A comic novel about a cynic’s struggles to connect with others has won a $10,000 award named for a widely-respected author ...

The U.S. economy expanded at a surprising 3% annual pace from April through June, bouncing back at least temporarily from a ...

Israeli strikes and gunfire in the Gaza Strip killed at least 46 Palestinians overnight into Wednesday morning, most of them ...

The Justice Department says in support of its request to unseal grand jury transcripts of proceedings that led to the sex ...

The man who stormed a Manhattan office tower with a gun, killing four people before killing himself, worked in the ...

China’s top leaders have pledged to help companies slammed by higher U.S. tariffs but held back on major moves after trade ...

Investigators are piecing together more details about how a former high school football player who blamed the game for his ...

Thousands of Black Sabbath fans will pay their respects Wednesday to Black Sabbath front man Ozzy Osbourne as his hearse makes its way through the streets of Birmingham, the city in central ...

One of the world’s strongest earthquakes struck Russia’s Far East early Wednesday, an 8.8-magnitude temblor that caused small ...

On this day in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed legislation into law that launched Medicaid, creating a U.S. health care safety net for millions of low-income Americans ...

NASA and India paired up to launch an Earth-mapping satellite on Wednesday capable of tracking even the slightest shifts in land and ice. The $1.3 billion mission will ...