U.S. & World

Candy corn is “a very emotional candy,” according to a food flavor specialist.

Thai police say a resident of a high-rise condominium near Bangkok cut the support rope for two painters, apparently angry she wasn’t told they would be doing work, and left them hanging above the 26th floor until a couple rescued them

A new study found a cheap antidepressant reduced the need for hospitalization among high-risk adults with COVID-19.

The state’s attorney general could sue Favre if he doesn’t pay interest owed on the amount.

Native American groups pushed back Wednesday against Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred’s claim that Indigenous communities support the Atlanta Braves’ tomahawk chop.

Texans are stepping up like never before to help teachers. In the Northwest ISD it means many donations, and opening the doors to a shop for teachers to come and cross items off their wish list.

A federal jury has determined that The GEO Group must pay minimum wage — rather than $1 a day — to immigration detainees who perform tasks like cooking and cleaning at its for-profit detention center in Washington state

U.S. immigration authorities will limit arrests at schools, hospitals and other so-called protected areas under new guidelines issued by the Department of Homeland Security.

The City of LA is kicking off a new initiative that will provide thousands of dollars in cash and help 3,000 Angelenos in need and affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Just one day after the Chicago Blackhawks released the findings of the Jenner & Block investigation into allegations of sexual assault against former video coach Brad Aldrich, the player who brought the allegations forward will publicly reveal his identity on Wednesday evening.

Starbucks will raise wages for its U.S. baristas at least twice in 2022, bringing its pay floor to $15 an hour by the summer.

A growing migrant caravan has filled the town square here after knocking off another 13 miles of its trek across southern Mexico

The Cleveland Guardians baseball team reportedly was sued by a roller derby team over the rights to the Guardians name.

A U.S. House report says at least 59,000 meatpacking workers became ill with COVID-19 and 269 workers died when the virus tore through the industry last year

Pennsylvania prosecutors have dropped a felony theft charge against a man who underpaid for a soda by 43 cents.

Four years after the “Greatest Show On Earth” shut down, officials are planning to bring back the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus — without animal acts.

China says participants in next year’s Winter Olympics will be strictly isolated from the general population and could face expulsion for violating COVID-19 restrictions.

Former President Donald Trump’s lawsuit to get his Twitter account restored must be heard in a California court, not a Florida one, under a user agreement covering everyone on the social media platform, a federal judge ruled.

The pandemic has made clear what many experts had long warned: The absence of reliable and affordable child care limits the jobs people can accept, makes it harder to climb the corporate ladder and ultimately restricts the ability of the broader economy to grow

The U.S. government has asked Britain’s High Court to overturn a judge’s decision that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be sent to the United States to face espionage charges.

SpaceX is resolving toilet spills in its capsules before it launches another crew for NASA

The United States has issued its first passport with an “X” gender designation — a milestone in the recognition of the rights of people who don’t identify as male or female

Shiba inu, dubbed the “dogecoin killer” by its supporters, hit an all-time high on Wednesday. Here’s what you should know.

A grand jury has returned an indictment against two law enforcement officers in the 2016 death of a man shot 76 times during an attempted fugitive arrest

Starting Monday, Uber drivers can rent Teslas through Hertz’s rental program in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego and Washington, D.C.

Contra Costa County health officials on Tuesday shut down an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in Pleasant Hill for violating the county’s vaccine mandate on indoor dining, according to a county statement. It is the second Bay Area In-N-Out restaurant to be closed for COVID-19 health violations.

“If you’re overdue according to your itinerary, and you start getting repeated calls from an unknown number, please answer the phone,” officials said.

Iran’s president is saying that a cyberattack that shut down gas stations across the nation aimed to get “people angry by creating disorder and disruption.”

A Florida woman said she feared for her life when U.S. Marshals entered her home while she was holding her infant daughter – only later to realize they were at the wrong home. Kada Staples told NBC affiliate WFLA-TV she looked at her Ring App and saw armed men outside her Bradenton apartment who ordered her to come out, saying…

Students in Rhode Island are asking a federal appeals court to affirm that public school students have a constitutional right to a civics education

Boise’s police chief said Tuesday that the suspected shooter was known to both police and mall security, although he didn’t appear to have an arrest record in the city.

