It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and ...

The back-and-forth of these NBA Finals has been constant. Game 1 went to Indiana, so Oklahoma City had to bounce back in Game 2. Indiana reclaimed the series lead in Game 3, ...

Officials in Ireland began work Monday to excavate the site of a former church-run home for unmarried women and their babies to identify the remains of some 800 infants and young ...

Private prison operators are marketing their shuttered lockups to federal immigration officials as President Donald Trump ...

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to fire the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) entire vaccine board even as childhood vaccination ...

Gaza’s Health Ministry says 38 Palestinians have been killed in new shootings in areas of food distribution centers in the south of the territory. The toll Monday ...

Gjert Ingebrigtsen, the father of Norwegian track star Jakob Ingebrigtsen, was convicted Monday of assaulting his daughter and handed a suspended prison sentence. A court ...

Juneteenth celebrations have been scaled back this year due to funding shortfalls as companies and municipalities across the ...

As Republican senators consider President Donald Trump’s big bill that could slash federal spending and extend tax cuts, a new survey shows most U.S. adults don’t think the ...

Leavenworth, Kansas, occupies a mythic space in American crime, its name alone evoking a short hand for serving hard time.

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday that there is a possibility of both radiological and chemical ...

Buckminster Cat Cafe, which has been in business on Buffalo’s West Side for five-plus years, has closed its doors. The cafe, located on Niagara Street, had been open ...