U.S. & World

A sea lion attacked a man while he was swimming at Mission Beach on Friday night, officials said.

South Carolina has put inmate Freddie Owens to death in the state’s first execution in more than a decade.

Lawyers in Britain representing dozens of women say that Mohamed Al Fayed — the former boss of Harrods — was a “monster” who raped and sexually abused young women throughout his time at the helm of the world-renowned London department store.

Travis King, the U.S. soldier who ran across the Demilitarized Zone and into North Korea last year, was sentenced Friday to a prison term that amounts to the time he has already served.

Georgia election officials are requiring poll workers to tally the number of ballots by hand.

The Senate has the potential for history-making this fall. Two Black women could be elected to the chamber, a situation never seen before.

Residents of a tiny Appalachian town are struggling to cope with a shooting involving two of its most prominent citizens: a Kentucky judge who was gunned down in his courthouse chambers and the local sheriff charged with his murder.

Donald Trump is facing calls both from his allies and from within his own campaign to pull his endorsement from scandal-plagued North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson, according to four people familiar with the discussions. 

The first big update to U.S. methadone regulations in 20 years is poised to expand access to the life-saving drug starting next month. But experts say the changes could fall flat if states and methadone clinics fail to act.

Stephen Chase Randolph’s actions knocked out a Capitol police officer. He was identified by a facial recognition hit on his girlfriend’s Instagram page.

A college student allegedly scratched a racial slur onto another student’s body at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, officials said Thursday.

A quick-thinking title company owner was able to stop a fraudulent sale when it appeared the scammer was using A.I. technology to try to steal properties

Yooree Kim marched into a police station in Paris and told an officer she wanted to report a crime. Forty years ago, she said, she was kidnapped from the other side of the world, and the French government endorsed it.

The GOP-controlled House approved a resolution Friday that would overturn a new Biden administration rule on automobile emissions.