Tens of thousands of people welcomed the Olympic torch Wednesday in the southern French city of Marseille, marking another milestone in the lead-up to the Summer Games in Paris.
A juvenile black bear cub has been spotted roaming around D.C.'s Brookland neighborhood.
The former interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani pleaded guilty to bank and tax fraud Wednesday in a sports betting case where prosecutors allege he stole $16 million from the Japanese baseball player to pay off debts.
Armenia's prime minister visited Moscow on Thursday and held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin amid spiraling tensions between the estranged allies.
NBA players think their NFL counterparts would embarrass themselves on the hardwood. NFL players think basketball stars wouldn't last a drive on the gridiron.
Three tornadoes have been confirmed in Michigan as severe storms barreled through the central U.S. early Wednesday, killing one man in Tennessee when a tree toppled onto a vehicle he was in.
Indianapolis Star sports columnist Gregg Doyel, whose interaction with WNBA No. 1 draft pick Caitlin Clark at her introductory news conference was criticized in the national media as being inappropriate, will not cover the Indiana Fever in person this season.
Democratic Sens. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Edward Markey of Massachusetts revealed that automobiles sold in the U.S. with a GPS or emergency call system accumulate the vehicle's travel data on computer chips.
Public colleges last year experienced their sharpest annual decline in tuition revenue since 1980, driven partly by plunging enrollments.
Nelly Korda will try to become the first woman to win six consecutive LPGA starts when play in the 72-hole Cognizant Founders Cup gets underway Thursday at the Upper Montclair Country Club.
One of the great things about dealing with the written word is that you run across opportunities to remind people of bad ideas they had, usually in a moment of weakness.
Two classified State Department documents made public in part by a House subcommittee suggest that Chinese President Xi Jinping was involved in covering up the deadly COVID-19 disease outbreak.
What do you think President Franklin Roosevelt's response might have been if another nation had called on him to stop U.S. and Allied forces from taking Berlin and squashing the Nazi regime in 1945?
The ghost of Nikki Haley's presidential campaign is ringing up significant support in state primaries despite her withdrawal from the race in March shortly before Donald Trump had clinched the Republican nomination.
A Georgia man has been indicted on murder charges by grand jurors who said he intended to rape a nursing student whose body was found near a running trail on the University of Georgia campus.
A northern Idaho prosecutor won't bring hate crime charges against an 18-year-old accused of shouting a racist slur at members of the Utah women's basketball team during the NCAA Tournament.
A northern Idaho prosecutor won’t bring hate crime charges against an 18-year-old accused of shouting a racist slur at members of the Utah women’s basketball team during the NCAA Tournament.
It's clear from Monday's "Day of Rage" that anti-Israel protesters don't care about winning the hearts and minds of their fellow citizens.
The First Amendment guarantees every American the right to free speech, but no one has the right to destroy private property, trespass illegally, or attack innocent people.
A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that a Catholic school has the right to only hire staff who agree with its religious principles, rejecting a lawsuit from a substitute teacher who announced plans to enter into a same-sex marriage.
Candace Parker has a new job as president of women's basketball at Adidas.
Things are going well for Nelly Korda these days, that's for sure.
A 4-year-old girl and her 2-year-old brother have died in a tributary of the Santa Ana River in San Bernardino, California.
Porn star Stormy Daniels' testimony about an extramarital sexual encounter with former President Donald Trump is the kind of thing that would sink a normal politician. But there was no indication on Wednesday that his Rolodex of congressional supporters or evangelical base was ready to ditch him over Ms. Daniels' X-rated narrative.
Minutes after his team was knocked out of the NHL playoffs in a game that included two disallowed goals because of goaltender interference, Jon Cooper was careful to say those calls weren't the reason the Tampa Bay Lightning lost the series. He still had a problem with them.
