U.S. & World

President Donald Trump has announced that the U.S. will be terminating its relationship with the World Health Organization

A divided Supreme Court on Friday rejected an emergency appeal by a California church that challenged state limits on attendance at worship services that have been imposed to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Over the dissent of the four more conservative justices, Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court’s four liberals in turning aw...

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms made an impassioned plea to the citizens of Atlanta, urging them to “go home.”

As Joe Biden’s vice presidential search moves into a new, more concentrated phase, external events appear likely to intensify a public pressure campaign on the nominee over whom he should chose, particularly over the long-simmering debate over race. The death of 46-year-old George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer has thr...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Friday he wasn’t going to take down President Donald Trump’s posts about shooting alleged looters in Minneapolis nor put a warning on them as Twitter, but he acknowledged he had been “struggling all day” with how to respond. Zuckerberg, in a late afternoon post on his Facebook wall, largely st...

Several nights of violent protest in Minneapolis have prompted questions about whether city leaders have bungled their response.

President Donald Trump warned that protesters outside the White House Friday night could have been “greeted” with “vicious dogs” and “ominous weapons” if they had breached the fence, and praised the Secret Service for their response to the demonstrations.

As if trips to the grocery store weren’t nerve-racking enough, U.S. shoppers lately have seen the costs of meat, eggs and even potatoes soar as the coronavirus has disrupted processing plants and distribution networks.

Among the unrest across the country this week over the disturbing video showing a Minneapolis police officer kneeling on George Floyd’s neck was the looting of Target stores.

One security officer with the Federal Protective Service was killed, and another injured after shots rang out amid protests in Oakland amid protests over the death of George Floyd on Friday, authorities said.

One person was arrested after eight homeless people were given poisoned food that sent several to the hospital, Southern California authorities said Friday. The poisonings occurred over the course of about a week in mid-May in Huntington Beach in Orange County south of Los Angeles, authorities said. The victims were given food laced with oleoresin ...

The European Union is urging President Donald Trump to rethink his decision to terminate the U.S. relationship with the World Health Organization as spiking coronavirus case numbers in India and elsewhere indicate the pandemic is far from contained

With the weather outlook improving, two NASA astronauts have strapped into a SpaceX rocket ship for a history-making ride into orbit