U.S. stocks rose near their records after a couple buyout announcements helped lift the market

Republican Sen_ Thom Tillis says in a new book that his deciding vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in January 2025 is the “biggest regret of my career.”

The Supreme Court is considering whether local governments can sue oil and gas companies for climate change costs

Dennis Hastert, who served as House speaker longer than any other Republican but later was sent to prison in a hush-money case, has died

The Nobel Prize in medicine has been awarded to three scientists whose work led to a tool that uses light to help unravel how the brain works

A 48-year-old woman from Chicago has been charged with first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of a 7-year-old girl

Washington Capitals captain and career goal-scoring record holder Alex Ovechkin said this will be his final season in the NHL

A federal appeals court has heard arguments over whether a judge had the authority to restore billions of dollars in funding that the Trump administration cut from Harvard University

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will spend Monday trying to shake up his campaign after losing the first round of national elections to Flávio Bolsonaro