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From Sydney to Mumbai to Nairobi, communities around the world began welcoming 2025 with spectacular light shows, embraces and ice plunges.

A Virginia man was arrested after federal authorities found a cache of homemade explosive devices, some of which were marked as “lethal,” at his home, marking the largest seizure by number of finished explosive devices in FBI history, officials said.

A Colorado man spent New Year’s Eve behind bars, accused of bias crimes for allegedly trying to strangle a TV news reporter while saying, “This is Trump’s America now,” officials said.

The common stomach bug is highly contagious, spreads on surfaces and through the air, and people can catch it every year.

A looming TikTok ban could affect the millions of small businesses that use the short-video social media app to grow their business.

On New Year’s Eve, when most of us will be out celebrating the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025 with parties, champagne and the ball drop, the night will also be significant to another historical reason.

Authorities have released the identity of the sleeping woman burned to death inside a New York City subway train by a man who allegedly lit her on fire and stayed to watch the aftermath, officials said Tuesday.

The Quadrantid meteor shower will be the year’s first chance to see fireballs in the sky.

The Dartmouth men’s basketball team dropped its attempt to form a union on Tuesday, voluntarily ending a push to become the first college sports team to unionize.

Aaron Brown, a veteran television news anchor whose steady hand helped guide CNN viewers through the unfolding tragedy of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, has died. A family spokeswoman says Brown died Sunday of pneumonia in Washington, D.C., where he lived. He was 76. Brown’s first day on camera at CNN was Sept. 11, 2001, and his anchoring from a......

The Colorado teenager who lost a leg after she was bitten by a shark while on a diving trip in Belize is determined to return to the ocean after a painstaking recovery.

Avoiding overspending during the holidays requires planning ahead and budgeting, experts said. That means there are steps you can take now.

Looking into how your 2025 insurance plan covers your existing doctors and prescriptions can help fend off surprise bills later.

Funeral services honoring former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, will be held in Georgia and Washington, D.C., beginning Saturday, Jan. 4, and concluding Thursday, Jan. 9. The schedule includes a service at the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta; public viewings in Atlanta and Washington; a service at the U.S. Capitol; a nati...