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Max Verstappen may be having a record-breaking season on the track but he's far from happy with some of the media coverage he has been receiving lately.

An "extremely rare" first-edition copy of the US Constitution will go under the hammer in New York next month, with Sotheby's auction house expecting bids up to $30 million.

Donald Trump Jr. must have thought he was being funny. After a man invaded House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's home in San Francisco and beat her 82-year-old husband with a hammer, former President Donald Trump's eldest son posted a photo of a hammer and men's briefs on social media. "I've got my Paul Pelosi Halloween costume ready," the caption read, apparently a reference to an erroneous report, since corrected, that the attacker was in his underwear.

With the holiday travel surge right around the corner, some pilots are intensifying their push for better pay by insisting they will strike unless they get a new contract. Some Delta pilots say their contract is years out of date, while pilots at other airlines -- especially regional carriers -- have already negotiated substantial pay bumps amid crew and staffing shortages.

For all of former President Donald Trump's efforts to defeat Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp during the primary, the Republican governor is loath to criticize his party's most influential figure ahead of next week's general election.

Pfizer says it has enough promising data on its respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, vaccine designed to protect newborns that it will end enrollment in the study and submit for US Food and Drug Administration approval by the end of the year.

The Federal Reserve's war on inflation isn't just painful for home buyers and people with credit card debt. Uncle Sam is getting squeezed by higher borrowing costs, too.

Monday night proved a haunting evening for Joe Burrow.

Fans of Studio Ghibli have yet another reason to travel to Japan. A new theme park dedicated to the popular animation company's productions is finally open in Aichi prefecture, less than an hour from Kyoto by train.

Elon Musk has filled the void vacated by Donald Trump on Twitter, mirroring the former president's behavior on the platform through his promotion of misinformation, attacks on news organizations, and desire to rule by tweet.

More than 12 hours after Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was pronounced the winner of Brazil's 2022 presidential election, incumbent Jair Bolsonaro has yet to publicly acknowledge his loss.

The man alleged to have attacked Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is expected in a San Francisco court on Tuesday for his arraignment.

Chief Justice John Roberts has at times staked out the middle ground on the conservative-dominated Supreme Court -- as in June when he tried to prevent the majority from completely overturning federal abortion rights. But when it comes to race and such issues as school integration and redistricting, Roberts has been unyielding in decrying, the "sordid business, this divvying us up by race."

This November, billions of people around the world will tune in to the World Cup -- one of the greatest sporting spectacles in human history. It's an event that has brought wars to a standstill, canonized sporting saints and sinners, and united the planet in savoring every exclamation point goal, last-ditch tackle and intricately choreographed celebratory knee-slide.

As part of the city's effort to find unidentified victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, 17 additional adult burials have been uncovered at an excavation site in the Oaklawn Cemetery, the Oklahoma state archeologist said Monday.

While hordes of children take to the streets to hunt for sugary sweets this Halloween, it's the grown ups that could be vying for the real treat: an estimated $1 billion Powerball jackpot.

One person was killed and as many as six others were injured in a shooting Monday night at a Halloween party at a home in Kansas City, Kansas, police said.

Miles of brittle, uprooted almond trees lay dead on their sides on parched farmland in Coalinga, California, as an intensifying drought, new restrictions and skyrocketing water prices are forcing farmers to sacrifice their crops. Roadside signs warn against watering front lawns as residents brace for higher water bills as the precious resource disappears.

American politics is festering in violence, intimidation and inhumanity as another election looms amid escalating risks to political figures, all of which poses a grave threat to democracy.