U.S. & World

The potential new offering comes at a time when low-income consumers are beginning to pull back on spending, particularly at fast-food brands.

The U.N. General Assembly has voted by a wide margin to grant new “rights and privileges” to Palestine and has called on the Security Council to favorably reconsider its request to become the 194th member of the United Nations.

The official list of America’s most popular baby names for 2023 has been revealed. The Social Security Administration annually tracks the names given to girls and boys in each state.

A tractor-trailer hauling about 15 million honey bees to be used to pollinate blueberry fields crashed and overturned on Interstate 95 in Maine on Thursday night, officials said.

In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, a school board in Virginia stripped the names of Confederate military figures from two schools. Four years later, the board approved a motion to restore the names.

Videos circulating on Chinese social media show the two “panda dogs” in an exhibit at Taizhou Zoo in the eastern province of Jiangsu that opened on May 1.

A Brazilian horse nicknamed Caramelo by social media users had been balancing on two narrow strips of slippery asbestos for days in the city of Canoas.

Prosecutors in Donald Trump’s hush money trial are narrowing in on checks and phone records as they lay the groundwork for jurors to hear eventually from their star witness: Michael Cohen, Trump’s former attorney.

A graduation ceremony for nursing students at Howard University ended abruptly Thursday after the auditorium reached capacity.

Senegal’s transport minister says a Boeing 737 carrying 85 people caught fire and skidded off a runway at an airport near the capital and 10 people were injured.

The Senate has passed a $105 billion bill designed to improve air safety and customer service for air travelers, a day before the law governing the Federal Aviation Administration expires.

The number of applicants to these post-graduate training programs dropped slightly across the board from spring of 2023 to spring of 2024, with larger decreases seen in states with abortion bans

Other passengers on that Spirit Airlines flight from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, to Boston said they could hear a tense verbal exchange during the flight.