U.S. & World

The whereabouts of a tiger that was found briefly wandering a Houston neighborhood remained unknown on Wednesday as the Texas man who police allege owns the animal was released on bond.

A compound of tents to detain migrant children and families was evacuated for hours when struck by fierce winds in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, authorities said Wednesday.

The Supreme Court is considering whether to hear the case of a Black man who says he suffered discrimination because the racial slur was carved into the wall of a hospital elevator where he worked.

A transportation official says repairs to the Interstate 40 bridge linking Arkansas and Tennessee could take months after a crack was found in the span.

A Georgia judge is resuming a hearing on legal motions in the murder case of three men facing a fall trial in the slaying of Ahmaud Arbery.

Attorneys for three former Minneapolis officers awaiting trial in George Floyd’s death will be in court Thursday to argue pretrial motions.

Some of the countries that were most praised last year for controlling the coronavirus are lagging far behind in getting their populations vaccinated

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Tesla would suspend car purchases using bitcoin, wiping off billions of dollars of value from the cryptocurrency market.

Former White House counsel Don McGahn will answer questions in private from the House Judiciary Committee in an apparent resolution of a longstanding dispute over his testimony, according to a court document filed Wednesday evening.

A judge has rejected the National Rifle Association’s bankruptcy bid, blocking its plan to reincorporate in Texas. Now the gun rights group is back to fighting New York regulators in a lawsuit that threatens to put it out of business. A federal bankruptcy judge in Dallas dismissed the NRA’s case on Tuesday. He ruled that the organizatio...

A mother of five found stabbed to death on Mother’s Day was the daughter of a woman who also was stabbed to death 16 years ago.

A total of five $1 million prizes will be awarded.

The action comes as Colonial Pipeline continues to grapple with a crippling ransomware attack.

Women who were 30- to 39-years old accounted for the biggest risk group who developed rare blood clots following J&J’s Covid vaccine.

An 88-year-old artist looking to fill time during the pandemic has completed an entire year of elaborate “daily doodles.”

The U.S. budget deficit surged to a record of $1.9 trillion for the first seven months of this budget year

COVID-19 deaths in the United States have tumbled to an average of about 600 per day, the lowest level in 10 months

A Minnesota judge has found aggravating factors in the death of George Floyd

The Los Angeles County Fire Department planned to terminate the employment of two firefighters and suspend a third for allegedly taking graphic photos of the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash scene and sharing them with their wives and girlfriends, according to court documents filed this week.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday it recommends expanded usage of Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine for 12- to 15-year-old kids.

A ninth batch of federal stimulus checks has been sent, bringing the total number of payments to about 165 million, worth $388 billion.

Rising prices for a variety of commodities are contributing to a jump in prices at the consumer level

A California judge has dismissed a Twitter lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in which the social media company accused the Republican of using his office to retaliate for Twitter’s banning the account of former President Donald Trump.

The company said they are working to “solve this issue quickly.”

The White House said Wednesday that the Department of Transportation is now allowing Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia to use interstate highways to transport overweight loads of gasoline and other fuels under existing disaster declarations.

Republicans sought to shift the narrative on the violent Jan. 6 insurrection during a congressional hearing Wednesday, with some painting the Trump supporters who stormed the building as patriots who have been unfairly harassed, as Democrats clashed with the former Pentagon chief while drilling into the government’s unprepared response....

House Republicans ousted Rep. Liz Cheney from her post as the chamber’s No. 3 GOP leader on Wednesday, punishing her after she repeatedly rebuked former President Donald Trump for his false claims of election fraud and his role in fomenting the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

Under Kremlin orders, the U.S. Embassy has stopped employing Russians, forcing the embassy to cut its consular staff by 75% and limit many of its usual services

Veterinarians nationwide are dealing with a COVID-19 pet boom.

A potentially worrisome variant of the coronavirus detected in India may spread more easily.

The number of unaccompanied children encountered on the U.S. border with Mexico in April eased from an all-time high a month earlier, while more adults are coming without families

Israel is pressing ahead with a fierce military offensive in the Gaza Strip

Americans can begin applying for $50 off their internet bill on Wednesday as part of an emergency government program to keep people connected during the pandemic.

