The Nasdaq and S&P 500 closed lower Wednesday, dragged by tech stocks on nagging concerns about high-flying valuations, but falling crude prices boosted airlines and other travel stocks and the Dow finished higher.

France on Wednesday announced the first confirmed case of Ebola identified on its territory, a doctor who had flown back from the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is fighting a major outbreak.The case is the first of the deadly haemorrhagic fever identified outside the...

Primary election upsets in New York on Tuesday renewed debate among some Democrats and Jewish advocacy groups about the party's direction on Israel and its relationship with Jewish voters.

A federal judge on Wednesday permanently blocked key provisions of President Donald Trump's executive order on elections, including a requirement that individuals provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote.The ruling landed as Trump appeared to...

The Department of Justice and the state of Kansas have filed a proposed consent decree that would permanently bar Kansas from providing in-state tuition benefits to illegal immigrants in violation of federal law.The filing Wednesday would resolve a federal lawsuit...

A scuffed leather ball roughly the size of a small melon, hidden for more than four centuries inside the rafters of Stirling Castle, will share a Miami stadium Wednesday night with Vinicius Junior, Carlo Ancelotti and the Tartan Army.

Candidates who lost in the Texas U.S. Senate Republican and Democrat primaries could play a pivotal role in who wins the general election in November.

Dan Cox won Maryland's Republican gubernatorial primary Tuesday, securing the nomination to challenge Democrat Gov. Wes Moore in a rematch of their 2022 contest.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, holds a narrow lead over state Rep. James Talarico, a Democrat, in two surveys released this week, as Republican voters appear to be coalescing behind Paxton after a bruising primary that ended ...

Candidates endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani scored major victories Tuesday in Democrat primaries, with two of his endorsed candidates ousting incumbent U.S. House members.

An 18-year-old accused of killing two people and wounding a juvenile at a Northern California library may have been inspired by the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, authorities said Tuesday.

A federal judge in California vacated the Trump administration's nationwide policies expanding arrests at immigration courthouses and the duration for detaining noncitizens in short-term facilities, finding the actions ofImmigration and Customs Enforcement and another...

Most Americans want the United States to reach a deal with Iran and end the conflict as quickly as possible, according to a new poll that found broad support for diplomacy even as voters remain skeptical that any peace agreement will last.

“Today” show host Savannah Guthrie made an emotional appeal to viewers Tuesday to come forward with any information about her missing mother, a day after news organizations said a ransom note received months ago had indicated that she was dead.

President Trump will help present the FIFA World Cup trophy to the winning captain on July 19 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., FIFA President Gianni Infantino said Tuesday, marking a break in soccer's biggest event.

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson won the Republican gubernatorial runoff Tuesday, defeating Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette and positioning himself as the overwhelming favorite to become the state's next governor in November.

A former U.S. Olympian arrested after being accused of vandalizing the newly renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool says he plans to fight the charges.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday dismissed reports that Iran would not allow international inspectors access to its damaged nuclear sites, saying that if those reports were correct, he would cancel further negotiations with Tehran.

More than a year after the House approved the SAVE America Act, House and Senate Republicans are escalating pressure on the Senate to bring the voter ID measure to the floor.

A report detailing a highly unusual request for access to Eli Lilly's experimental obesity drug retatrutide has sparked speculation about whether President Donald Trump could be the mystery patient at the center of the application.