In a significant move reflecting the financial challenges faced by the seafood restaurant industry, Red Lobster announced Tuesday it's closing several of its locations across the country.
The number of Americans dying from drug overdoses fell last year for the first time since 2018, according to provisional federal estimates released Wednesday.
The Trump campaign on Tuesday said President Biden's plan to quadruple tariffs on electric vehicles and other clean energy goods imported from China is part of a misguided effort to do away with gas-powered electric vehicles.
The countdown is on for the 108th running of the Indianapolis 500, when a field of 33 cars will cross the famed yard of bricks at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Memorial Day weekend for what is regarded as "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing."
Arlington, Virginia residents witnessed a black bear wandering Monday, days after denizens of the Brookland neighborhood in the District of Columbia saw a juvenile male black bear.
White-collar workers in Unionen launched a sympathy strike against Tesla on Tuesday in the most significant expansion of the strike in months.
Having served on three Manhattan juries, I would not be surprised if the 12 men and women hearing New York v. Donald J. Trump acquit him of all charges.
Eight watches belonging to auto racing icon Michael Schumacher sold Tuesday for nearly 4 million Swiss francs ($4.4 million) at a Geneva auction.
Democrats are so scared of their own fractured base that portions of the Democratic National Convention will go online in August.
GOP lawmakers in the House and Senate clinched the top spot in a new list of the most bipartisan members of Congress, but Republicans also came in dead last.
A new rule proposed by the Biden Department of Health and Human Services intends to increase access to kidney transplants for all people with end-stage renal disease by reducing racial disparities among Black patients.
A New York appeals court on Tuesday upheld the gag order against former President Donald Trump in his criminal hush money trial.
King Charles III has unveiled the first portrait of the monarch completed since he assumed the throne, a vivid image that depicts him in the bright red uniform of the Welsh Guards against a background of similar hues.
The Liberian government is mounting a sustained campaign against corruption to win trust and new international investments, whether they come from the U.S. or China, Liberian President Joseph Boakai said in an interview.
Sparks flew between two New York Democrats during a congressional primary debate Monday that focused on Israel's war with Hamas.
President Biden on Tuesday defended his decision to levy sweeping tariffs on Chinese goods, saying the move protects workers, while business groups argue it will hurt consumers already reeling from sky-high inflation.
New video released by the Port of Seattle shows a fire breaking out in the nose of a parked Delta Air Lines plane at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, forcing passengers and crew to escape using emergency slides.
Michael Cohen, former President Donald Trump's onetime fixer and lawyer, testified Tuesday his world "turned upside down" when the FBI raided his hotel room and his under-construction apartment in April 2018, triggering a breakup with his famous boss.
Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert was fined $75,000 by the NBA on Tuesday for another "inappropriate and unprofessional gesture" that suggested a lack of integrity with the league and its game officials.
The Kremlin's top diplomat in the U.S. on Tuesday denounced President Biden's decision this week to ban the importation from Russia of enriched uranium, the primary fuel used in nuclear power plants.
CNN executive Sam Feist has been named CEO of C-SPAN, the board of directors of the nonprofit public affairs network announced on Tuesday.
Call it the cost of efficiency. Most states have boosted gas taxes or tied them to inflation to recoup billions of dollars of highway fund revenues lost over the past decade to fuel-efficient, hybrid and electric automobiles.
Melinda French Gates is already one of the biggest philanthropic supporters of gender equity in the United States and is now poised to put another $12.5 billion toward intractable problems like closing the gender pay gap and increasing women's political participation, her grantees hope.
The U.S. government has a specialized plane loaded with advanced sensors that officials brag is always ready to deploy within an hour of any kind of chemical disaster. But the plane didn't fly over eastern Ohio until four days after the disastrous Norfolk Southern derailment there last year.
Nobel laureate Alice Munro, the Canadian literary giant who became one of the world's most esteemed contemporary authors and one of history's most honored short story writers, has died at age 92.