A group of more than 100 influential Republicans plans to release a call for reforms within the GOP alongside a threat to form a new party if change isn’t forthcoming, according to a person familiar with the effort.

A federal prosecutor in Tennessee says three soldiers have been charged in connection with the transfer of dozens of firearms to associates in Chicago.

A seven-month investigation by the Associated Press and the Oxford Internet Institute, a department at Oxford University, found that China’s rise on Twitter has been powered by an army of fake accounts that have retweeted Chinese diplomats and state media tens of thousands of times.

Rep. Liz Cheney is lashing out at leaders of her own Republican Party.

More than 1,000 gas stations in the Southeast reported running out of fuel, primarily because of what analysts say is unwarranted panic-buying among drivers, as the shutdown of a major pipeline by hackers entered its fifth day.

A lawsuit says workers from marginalized communities in India were lured to New Jersey and forced to work more than 12 hours per day at ultra-low wages to help build a Hindu temple.

A report says staff at the University of Michigan missed many opportunities to stop a doctor who committed sexual misconduct against hundreds of patients over decades at the school.

New data on anti-Asian hate incidents reveals some startling increases in reports this year, NBC News reports.

The selling intensified after the S&P 500 fell below Tuesday’s low, a level traders were watching closely because of the intraday rebound one day ago.

Police say a man who fatally shot six people at a Colorado birthday party before killing himself was upset after not being invited to the weekend gathering thrown by his girlfriend’s family.

A college baseball player from South Dakota whose prosthetic arm was stolen from his vehicle has gotten it back after it was found at a recycling plant.

President Donald Trump’s acting defense secretary during the Jan. 6 Capitol riots is defending his response to the attack.

U.S. employers posted a record number of available jobs in March, illustrating starkly the desperation of businesses seeking to find new workers as the economy expands

A federal judge has dismissed the National Rifle Association’s bankruptcy case

Fewer Americans are reluctant to get a COVID-19 vaccine than just a few months ago, but questions about side effects and how the shots were tested still hold some people back

The pause on J&J’s Covid vaccine due to a rare blood-clotting problem did not disrupt the U.S. vaccine rollout, Dr. Anthony Fauci told Congress on Tuesday.

A man accused of killing eight people in shootings at three Atlanta-area massage businesses has been indicted on murder charges in two counties

Police say a Dunkin’ store employee fatally punched a 77-year-old customer in Florida after the employee said the man used a racial slur against him.

A former nursing assistant has been sentenced to seven consecutive terms of life in prison for injecting seven elderly veterans with fatal doses of insulin

The ex-husband of a “Real Housewives of New Jersey” cast member has been charged in a new indictment with acting as an accomplice in a 2017 home invasion where the TV star’s current husband was beaten with a baseball bat and tied up. A Monmouth County grand jury returned the indictment against Thomas Manzo, 56, of Franklin Lakes, this week&#8...

President Joe Biden is meeting virtually with a bipartisan group of governors to share best practices for encouraging Americans to get vaccinated as the pace of shots nationally declines

Trainer Bob Baffert says Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit was treated with an antifungal ointment containing the steroid betamethasone that may have caused the horse to fail a postrace drug test

Two programs allow part-time workers to collect unemployment benefits. That aid would include a $300 weekly supplement offered by the American Rescue Plan.

Dr. Rochelle Walensky told CNBC that U.S. officials are “thinking ahead” in the event that vaccine-induced immunity against the coronavirus begins to wane.

An offshore wind project off Massachusetts that would create 800 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 400,000 homes, was approved by the federal government. The Vineyard Wind project, south of Martha’s Vineyard near Cape Cod, would be the first utility-scale wind power development in federal waters. The $2 billion project was approved Tu...

A 28-year-old woman posed as a student and snuck into a high school in Hialeah to try to promote her Instagram page, police said.

Five young undocumented migrants, including a 2-year-old and an infant, were by themselves when they were apprehended in South Texas at the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities said Monday. The oldest of the migrants, all of whom were girls from Honduras and Guatemala, was 7, Customs and Border Protection said in a statement. None needed medical attenti...

