U.S. & World

The Department of Homeland Security says its immigrant detention centers are at capacity, housing about 47,600 individuals.

The Environmental Protection Agency said it has terminated grant agreements worth $20 billion issued by the Biden administration under a so-called green bank to finance climate-friendly projects.

A Waterbury woman is accused of holding her stepson captive for 20 years and providing little water and little food.

Harvey Weinstein’s #MeToo retrial next month will largely be an abridged version of the original, with one big addition: a charge based on an allegation from a woman who wasn’t a part of the first case. But at a key pretrial hearing Wednesday, the disgraced movie mogul’s lawyers cautioned that because Weinstein’s 2020 rape and sexual assault convic...

Asked if he feels responsible for so many people losing their jobs, Trump said, “Sure I do. I feel very badly … but many of them don’t work at all.”

Egg prices again reached a record high in February, as the bird flu continues to run rampant and Easter and Passover approach. But there may be light at the end of the tunnel.

All U.S. population growth in 2022-2023 happened because of immigration, not births — the first time that’s occurred since 1850, a migration think tank reported Wednesday.

Sudiksha Konanki, a 20-year-old student from the University of Pittsburgh, went missing while on spring break in the Dominican Republic earlier this month.

Massive layoffs hit the Education Department after President Trump vowed to close it down.

“They did not know that this was an actual fossil itself. Some were thinking that it was a replica,” Australian paleontologist Anthony Romilio said.

Think sugary cereals, frozen pizzas, chips, soda and ice cream tied to high rates of obesity and other disease.

Women stand to benefit disproportionately from the greatest generational wealth transfer in history, studies show.

The Department of Education distributes billions in federal money to colleges and schools and manages the federal student loan portfolio. Closing the department would mean redistributing each of those duties to another agency.