Plans are in motion for President Joe Biden to formally announce his bid for a second term as soon as next week, with a campaign-style video set to be released to definitively answer the question of whether he will run again and igniting an aggressive fundraising effort to help Democrats hold the White House.
An environmental activist killed earlier this year while protesting a planned law enforcement training facility in Atlanta sustained "at least" 57 gunshot wounds, according to a county medical examiner report.
Disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly is appealing one of his two federal convictions -- his September 2021 guilty verdicts on sex trafficking and racketeering charges in New York -- and is seeking a reversal of that conviction or a new trial, court documents show.
SpaceX's Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, took off from a launchpad in South Texas at 9:33 a.m. ET Thursday but exploded midair before stage separation.
Christmas came early on Thursday when Apple TV announced that "Ted Lasso" star Hannah Waddingham will headline a new musical special coming this holiday season.
Elon Musk's Twitter on Thursday began a purge of blue verification check marks from users who have not signed up for its subscription service, with the checks disappearing from the accounts of journalists, academics and celebrities.
Following the news on Thursday that prosecutors in the "Rust" case are planning to dismiss charges made against Alec Baldwin, the actor thanked his wife, Hilaria Baldwin, and his attorney Luke Nikas in an Instagram post.
Emergent, the maker of the opioid overdose antidote Narcan, said in a statement Thursday that it is aiming for an out-of-pocket price of less than $50 for its nasal spray product now that the US Food and Drug Administration allows for over-the-counter sales.
The case against former Fugees rapper Pras Michel, accused of playing a central role in a geopolitical conspiracy spanning two US presidencies, will be in the hands of the jury Monday morning.
The federal district judge who first suspended the US Food and Drug Administration's approval of the so-called abortion pill mifepristone failed to disclose during his Senate confirmation process two interviews on Christian talk radio where he discussed social issues such as contraception and gay rights.
United States President Joe Biden pledged a $500 million investment to the Amazon Fund on Thursday, a sum that would make his country one of the world's largest donors to the international conservation program to protect the Amazon rainforest from deforestation.
The $787.5 million settlement that Fox News has agreed to pay in the historic defamation case from Dominion Voting Systems is a blockbuster number by any measure — but when all is said and done, the chances that the right-wing network will end up absorbing the full cost is highly unlikely.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has unveiled his plan to address the nation's looming debt ceiling drama, offering to raise the borrowing cap by $1.5 trillion to prevent a default.
You'd hardly know by looking at financial markets that the US debt limit was breached in January. But that's starting to change, in what is shaping up to be a nail-biting game of debt ceiling squabbling as the shot clock is winding down.
The Justice Department reached million-dollar settlements in three major lawsuits against US fossil fuel companies Thursday that it says will reduce air pollution and planet-warming gas emissions in more than a dozen states and territories across the country.
Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, the former chief operating officer of failed startup Theranos and ex-boyfriend of founder Elizabeth Holmes, has reported to prison, according to his attorney.
More severe storms are threatening some 50 million people from Texas to Wisconsin after the same system left at least three people dead in Oklahoma, with a dozen tornadoes reported across three states and search-and-rescue still underway in some places.
