U.S. & World

The former president was admitted Monday to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington after developing a fever.

Two stranded NASA astronauts have followers scratching their heads over a festive new photo that shows the space travelers getting into the holiday spirit lightyears away from Earth.

Now in its 69th year, the holiday tradition lets children watch or call in to get updates on Santa Claus as he makes his way around the globe.

Giving and asking for cash for the holidays can feel gauche. But it’s within the bounds of good manners when done correctly, etiquette pros say.

The Christmas movie “Home Alone” often prompts questions about the McCallister family’s finances. What advisors say it takes to maintain their level of wealth.

After this season’s peak shopping days, retailers expect their return rate to be 17% higher, on average, than usual.

The U.S. helped engineer Panama’s independence from Colombia to build the canal, which opened in 1914. But it ceded control to Panama in 1999.

The company grounded all flights for a little over an hour on one of the busiest travel days of the year.

Church officials painted over the angels in 1912 with thick coats of white paint, part of an austere renovation that restorationists are trying to reverse.

President Joe Biden has vetoed a once-bipartisan effort to add 66 new federal district judgeships. Biden said Monday that “hurried action” by the House left key questions unanswered about the lifetime positions.

President Joe Biden has signed the annual defense authorization bill into law despite his objections to language banning transgender health care for military children.

One of Colombia’s legendary drug lords and a key operator of the Medellin cartel has been deported back to the South American country, after serving 25 years of a 30-year prison sentence in the United States.

New Mexico prosecutors won’t pursue an appeal of a court’s decision to dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against Alec Baldwin.