Vladimir Putin is preparing a major new offensive.

Details were revealed in court Wednesday in the case of a 70-year-old woman accused of hiding her mother’s body in a freezer, with prosecutors revealing the body has been concealed for nearly two years.

The government has been monitoring a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that has been hovering over the northern U.S. for the past few days, and they have discussed shooting it out of the sky, according to two U.S. officials and a senior defense official.

Brain shrinkage is similar in obese people and those with Alzheimer’s disease, scientists at McGill University found in a new study. 

A whale that washed ashore in Hawaii over the weekend likely died in part because it ate large volumes of fishing traps, fishing nets, plastic bags and other marine debris, scientists said Thursday, highlighting the threat to wildlife from the millions of tons of plastic that ends up in oceans every year.