U.S. & World

The Brooklyn facility has been described as “hell on earth” and an “ongoing tragedy.” In recent years, its conditions have been so poor that some judges have refused to send people there.

The boy’s father said he was pinned beneath the 200-pound bruin when his son, Owen, jumped into action. Here’s what happened next.

Iranian hackers sought to interest President Joe Biden’s campaign in information stolen from rival Donald Trump’s campaign, sending unsolicited emails to people connected to the Democratic president in an effort to interfere in the 2024 election, the FBI and other federal agencies said Wednesday.

A longtime CIA officer who drugged, photographed and sexually assaulted more than two dozen women in postings around the world was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison Wednesday

A second judge has refused to grant bail to Sean “Diddy” Combs after the disgraced entertainment star’s lawyers had requested he be allowed to await his sex trafficking trial at his luxury home on an island near Miami Beach, rather than a grim federal jail in Brooklyn.

“Parents and teachers are pretty much out of the loop, so that young people are using AI platforms with virtually no guidance,” says Jim Steyer of Common Sense Media.

The decision comes just two days after the union’s leaders met with Vice President Kamala Harris and months after they met with former President Donald Trump.

Lawmakers hammered a handful of the roughly 500,000 nails that will hold the stage together.

A woman who became an abortion rights advocate after she was raped by her stepfather as a child tells her story in a new Kamala Harris campaign ad.

The House on Wednesday rejected Speaker Mike Johnson’s proposal.

A new mini-moon — referred to scientifically as 2024 PT5 — is set to make a two-month orbit around the Earth this fall. Here’s what you need to know about the rare occurrence.

Americans can now renew their passports online, bypassing a cumbersome mail-in paper application process that often caused delays. The State Department announced Wednesday that its online passport renewal system is now fully operational. It’s available to adult passport holders whose passport has expired within the past five years or will exp...

The first rate cut in years will affect many types of consumer products. Here’s what it means for credit cards, mortgage rates, auto loans and savings accounts.

Determined to thwart the automating of their jobs, about 45,000 dockworkers along the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts are threatening to strike on Oct. 1, a move that would shut down ports that handle about half the nation’s cargo from ships.