Police say at least 11 people are hurt in a shooting in a South Carolina beach town.
Kyle Larson has arrived at Charlotte Motor Speedway in time for the Coca-Cola 600. Larson crashed out of the Indianapolis 500 near the midway point Sunday. That ended the NASCAR superstar’s second …
Religious services, concerts and vigils are scheduled to mark the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder by a police officer in the cities where Floyd grew up and where he died. Events at …
Police reform and civil-rights activists joined thousands of people on Sunday to mark the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder and decry the Trump administration for actions they say set …
Susan Brownmiller, a prominent feminist and author of the 1960s and ’70s whose “Against Our Will” was a landmark and debated best-seller about rape, has died. She was 90. A journalist, anti-war …
The Israeli military says it intercepted a missile fired by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels. The missile triggered air raid sirens in Jerusalem and other areas on Sunday. There were no immediate …
A swarm of people poured through the gates at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Some were shirtless, some wore American flag overalls, others checkered flag mini-skirts. The grandstands for the …
A dual U.S.-German citizen has been arrested on charges that he traveled to Israel and attempted to firebomb the U.S. Embassy branch office in Tel Aviv. Federal prosecutors in New York on Sunday said …
A sheriff's office says a woman and her adult daughter have been arrested after an infant died at an illegal day care they were running in central California. The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office …
Alex Palou is 1st Spaniard to win Indianapolis 500, as the 3-time IndyCar champ has won 5 of his 1st 6 races this season.
Christophe Clement, one of the top thoroughbred trainers in the United States over the last 34 years, has died. He trained longshot Tonalist to victory in the 2014 Belmont Stakes and won a …
One initiative distributes laptops in rural Iowa. Another helped people get back online in North Carolina after Hurricane Helene washed away computers and phones. And there are efforts in Oregon and …
In what had long been celebrated every May 30 to honor America’s fallen soldiers, Memorial Day officially became a federal holiday in 1971, observed on the last Monday in May. Businesses …
Strauss' “Blue Danube” waltz is heading into space this month to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth. The European Space Agency's big dish antenna in Spain will beam the waltz into …
As the Trump administration cut billions of dollars in federal funding to scientific research, thousands of scientists in the U.S. lost their jobs or grants. And governments and universities around …
Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first American to lead the Catholic Church elevated him to the rare position of being a U.S. citizen who is also a foreign head of state. The new pope was born in …
Today is Sunday, May 25, the 145th day of 2025. There are 220 days left in the year. Today in history: On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a Black man, was killed when a white Minneapolis police …
Officials say a cryptocurrency investor has been arrested and charged with kidnapping, assaulting and holding a man against his will for several weeks in an upscale Manhattan town house. Authorities …
A massive loggerhead sea turtle that was hit by a boat off Florida’s Atlantic coast arrived at a turtle hospital in need of medical care. But at 302 pounds, Pennywise was too large to fit the …
In the Houston housing project where he grew up, George Floyd was respected as a man who spoke from hard, but hardly extraordinary, experience. He had nothing remotely like the stature he has gained …