U.S. regulators are expelling a unit of China Telecom Ltd

Her crowning moment was scoring three goals in the opening 16 minutes of the U.S. victory over Japan in the 2015 Women’s World Cup final.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says the league is not going to issue a report on its 10-month investigation into allegations the Washington Football Team engaged in harassment and abuse

The Michigan Senate on Tuesday passed legislation that would eliminate the so-called “tampon tax” on menstrual products, sending it to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer who is expected to sign it into law.

A woman and her boyfriend have been arrested in the death of the woman’s 8-year-old son, whose skeletal remains were found inside a Houston-area apartment with three surviving but apparently abandoned siblings

A federal judge in Texas denied a petition by Southwest Airlines pilots’ union that sought to block the company’s enforcement of a federal vaccine mandate.

A Brazilian Senate committee has recommended that President Jair Bolsonaro face a series of criminal indictments for actions and omissions related to the world’s second-highest COVID-19 death toll

Experts predict a tremendous legal fallout after Alec Baldwin pulled the trigger on a prop gun while filming “Rust” in New Mexico and unwittingly killed a cinematographer and injured a director

Spanx founder Sara Blakely surprised her employees with plane tickets to anywhere in the world and $10,000 after a deal valued the company at $1.2 billion.

The Senate has confirmed two prominent anti-Trump Republicans to serve in the Biden administration

Former Weather Underground radical David Gilbert has been granted parole after decades in prison for a fatal 1981 Brink’s robbery north of New York City

A 69-year-old Las Vegas woman is accused of defrauding the Social Security Administration of over $120,000 after she allegedly dismembered her dead husband’s body and threw his remains in the trash

A powerful storm that drenched the West Coast with record-breaking rainfall and hurricane-force winds triggered landslides, flooded roads and left two people dead in Washington State. It also resurrected one of California’s most iconic natural features — Yosemite Falls. Before a “bomb cyclone” slammed into the state Sunday, dr...

President Joe Biden is framing the Virginia governor’s race as a repudiation of his predecessor, tying the Republican candidate to former President Donald Trump

At this time last year, ocean freight rates from China to the U.S. West Coast were $3,847 per 40-foot container. Now, the same container will cost $17,377 to ship.

A lawyer for a Guantanamo Bay detainee says the Supreme Court should wait to decide a case involving his client until it’s clear what the Biden administration will let the man say about his torture abroad by the CIA.

Fort Worth could soon be home to the National Juneteenth Museum, preserving the history of the national holiday and furthering historical education about oppression and freedom.

Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth II has cancelled her planned engagement at the U.N. climate conference, accepting doctors’ advice to rest

To address the renters’ crisis triggered by the Covid pandemic, Congress allocated $45 billion in aid. Six months later, most of that money is still available.

Law enforcement officials in the U.S. and Europe have arrested 150 people and seized more than $31 million in an international drug trafficking investigation stemming from sales on the darknet

A prosecutor has filed a motion to clear the names of four Black men who were wrongly accused of raping a white woman more than seven decades ago.

Here are game times, TV schedules, stadium info and more details on this week’s games.

Ordinary Americans and the nation’s airlines are combining to donate miles and cash to help Afghan refugees resettle in the United States

Anti-Asian hate crimes increased more than 73 percent in 2020, according to newly corrected FBI data. It’s a disproportionate uptick compared to hate crimes in general, which rose 13 percent.

With Brian Laundrie’s autopsy report inconclusive, and the DNA match to Gabby Petito’s body unclear, many wonder if the notebook found near his remains could contain a suicide note that may hold the answers.

The U.S. moved a step closer to expanding COVID-19 vaccinations for millions more children as a panel of government advisers on Tuesday endorsed kid-size doses of Pfizer’s shots for 5- to 11-year-olds.

Labor Department data shows workers in customer-facing roles are quitting at higher rates than in other industries.

Carli Lloyd is retiring from soccer after a decorated career that includes two Women’s World Cup titles and a pair of Olympic gold medals.

A combination of supply constraints and state policies and taxes drive up gasoline prices in places like California.

