U.S. & World

Rio’s City Hall has said some 1.5 million spectators are anticipated, more than 10 times more than Madonna’s record attendance of 130,000 in Paris’ Parc des Sceaux in 1987. Madonna’s official website has been hyping the show as the biggest ever in her four-decade career. In recent days, the buzz has been palpable. Fans milled outside the stately, b...

High waters flooded neighborhoods around Houston on Saturday following heavy rains that have already resulted in crews rescuing more than 400 people from homes, rooftops and roads engulfed in murky water.

The 150th Kentucky Derby was held at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky on Saturday and won by Mystik Dan.

A California man who organized a “group of fighters” to storm the U.S. Capitol — and later testified against one of his companions during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack — was sentenced on Friday to six months of home detention.

Maryland plans to rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge in just over four years at an estimated cost between $1.7 billion and $1.9 billion, a state transportation official said Thursday.

Decades after rescuing an abandoned infant, an Indiana police lieutenant was coincidentally reunited with the now-23-year-old man.

Artificial intelligence has both “enormous potential for good and enormous potential for harm,” the investing guru said during Berkshire’s annual meeting.

Larry Demeritte has run horses on Kentucky Derby day in the past, just never in the big race. The 74-year-old trainer says it was all practice for Saturday, when he will saddle West Saratoga in the Derby.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has proposed to shift marijuana from a “Schedule I” drug, which includes heroin and LSD, to a less tightly regulated “Schedule III” drug

On Cinco de Mayo, take some time to learn about the history and meaning of this day of remembrance — and how and where it’s celebrated now.

Police in southern New Jersey had to chase down, tackle and tie up a runaway, yet a-boar-able, pig on Friday afternoon. Thankfully, his owner picked him up before he became the Washington Township Police Department’s newest K-9.

An unruly passenger who was “physically combative” on a flight last month has been ordered to pay more $20,000 to United Airlines, according to court documents.

There have been weeks of protests, encampments and the occupation of an administration building at Columbia that led to a police response and mass arrests.