U.S. & World

Joan Payden, the 92-year-old CEO of money management firm Payden & Rygel, took a decades-long path to success. Now she’s one of America’s richest self-made women.

Israel has carried out its largest hostage rescue operation since the war with Hamas began on Oct. 7.

Officials across the country have started cracking down on delivery companies by issuing warning letters, seizing illegally registered or driven vehicles, and launching special street patrols to enforce speed limits.

The total global volume of fish, shrimp, clams and other aquatic animals that are harvested by farming has topped the amount fished in the wild from the world’s waters for the first time ever, the United Nations reported Friday.

A jury has convicted five Minnesota residents and acquitted two others in a scheme to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic to steal more than $40 million from a program meant to feed children.

One person was hurt and several homes and cars damaged after a driver allegedly fell asleep at the wheel and veered off a busy roadway in Ogden, Utah, according to NBC affiliate KSL.

After 41 years and over 8,000 episodes, Pat Sajak made his final turn as the renowned host of “Wheel of Fortune” on Friday.

Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90.

Cobalt Sovereign, 17, alleged a student assaulted her while she was leaving the men’s bathroom at her high school in Minnetonka, Minnesota.

Howard University took back an honorary degree given to hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has been assaulted by a man on a square in the capital of Copenhagen.

Both incidents occurred in Walton County and not near a boat, but officials are unclear how far the attacks happened from the land.

Weeks after Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction was overturned in New York, the disgraced film mogul filed an appeal to overturn a separate rape and sexual assault conviction in California.