A former spokesperson for Liberty University is suing the evangelical Virginia school after being fired, alleging in a lawsuit filed Monday that his termination came in retaliation for voicing concerns that sexual misconduct accusations were mishandled.

A White House analysis in September indicated the country’s 400 wealthiest families paid an average federal income tax rate of 8.2% between 2010 and 2018.

A Seoul hospital says former South Korean President Roh Tae-woo has died

Japanese Princess Mako says she will “walk together” in a new life with her husband after they married without a celebration in a union that has split public opinion

Senators have put executives of YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat on the defensive

Hollywood professionals say they’re baffled by the circumstances of the New Mexico movie-set shooting that left a cinematographer dead, adding that production crews have stepped up safety measures.

President Joe Biden’s big domestic policy bill is now half its original size and being pulled apart and reconfigured as Democrats edge closer to satisfying their most reluctant lawmakers

For the ranking, U.S. News analyzed the data of 1,750 schools from 90 countries across 13 different variables.

Adorned with multiple no trespassing signs, a New Jersey home boasts multiple Confederate flags in addition to costumed ghosts — one of which seems to resemble a haunting image of a Ku Klux Klan member in robes.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has “deferred” its requests for several dozen pages of Trump administration records at the White House’s urging

Federal health officials are extending until mid-January its rules that cruise ships must follow to prevent COVID-19 outbreaks.

Police in Boise, Idaho, say two people were killed and four injured in a shooting at a shopping mall

The Paradise football team was honored by the San Francisco 49ers as it continues to rebuild nearly 3 years after California’s deadliest wildfire.

The LaSalle County Coroner on Monday released the cause of death for Jelani Day, the Illinois State University graduate student who was found dead in the Illinois River in September just days after he was reported missing.

Tumbling COVID-19 case counts have some schools around the U.S. considering relaxing their mask rules, but deaths nationally have been ticking up over the past few weeks.

There are “no immediate plans” to tap into emergency reserves or limit energy exports outside the United States, the Energy Department told CNBC.

U.S. officials say they believe Iran was behind the drone attack last week at the military outpost in southern Syria where American troops are based

Fifty universities were added to the list since last year, making it the longest it has been in its six-year history.

The assistant director who handed Alec Baldwin the gun that killed a cinematographer last week had been fired from a previous job after a gun went off on a set and wounded a member of the film crew.

A U.S. court order says the offspring of hippos once owned by Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar can be recognized as people with legal rights in the U.S. The case involves a lawsuit against the Colombian government over whether to kill or sterilize the hippos whose numbers are growing at a fast pace

President Joe Biden says he feels “very positive about reaching a deal on his big domestic policy bill.

The Biden administration is detailing its new international COVID-19 air travel polices for most foreign travelers to the U.S.

The Facebook Papers project represents a unique collaboration among 17 American news organizations, including The Associated Press

Another previously unnamed victim of infamous serial killer John Wayne Gacy has been identified, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office announced Monday.

Jury selection has begun at a civil trial in Charlottesville, Virginia to determine whether white nationalists who planned the so-called “Unite the Right” rally will be held responsible for the violence that erupted

Moderna says its low-dose COVID-19 vaccine is safe and appears to work in 6- to 11-year-olds.

A sheriff in Texas says the skeletal remains of a child and three abandoned children have been found in an apartment.

Amid fallout from the Facebook Papers showing its failure to address the harms its social network has created around the world, Facebook on Monday reported higher profit for the latest quarter, buoyed by strong advertising revenue

Sudan’s military has seized power, dissolving the transitional government hours after troops arrested the prime minister and other officials

A crew member says she has raised safety concerns in the past about the assistant director who authorities say unwittingly handed actor Alec Baldwin the prop gun that killed a cinematographer on a film set.

Across Northern California, crews worked Monday to clear streets of toppled trees and branches and to clean gutters clogged by debris carried by rainwater from a massive storm that caused flooding and rock slides, and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands.

Hours before actor Alec Baldwin fired a fatal gunshot from a prop gun that he had been told was safe, seven camera crew members for the movie he was filming walked off the job to protest conditions and production issues that included safety concerns.