A fire on the roof of a 44-story luxury apartment building sent plumes of dark smoke into the New York City skyline. Officials say the fire in the Hudson Yards ...

Democrat Janelle Bynum has flipped Oregon’s 5th Congressional District. The U.S. House race was one of the country’s most competitive and viewed by The Cook Political Report as a toss ...

Two of the three striking teacher unions in Massachusetts face fines for refusing to return to the classroom. Judges have imposed fines of $50,000 a day for the unions in ...

Forecasters say Tropical Storm Sara has formed in the Caribbean Sea and was expected to cause life-threatening flash flooding and mudslides across portions of Central America, including Honduras. The ...

The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones' Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes more than ...

U.S. stocks are drifting as the market’s big burst following Donald Trump’s election continues to cool. The S&P 500 was edging down by 0.1% in midday trading Thursday, but still ...

California is seeing its share of bear break-ins. Now it’s seen a fake one — someone in a bear costumer rummaging through luxury cars. In what it’s dubbed “Operation Bear ...

ATLANTA — Fulton County is violating the civil rights of the people housed at the county jail by allowing “abhorrent, unconstitutional” conditions at the Rice Street facility in Atlanta, according ...

The Democrat looking to unseat an incumbent Republican in a close Iowa congressional race has asked for a recount. Democrat Christina Bohannan is requesting the recount in her bid against ...

Americans are fed up with the price of food, and many are looking to President-elect Donald Trump to lower their grocery bills. Trump often railed on the campaign trail against ...

When composer Mason Bates approached Michael Chabon about turning his novel “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” into an opera, he said the writer told him frankly that “opera ...