President Donald Trump on Wednesday confirmed that his CIA chief secretly met with Kim Jong Un in North Korea and said βa good relationship was formedβ heading into the adversariesβ anticipated summit.
The Cuban government on Wednesday selected 57-year-old First Vice President Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez as the sole candidate to succeed President Raul Castro in a transition aimed at ensuring that the countryβs single-party system outlasts the aging revolutionaries who created it.
A preliminary examination of the blown jet engine of the Southwest Airlines plane that set off a terrifying chain of events and left a businesswoman hanging half outside a shattered window showed evidence of βmetal fatigue,β according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
A stinking trainload of human waste from New York City is stranded in a tiny Alabama town, spreading a stench like a giant backed-up toilet β and the βpoop trainβ is just the latest example of the South being used as a dumping ground for other statesβ waste.
Barbara Bush, the snowy-haired first lady whose plainspoken manner and utter lack of pretense made her more popular at times than her husband, President George H.W. Bush, died Tuesday, a family spokesman said.
Americans are getting an extra day to file their taxes after key elements of the IRS website crashed on deadline day.
Starbucks, moving swiftly to confront a racially charged uproar over the arrest of two black men at one of its stores in Philadelphia, plans to close more than 8,000 U.S. stores for several hours next month to conduct racial-bias training for nearly 175,000 workers.
A Southwest Airlines jet apparently blew an engine at about 30,000 feet and got hit by shrapnel that smashed a window and damaged the fuselage Tuesday, killing a passenger and injuring seven others, authorities said.
Tax Day is finally here once more. If youβre getting a refund, lucky you. But if you owe the government money, you may be worried that you have to pay the amount due by the filing deadline of April 17 β even if you asked for an extension.
U.S. health officials say a closely watched medicine made from the marijuana plant significantly reduces seizures in children with severe forms of epilepsy and warrants approval in the country.
Starbucks wants to add training for store managers on βunconscious bias,β CEO Kevin Johnson said Monday, as activists held more protests at a Philadelphia store where two black men were arrested after employees said they were trespassing.
At $2.71, gas prices are at their most expensive point in nearly three years and continue to climb.
Syrian families living in Charlotte have spent years worrying about their families during the ongoing civil war.
A family spokesman says former first lady Barbara Bush is in βfailing healthβ and wonβt seek additional medical treatment.
Did you wake up in a panic realizing that today is April 15? Relax. Youβve got until Tuesday to file and pay your taxes without facing a penalty.
Gun rights supporters β many carrying rifles and ammunition β gathered at state capitols across the U.S. on Saturday to push back against efforts to pass stricter gun-control laws that they fear threaten their constitutional right to bear arms.
Allied missiles struck at the heart of the Syrian chemical weapons arsenal, aiming to punish the Assad government for a suspected poison gas attack against civilians and deter the possible future use of such banned weapons. Pentagon officials said the assault pummeled, but did not eliminate the Syrian program.
Hereβs some sobering news: A large international study says adults should average no more than one alcoholic drink per day, and that means drinking guidelines in many countries may be far too loose.
Tony Stewart and the parents of Kevin Ward Jr. have agreed to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family against the former NASCAR champion for his role in the death of their son.
The first large-scale, national study of transgender children, including some as young as 3, is poised to expand thanks to a five-year, $1 million grant awarded Thursday by the National Science Foundation to the professor leading the project.
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