A good Samaritan went into the water to hold onto a struggling dog that was thrown off of a bridge into the Harlem River. The FDNY came on a boat to eventually rescue the dog out of the river.
The Louisiana State Museum has placed what is considered to be the oldest video of New Orleans and Mardi Gras on display.
The school board in Uvalde, Texas, plans to vote this weekend on a superintendent's recommendation to fire the school district police chief widely criticized for his handling of the shooting rampage that killed 19 children and two teachers in May.
Little known are the names of the Americans detained abroad despite their years' long plight to regain their freedom, but now, thanks to a work of art unveiled on Wednesday in the U.S.
Last week's collapse of U.S. climate legislation could severely hamper the development of clean-burning transportation fuels, investors, lobbyists and analysts said.
Protesting truckers stopped traffic on Wednesday at a Northern California port, one of the busiest in the United States, as they demonstrated against a new state labor law that makes it harder for independent truckers to operate.
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced two bills on Wednesday, aimed at reforming a long-standing election law that former President Donald Trump used in his failed effort to overturn his 2020 loss to Democratic President Joe Biden.
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced two bills on Wednesday to reform election laws, seeking to block a repeat of then-President Donald Trump's failed attempt to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democratic President Joe Biden.
Rudy Giuliani, who previously served as Donald Trump's personal lawyer, has been ordered by a judge to testify in August as a witness before a Georgia special grand jury probing the former president's alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election results.
Scientists have answered a longstanding question about mammalian evolution, examining ear anatomy of living and extinct mammals and their close relatives to determine when warm-bloodedness - a trait integral to the lineage's success - first emerged.
U.S. companies are hosting customer data more often on servers in China, complicating U.S.
Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska appealed to U.S.
The next Mega Millions numbers will be drawn on Tuesday, July 22.
A South Carolina attorney, who was indicted last week by a grand jury on charges of murdering his wife and youngest son in June 2021, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to the charges.
The U.S. House plans to vote as early as next week on a slimmed-down version of legislation to provide tens of billions of dollars in subsidies and tax credits for the semiconductor industry, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.
EU antitrust regulators are set to beef up an investigation into Apple, triggered by Spotify, with new evidence but not new charges, in the hope of speeding up the case, people familiar with the matter said.
Top U.S. Senate Democrats and Republicans said on Wednesday they may have the votes to pass a bill protecting same-sex marriage rights nationwide, the day after the measure passed the House of Representatives with a bipartisan majority.
The Novavax COVID vaccine is recommended for those individuals who are 18 and older.
A heat wave on Wednesday was expected to smother a broad swath of the United States for a second day, pushing temperatures to record highs in many areas and leading forecasters to warn about the dangers of dehydration and exposure.
Some 100 million Americans from New York City to Las Vegas are under heat warnings this week as temperatures rise well above 100 Fahrenheit (38 Celsius), part of a trend of extreme weather made worse by climate change.
When Long Island, New York resident Jenn Ifer is not working indoors at her COVID-19 testing company, she's spending 10-hour days in Times Square administering PCR tests, a task that has become harder during a heat wave smothering a broad swath of the United States and breaking temperature records.
The U.S. Justice Department unveiled a $1.2 billion healthcare fraud crackdown on Wednesday, revealing criminal charges against 36 defendants for alleged fraudulent billing schemes tied to telemedicine, genetic and cardiovascular testing, and equipment.
The United States and Canada on Wednesday demanded dispute settlement talks with Mexico under a North American trade deal, charging that Mexican energy policies were discriminatory and "undermine" international firms and cross-border supplies.
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) said Wednesday it plans to buy at least 25,000 electric delivery vehicles - more than twice its prior estimate - as it works to replace an aging fleet.
The United States will send four more high mobility artillery rocket systems (HIMARS) to Ukraine, U.S.
"She reports that everything is fine," the agency entered into the system, quoting the children's mother who was by then taken into custody for their murders.
"It was the loudest thud. At first, I thought it was an air conditioning unit,” a resident of the building said about the fall. “I looked down and he was right below my window… he was butt naked.”
Authorities said these people were arrested for allegedly being involved in a drug trafficking organization that distributed fentanyl in Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
The acting head of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Wednesday that U.S.
Hungry polar bears are turning to garbage dumps to fill their stomachs as their icy habitat disappears.
