It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and ...

The trade disputes involving global economic powerhouses such as the U.S. and China are being felt even in such distinctly local places as your regional amusement park. Families ...

Sam Cooper had just trekked 7 miles (11 kilometers) through a rain-sodden stretch of the Appalachian Trail when he sat down ...

The man suspected of killing a Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another crawled to officers in surrender Sunday after they ...

A wave of protests swept across Wichita on Saturday, as groups on all sides of the political spectrum took to the streets to ...

At least two people died and 32 others were injured after an iron bridge over a river collapsed on Sunday at a popular tourist destination in India’s western Maharashtra state, ...

A fire inside a Manhattan Walmart Friday afternoon forced the store to evacuate and has sparked an ongoing arson investigation.

Officials in Ireland began work Monday to excavate the site of a former church-run home for unmarried women and their babies to identify the remains of some 800 infants and young ...

Private prison operators are marketing their shuttered lockups to federal immigration officials as President Donald Trump ...

Gaza’s Health Ministry says 38 Palestinians have been killed in new shootings in areas of food distribution centers in the ...

Gjert Ingebrigtsen, the father of Norwegian track star Jakob Ingebrigtsen, was convicted Monday of assaulting his daughter and handed a suspended prison sentence. A court ...