U.S. & World

Paris Hilton recently joined a list of stars who have grown their families with the help of a surrogate. “It’s an amazing gift,” Rebel Wilson has said. “The BEST gift!!”

The Whale Store, an unmanned outlet that recently opened near Tokyo, houses machines for whale sashimi, whale bacon, whale skin and whale steak, as well as canned whale meat at prices from 1,000 yen ($7.70) to 3,000 yen ($23).

U.S. Capitol Police said a man drove a truck onto the sidewalk outside the Library of Congress before claiming he had a bomb inside.

A timeline of events in the Tyre Nichols case, which sparked state and federal investigations into police brutality and led to murder and other charges against the five officers involved in his arrest this month

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt tells reporters he is baffled over how $12.7 million of his money has gone missing from a local private investment firm that authorities are investigating as part of a massive fraud.

Tyre Nichols was killed by police in Memphis after they pulled him over Jan. 7.

Julian Khater, a New Jersey man who joined a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced Friday to more than six years in prison for using pepper spray to assault police officers — including Brian Sicknick, who died a day after the siege

Tyre Nichols can be seen being pulled out of his car by police officers, pepper sprayed, kicked and hit with both fists and batons in four videos released Friday by the Memphis Police Department. Nichols died three days after the violent encounter on Jan. 7, and five officers have been charged with his murder. The videos released by the Memphis&#82...

A GOP bill approved Friday would require the government to offset any non-emergency withdrawals from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve with new drilling on public lands and oceans.

Like Szechuan Sauce, the Big N’ Tasty and the McRib, straws at McDonald’s might soon become a relic of fast-food chain’s past.

A Tennessee animal center stepped in to help bring the dog back to her family.

Two hikers stranded in a snowy, remote part of Zion National Park in Utah were hoisted into a hovering helicopter sent to rescue them on Saturday.

Multiple pileups near the Illinois-Wisconsin border Friday, including one involving up to 50 vehicles, shut down multiple major roadways ahead of the afternoon rush hour and as bands of snow made their way across the area.