U.S. & World

A Delta flight from JFK Airport headed to Los Angeles had to return back to the Queens airport shortly after takeoff Friday due to an issue with the emergency slide, the airline said.

For the second time in recent months, President Joe Biden’s administration is delaying a sweeping plan to ban menthol cigarettes.

Columbia University students who inspired pro-Palestinian demonstrations across the country said Friday that they have reached an impasse with administrators and intend to continue their encampment until their demands are met.

Buckingham Palace says King Charles III will resume his public duties next week following treatment for cancer.

A former Arkansas mortuary worker has pleaded guilty to charges that she sold 24 boxes of stolen body parts from medical school cadavers to a Pennsylvania man.

When it comes to Olympic athletes, Dylan Beard is cold cut from a different cloth.

Hairstylist Kaitlin Jorgenson commutes four-plus hours by plane twice a month from Charlotte, North Carolina to work in New York.

Egypt has sent a high-level delegation to Israel with the hope of brokering a cease-fire agreement with Hamas in Gaza. At the same time, Egypt warned that a possible Israeli offensive focused on the southern city of Rafah on the border with Egypt could have catastrophic consequences to regional stability. As the war drags on and casualties mount, t...

David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, returned to the witness stand for a fourth day as defense attorneys tried to poke holes in his testimony about his tabloid’s efforts to protect Trump from potentially damaging stories using a catch-and-kill scheme.

TikTok is gearing up for a legal fight against a U.S. law that would force the social media platform to break ties with its China-based parent company or face a ban.

Mexico City prosecutors are seeking to downplay the case of a suspected serial killer who kept women’s bones and a saw in his room.

U.S. officials say the Pentagon is expected to announce that it will provide about $6 billion in long-term military aid to Ukraine.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said Thursday that he planned to sign a bill state legislators sent to his desk this week that would allow school staff members to carry concealed handguns on school grounds.