Hurricane Idalia caused "significant damage" after it ripped into Florida's Big Bend with 125 mph winds and record-setting storm surge. But the storm's evolution before landfall, and lucky timing with the tides, likely prevented an even worse disaster.
Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell is medically cleared to continue his schedule, the US Capitol physician said Thursday, after he froze for the second time in as many months in public.
Russian military hackers have been targeting Ukrainian soldiers' mobile devices in a bid to steal sensitive battlefield information that could aid the Kremlin's war on Ukraine, the US and its allies warned Thursday.
The fatal shooting of a University of South Carolina student who was trying to enter the wrong home on his own street has been deemed a justifiable homicide and no charges will be filed, police said.
Hurricane Idalia caused billions of dollars in damage, but the price tag won't be nearly as high as other major hurricanes, Moody's Analytics said Thursday.
A leader of the Proud Boys who led the far-right organization's infamous march to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, has been sentenced to 17 years in prison -- among the longest sentences handed down yet for a convicted rioter.
The entire front page of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's student newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel, Wednesday displayed "text messages sent and received by UNC students," during the hours-long lockdown on campus after one faculty member was murdered on Monday.
Justice Clarence Thomas disclosed Thursday that Republican megadonor Harlan Crow paid for private jet trips for Thomas in 2022 to attend a speech in Texas and a vacation at Crow's luxurious New York estate, as ethics questions continue to rock the Supreme Court.
A Mexican citizen was shot and wounded in the leg "while in Mexican territory" Saturday by a Texas National Guard member who was in the El Paso area, a news release from Mexico's Foreign Ministry said.
When Donald Trump urged the judge in his federal election subversion case to set his trial for April 2026 earlier this month, he cited a landmark Supreme Court decision concerning the infamous 1931 Scottsboro Boys cases to bolster his argument that special counsel Jack Smith isn't giving him enough time to prepare a defense.
Dollar General slashed its sales and profit outlook for the year on Thursday, blaming headwinds including weaker consumer spending on non-essential purchases and increasing theft.
Young-adult romance would seem like a fertile genre for Netflix's periodic adventures in interactivity, allowing viewers to make decisions for the protagonist and even select the guy they'd like to see her pick. Yet "Choose Love" strains the storytelling to fit the gimmick, in a special that does its central character no favors by making her race through the trio of suitors suddenly in her life.
The death toll from a raging fire in a five-story building in central Johannesburg has risen to 74, including 12 children, according to city authorities.
The number of price-capped products in French supermarkets will double to 5,000, finance minister Bruno Le Maire said Thursday, as data revealed another month of double-digit food inflation.
A Russian official claimed Thursday that a Ukrainian sabotage operation had been foiled in Bryansk, southwestern Russia, with several Ukrainians killed or captured.
