A Palestinian student arrested during an interview about finalizing his U.S. citizenship is meeting with Vermont’s governor and lawmakers a week after a federal judge freed him from custody. …
Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature have voted to kill most of the top spending priorities of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers. The vote Thursday comes as both sides are negotiating a tax …
Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first U.S. pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church, previously led a Catholic religious order. Prevost, 69, who chose the name Pope Leo XIV, was formerly …
A leading aid group says that Israel’s ongoing blockade of humanitarian assistance for Gaza has forced it to shut down its community soup kitchens. World Central Kitchen said on Thursday that it …
Asian shares are rising moderately after a lackluster finish on Wall Street, with most shares ticking higher after the Federal Reserve left its main interest rate unchanged, as was widely expected. …
The World Video Game Hall of Fame has four new inductees. The Class of 2025 was enshrined Thursday in recognition of how they challenged players and changed the industry. The honorees are Defender, …
A Texas man associated with a neo-Nazi group has been convicted of posting threats to lynch and kill Nashville District Attorney General Glenn Funk. Sixty-year-old David Aaron Bloyed, of Frost, …
A pathologist hired by attorneys for death row inmates says a South Carolina man executed by firing squad was conscious and likely in extreme pain for as long as a minute. The autopsy results for …
A judge has declared a mistrial after the jury couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict in the second-degree murder trial of a Michigan police officer who shot Patrick Lyoya, a Black man, following a …
Average rate on a 30-year mortgage holds steady at 6.76%, Freddie Mac says.
President Donald Trump’s push to eliminate diversity initiatives on college campuses didn’t stop minority students at the University of Kentucky from staging their own celebration. Their event …
New experiments show eggs are less likely to crack when they fall on their side. It’s commonly thought that eggs are strongest at their ends because the arc-shaped bottom redirects the force of the …
Sue Bird is giving another assist to USA Basketball, becoming the managing director of the women’s national team. The five-time Olympic champion was named to the newly created position Thursday and …
India fired attack drones into Pakistan on Thursday, the Pakistani military said, while India accused its neighbor of attempting its own attack as tensions soared between the nuclear-armed rivals. …
Bill Gates says he will donate 99% of his remaining tech fortune to the Gates Foundation. Today, that would be worth an estimated $107 billion. He also announced the foundation will now close in …
Melinda French Gates says she and her ex-husband, Bill Gates, always intended for the foundation they started together to spend down all of its resources rather than to exist in perpetuity. The Gates …
Bill Gates is pledging 99% of his remaining fortune to the Gates Foundation, which will spend it all within 20 years. The funds will be delivered over time and will allow the foundation to spend …
In its first 25 years, the Gates Foundation became one of the world’s largest charitable foundations and one of the most powerful institutions in global health. The foundation was formed in 2000 by …
Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman was meeting recently with representatives from a teachers union when things quickly devolved. Fetterman began repeating himself, shouting and slamming his hands on a …
Human-caused climate change intensified deadly rainfall in Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas and other states in early April and made it more likely to occur. That's according to an analysis from the …