A SWAT team sniper killed a bank hostage-taker armed with a knife, sheriff says
A deputy shot and killed a man Tuesday after he took people hostage and claimed to have a bomb at a Florida bank, authorities said.
A deputy shot and killed a man Tuesday after he took people hostage and claimed to have a bomb at a Florida bank, authorities said.
Sebastian Pinera, the two-time former president of Chile who faced social upheaval followed by a pandemic in his second term, died Tuesday in a helicopter crash. He was 74.
King Charles III's cancer diagnosis heaps more pressure on the British monarchy, which is still evolving after the 70-year reign of the late Queen Elizabeth II.
One of the wettest storms in Southern California history unleashed nearly 400 mudslides in the Los Angeles area after dumping more than half of the city's seasonal rainfall in just two days, and officials warned Tuesday that the threat hadn't passed yet.
Gov. Josh Shapiro's second budget proposes significant increases to education and economic development and would regulate adult-use marijuana, while leaning heavily on Pennsylvania's flush reserves to underwrite his vision.
Bolts that helped secure a panel to the frame of a Boeing 737 Max 9 were missing before the panel blew off the Alaska Airlines plane last month, according to accident investigators.
North Carolina's top insurance regulator has denied an industry request to raise homeowners' insurance premiums by an average of 42% - and to almost double them in parts of coastal counties - saying Tuesday that "almost nobody" who weighed in agreed with the proposed increase.
The IRS is poised to take in hundreds of billions of dollars more in overdue and unpaid taxes than previously anticipated, according to new analysis released Tuesday by the Treasury Department and the IRS.
Georgia's Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would revive a new commission that some Democrats say is aimed at disrupting Fulton County District Fani Willis' prosecution of former President Donald Trump.
Weeks of negotiations to form a new ruling coalition in the Netherlands led by anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders appeared to end fruitlessly Tuesday as one of the four party leaders involved in the talks walked out without an agreement.
The Washington state Senate unanimously approved legislation Tuesday that would ban police from hog-tying suspects, a restraint technique that has long drawn concern due to the risk of suffocation.
A South African court on Tuesday upheld a ban on leaders of a boisterous opposition party from attending a speech this week by President Cyril Ramaphosa opening the new parliamentary session after they were sanctioned for disrupting the event a year ago.
Following outages caused by a cyberattack last week, the phones, email and electronic systems at Chicago's Lurie Children's Hospital remained down into this week.
The small White Mountains town of Littleton, New Hampshire has found itself at the heart of a divisive battle over LGBTQ representation and community values.
A congressional panel is giving fresh scrutiny to China's quest for teleportation technology, studying the communist country's use of new quantum tools that can transfer information from one place to another without physically moving the information itself.
Illegal immigration through the U.S.-Mexican border is at an all-time high, straining public resources and fueling political tension in the United States.
Unless your brain filters out news about popular science, you've heard that researchers have detected the tiniest particles of plastic ever found in the world around us.
Actor Jussie Smollett has asked the Illinois Supreme Court to intervene in his yearslong legal battle stemming from charges that he staged a racist, homophobic attack against himself in 2019 and lied about it to Chicago police.
A pair of California lawmakers introduced a bipartisan bill on Tuesday to allow people 21 and older to consume psychedelic mushrooms under professional supervision as part of an agenda to tackle the state's mental health and substance use crises.
Beef prices could rise to new highs, a farm advocacy group found in an analysis of federal data.
American gun owners learned to look to the NRA and Wayne LaPierre for leadership in defending their rights.
Low military recruitment and retention severely threatens our ability to protect our nation's interests at home and abroad.
Sen. Tim Scott said his aim is to help former President Donald Trump win the White House rather than worrying about becoming vice president after Mr. Trump mentioned his name as a possibility.
Fellow country artists and fans react to the death of singer-songwriter Toby Keith, who died Monday at 62.
One of the enduring mysteries of the cryptocurrency industry took center stage Tuesday in a London court where a trial could finally settle the debate over the identity of bitcoin's founder.