U.S. & World

After months of gradually warming sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean, NOAA officially issued an El Nino advisory Thursday and warned it could reach supersized levels.

The measure follows a trend of laws in states such as Utah and Arkansas that seek to limit adolescents’ unrestricted access to social media.

The smoke continues to smother the tri-state because of a weather pattern know as an “Omega Block” to meteorologists — here’s what that means and when we can expect the smoke to ultimately clear out

A federal investigation into Guatemalan children working in the U.S. in violation of child labor laws has expanded to include meatpacking and produce firms that have allegedly hired underage migrants in at least 11 states, two senior U.S. officials told NBC News. Investigators from the Department of Homeland Security’s...

President Joe Biden unveiled new initiatives Thursday to protect LGBTQ+ communities but hastily postponed a big Pride Month celebration on the White House lawn with thousands of guests from around the country because of poor air quality from the Canadian wildfires.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will host a Juneteenth concert next week in a “celebration of community, culture and music,” the White House announced Wednesday.

The Supreme Court has issued a surprising ruling in favor of Black voters in a congressional redistricting case, ordering the creation of a second district with a large Black population.

Scott Phillip White, 52, had pleaded guilty in the New South Wales state Supreme Court to Los Angeles-born Scott Johnson’s manslaughter.

Budweiser will still be the official World Cup beer through the 2026 tournament in the United States.

Joran van der Sloot, the chief suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway, arrived in the United States on Thursday to face charges that he attempted to extort money from the missing woman’s mother.

With living costs surging, consumers are starting to pull back on gratuities, just as tipping prompts become more pervasive than ever.

A white woman charged with fatally shooting her Black neighbor through a door has a history of harassing area children and using racial slurs against them, according to her neighbors.

France’s interior minister says an attacker with a knife injured children and others in a French town in the Alps.