Fifteen-time major champion Tiger Woods has withdrawn from the US Open at Los Angeles Country Club next month as he continues to recover from a recent surgery, the USGA announced Monday.
A 23-year-old man has lost his arm after he was attacked by an alligator near a pond behind a bar in southwest Florida early Sunday morning, officials say.
A Ukrainian "sabotage" group crossed into Russia and attacked a town in the Belgorod region, resulting in at least eight people being injured, its governor said. A Ukrainian official said the group was made up of Russian nationals, but insisted they were acting independently.
Republican US Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, who launched his presidential campaign n Monday, "is not fanning the flames of fear about 'American carnage'," writes John Avlon. "His place on the stage as a Black Republican US senator preaching the need for national unity to achieve national greatness goes a long way toward repudiating the white identity politics that fueled much of Trump's rise," Avlon writes.
Oakland Athletics broadcaster NBC Sports California has parted ways with play-by-play announcer Glen Kuiper after he used a racial slur during a pregame show earlier this month, the network announced Monday.
Millions of people in Mexico have been warned to prepare for a possible evacuation after increased activity from the country's most dangerous active volcano, which has been spewing ash into several nearby towns since last week, according to authorities.
Halle Bailey and Fantasia Barrino made their official debut on Monday in the first trailer for the upcoming "The Color Purple" movie, a musical reboot of the 1985 classic, based on the novel of the same name by Alice Walker.
A group of anti-Putin Russian nationals -- who are aligned with the Ukrainian army -- has claimed responsibility for an attack in Russian's southwestern region of Belgorod, as Moscow said it was fighting a group of saboteurs there.
Having sleep apnea and another chronic condition such as obesity, diabetes and heart disease raises the risk of developing long Covid by up to 75% on average, according to a new study from the National Institutes of Health's RECOVER Initiative.
About 155 resident physicians went on strike Monday at a New York hospital once called "the epicenter of the epicenter" of the nation's coronavirus pandemic, according to the residents' union.
At least 19 children died in a "horrific" school dormitory fire in Guyana, which has shocked the nation and led to its president to declare three days of national mourning.
The global loss of wildlife is "significantly more alarming" than previously thought, according to a new study that found almost half the planet's species are experiencing rapid population declines.
Maryland's governor is condemning a man who says he was protesting gun control laws by openly carrying an assault rifle near school bus stops in Anne Arundel County. Law enforcement says the man was not breaking any laws.
Nasir Grant and Ameen Hurst planned and executed an escape from a Philadelphia prison with the help of a look-out on the inside, a hole in the prison fence and a getaway car. They are now back in ciustody after a ten-day investigation that spanned 3 states and led to charges for 4 additional people.
South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott on Monday formally entered the Republican presidential primary, promising to take on "the radical left" and bring faith and conservative, business-friendly policies to the White House, as he seeks to upend a contest that has so far been dominated by coverage of former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is expected to enter the fray in the coming days.
A transgender teen in Mississippi missed her high school graduation after a federal judge denied a motion requesting she be allowed to wear a dress and heels under her robe.
Lashawn Thompson, who died inside a Georgia county jail last year, had been living in conditions akin to a "torture chamber" before ultimately dying of complications stemming from severe neglect to his mental and physical health, according to the man's family attorneys and an independent medical review.