A cyberattack on a critical U.S. pipeline is sending ripple effects across the economy, highlighting cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the nation’s aging energy infrastructure

The cybercriminals who hacked into the Washington, D.C., police department say negotiations have reached a dead end. The hackers say the District offered to pay a ransom, but it wasn’t enough. They’re demanding more money or have threatened to release more private data. The group, who call themselves Babuk, hacked into the Metropolitan ...

Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard has rejected the United States Navy’s claim that Iranian speedboats maneuvered too close in the Strait of Hormuz and sparked a tense encounter in the already sensitive region.

Several children and a teacher were among the dead following a shooting at a Russian school on Tuesday, which left many others wounded.

Lawyers for relatives of a Black man fatally shot by North Carolina deputies say body camera videos show that he didn’t strike them with his car before they opened fire, contradicting a local prosecutor

Israel has stepped up attacks on the Gaza Strip, flattening a building used by Hamas and killing at least three militants

Republicans in the Senate are making an expansive case against sweeping voting and election legislation from Democrats

Three Georgia men are scheduled to make their first court appearance since being indicted on federal hate crime charges in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery.

The B.1.617 strain was reclassified as a “variant of concern” by the World Health Organization, indicating it has the “highest public health implications.”

China’s weak population growth is falling closer to zero, adding to strains on an aging society with a shrinking workforce as fewer couples have children

One hundred days since their takeover, Myanmar’s ruling generals maintain just the pretense of control over the country

Police in Colorado are investigating what led a gunman to open fire at a birthday party inside a trailer park home, killing six adults before he took his own life.

After a cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline, U.S. airlines and airports are scrambling to get fuel.

States are pushing the unemployed to return to work to help businesses large and small find the workers they need to emerge from the COVID-19 recession.

Florida detectives have cleared Palm Beach County prosecutors and sheriff’s officials of criminal wrongdoing in connection with their handling of wealthy and prominent sex offender Jeffrey Epstein more than a decade ago, reports released Monday show. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement said in its reports that it found no evidence that ...

A NASA spacecraft is headed back to Earth with rubble it collected from an asteroid nearly 200 million miles away.

The Capitol Police force was hurt by inadequate intelligence gathering ahead of the Jan. 6 siege at the U.S. Capitol.

The FDA granting use of the shot in younger age groups will allow middle school-aged students to get vaccinated before school starts this fall.

U.S. officials say a group of 13 armed speedboats of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard made “unsafe and unprofessional” high-speed maneuvers toward U.S. Navy vessels in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday

Amid growing pressure on the Hollywood Foreign Press Association from studios, stars and large swaths of the film industry, NBC said Monday that will not air the Golden Globes in 2022, putting in doubt the viability of one of Hollywood’s oldest and most-watched award shows. Criticism of the HFPA, which puts on the Globes and has been denounce...

A man whose tiger was found wandering around a Houston neighborhood Sunday night has been arrested, police say. The tiger’s whereabouts are still unknown.

Lafayette Square, the park across from the White House, has reopened to the public

The operator of a major U.S. pipeline hit by a cyberattack says it hopes to have service mostly restored by the end of the week

Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s technical lead for Covid-19, said the agency will provide more details in its situation report Tuesday.

Chipotle CEO Brian Niccol said the current labor market is among the most challenging he’s seen in his career in the restaurant industry.

Palestinian militants have launched dozens of rockets from Gaza and Israel unleashed new air strikes against them

This year’s graduating class of college seniors is poised for better prospects than were the 2020 graduates, who had the misfortune to graduate in the depths of the disastrous coronavirus recession

Groceries are one of biggest monthly expenses for most Americans, but there are simple (and sometimes obvious) ways to help trim costs.

At a time when few women became pilots, the Federal Aviation Administration credits Hazel Ying Lee as the first Chinese-American woman to fly for the military, blazing her own trail

Before you purchase a new car, it’s important to understand how much it will really cost you.

A fifth batch of $1,400 stimulus checks has been sent, bringing the total to about 159 million recipients or more than $376 billion.

Here’s how to use Coinbase to buy and sell cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, ethereum, litecoin and others.