U.S. & World

The European climate service Copernicus says Earth just sweltered to its hottest summer on record. That makes it even more likely that this year will end up as the warmest humanity has measured.

Police in the Denver suburb of Aurora say a Venezuela street gang with a small presence in the city has not taken over a rundown apartment complex.

Hunter Biden’s sudden guilty plea Thursday to tax charges was preceded by vigorous objections from prosecutors when his lawyer said he was willing to give up a trial and enter what’s known as an Alford plea.

Beacon, the golden retriever therapy dog for the U.S. Olympic gymnastics team, has been hospitalized.

While the U.S. Border Patrol has arrested tens of thousands of Chinese at the U.S.-Mexico border over the past year, thousands are making Mexico their final destination.

The father of the teenager accused of opening fire at a Georgia high school, killing four people and wounding nine, has been arrested on various charges including second-degree murder, authorities said Thursday.

In a report to the White House, the watchdog agency said Del Toro’s comments about the presidential election came in a BBC interview and when he was responding to questions after a speech in London.

A Massachusetts medical doctor who punched a police officer during a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to nine months of imprisonment followed by nine months of home confinement.

People gathering wild rice from Minnesota’s third-largest lake have stumbled across human skeletal remains that are believed to be several hundred years old.

A group of investors under the name RL Investor Holdings will acquire Red Lobster by the end of the month.

The system, which authorities say was put in place about a week ago, prevented a “much larger tragedy,” Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey said.

U.S. health inspectors are still struggling to address a massive backlog of pharmaceutical plants that went uninspected during disruptions caused by COVID-19. That’s according to an analysis of government data by the Associated Press. The data shows roughly 2,000 drug manufacturing sites around the world have not had a Food and Drug Administr...

The 14-year-old fatally shot two teachers and two students Wednesday at Apalachee High School on his first full day as a new student there, authorities said.