Ten New York prison guards were charged Wednesday in connection with the fatal beating of a 22-year-old prison inmate, including two charged with murder. It's the second time this year a group of ...

A boat has capsized after catching fire in northwestern Congo, leaving at least 50 people dead and more than 100 missing, a local official said on Wednesday.

Oklahoma City and Cleveland are the top seeds in the NBA playoffs, which comes with some perks. They'll have home-court advantage for at least three rounds and, presumably, an easier path than others ...

A man died after falling from an upper gallery at a Michigan prison, the fifth inmate since 2020 to die from falling or jumping at two prisons where railings are only a few feet high.

The Lakers won seven of nine regular-season games before Sunday’s 109-81 road loss at Portland in which their top seven ...

The Federal Reserve can stay patient and wait to see how tariffs and other economic policies of the Trump administration play out before making any changes to interest rates, Chair Jerome Powell said ...

In Weatherwise magazine, Toby Nahum Carlson describes an emerging “warming hole” over the Upper Midwest: slightly lower spring temperatures and above-normal rainfall. This may be a “new permanent ...

The American Civil Liberties Union has sued the Department of Defense's school system for children of military families, asserting that the removal of race- and gender-related books and curricula ...

Young volunteers who respond to natural disasters and help with community projects across the U.S. have been discharged as a ...

Former Bayern Munich defender Benjamin Pavard scored against his old club to help Inter Milan to a 2-2 draw against the German team on Wednesday, sending the Nerazzurri through to the Champions League ...

Kansas health officials confirmed five new cases of measles Wednesday in an outbreak in the southwest corner of the state that's linked to Texas and New Mexico.

Georgia's highest court waded Wednesday into a fight between Black landowners and local officials who have weakened long-standing protections for one of the South's last Gullah-Geechee communities ...