One in five households acquired a pet during the coronavirus pandemic, according to data from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA). However, many shelters are now seeing more pets being returned. The puppy was adopted during...
Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who was shot at and endured beatings and jail while leading Black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and later helped improve minority education in math, has died. Moses started his...
Former Sen. Barbara Boxer was attacked and robbed of her cell phone Monday while in Northern California, according to a Twitter post from her account. Boxer was in Oakland's Jack London Square neighborhood when someone pushed her in the back and took her ph...
The California sheriff's deputy who was killed while approaching a home following a chaotic standoff that also ended with the death of the gunman, his two sons and their mother was officially identified Monday as a former Marine who served in Afghanistan an...
A bitter divorce between a top New York City spine surgeon and his beauty-queen wife was quickly settled Monday — after he made tawdry accusations in court papers that claim she was moonlighting as a high-priced call girl. Hospital for Special Surgery Dr. H...
A sea of pro-democracy supporters descended upon the Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C., Monday afternoon to demand an end to the communist dictatorship that has isolated the island nation from the United States for most of the last 62 years. The crowd, drap...
A sea of pro-democracy supporters descended upon the Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C., Monday afternoon to demand an end to the communist dictatorship that has isolated the island nation from the United States for most of the last 62 years. The crowd, drap...
A gunman who killed one person and shot at least two others following an argument at a party in Fort Worth, Texas was beaten to death with a brick, authorities said Monday. The violence began just before 1 a.m. at the 5600 block of Shiloh Drive when a party...
McKirchy, who has previously denied injuring the boy, has waived extradition, the Broward State Attorney's Office said. "This case was presented to the grand jury, which determined that this was a homicide." McKirchy told The Miami Herald in 1985 she was in...
The grandson of late evangelist Billy Graham is hospitalized in critical condition with COVID-19, relatives said. Jonathan Lotz, who reportedly worked with his grandfather from 1994 through 2002, was in an ICU at an undisclosed hospital Sunday, according to...
Officials with Chicago's police union and the city have reached a tentative agreement on a new eight-year contract that would give officers a pay raise and would expand on some accountability reforms following months of tense negotiations as both sides publ...
The defense rested without calling any witnesses Monday in the murder trial of a man accused of killing a South Carolina college student who mistakenly got into what she thought was her Uber ride. The judge sent the jury home for the day, scheduling closing...
The final victim of the condo building collapse in Florida has been identified, a relative said Monday, more than a month after the middle-of-the-night catastrophe that ultimately claimed 98 lives. Estelle Hedaya, an outgoing 54-year-old with a love of trav...
Texas firefighters rescued eight teens from the top of a New Mexico roller coaster after getting stuck for two hours on Saturday night. The West Valley Fire Department in Texas responded to a call for help at the Western Playland Amusement Park in Sunland P...
The common denominator: They tried homeschooling on what they thought was a temporary basis and found it beneficial to their children. The parents in one of those households, Arlena and Robert Brown of Austin, Texas, had three children in elementary school...
A Texas man opened fire at a youth soccer tournament and killed his ex-wife and her boyfriend on Sunday, then later killed himself. The suspect arrived at the Harris County tournament around 10 a.m. and argued with his ex-wife in the parking lot near Almeda...
Police in New York City on Monday were still searching for at least three suspects captured in footage brutally beating an off-duty firefighter who was walking his dog through a park in his Queens neighborhood. Scores of teens descended on Juniper Valley Pa...
California will require state employees and all health care workers to show proof of a COVID-19 vaccination or get tested weekly, tightening restrictions in an effort to slow rising coronavirus infections in the nation’s most populous state, mostly among th...
LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 07: A visual representation of the digital Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin on December 07, 2017 in London, England. Cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Lightcoin have seen unprecedented growth in 2017, despite remaining extr...
Biden addressed the combination of drought, heat and wildfires currently impacting the western portion of the U.S. during his remarks. Here's whyPro-Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol following a rally with President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021 in...