In a poor neighborhood of the Venezuelan city of Maracay, the mother of 24-year-old Francisco José García Casique was waiting for him on Saturday.
It had been 18 months since he had migrated to the US to begin a new life but he had told her that he (...)
Dozens of passengers were forced to stand on the wing of an American Airlines plane at Denver International Airport as they evacuated the aircraft after one of its engines caught fire Thursday evening, sending thick black smoke billowing into the (...)
Strong winds from a recent storm in the south sent a US Customs and Border Protection surveillance blimp flying nearly 600 miles across Texas.
The blimp – resembling a while-hot air balloon - was dislodged from its base in South Padre Island, a (...)
More than 55 million people across the central and southern US are at risk of severe weather on Tuesday as a violent storm sweeps across the country, bringing the potential for blizzard conditions, tornadoes and fire weather.
The dangerous storm is (...)
A US Secret Service agent who leaped on to John F Kennedy's limousine as it came under fire in Dallas, and was pictured in famous photos of one of the most dramatic events in US history, has died at the age of 93.
Clint Hill later became a (...)
The Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday won their franchise's second Super Bowl championship, putting an end to the Kansas City Chiefs' dream of a three-peat with a dominant and complete performance on both sides of the ball, winning 40-22.
The Eagles (...)
US President Donald Trump has ordered officials to make plans to declassify documents related to three of the most consequential assassinations in US history -- the killings of John F Kennedy, Robert F Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.
"A lot of (...)
An assertive group of cross-country travelers pinned and duct-taped an unruly passenger mid-flight this week after he allegedly tried to force open a plane door at 30,000 feet, according to public safety records and someone onboard.
The tussle on (...)
Jake Paul secured an eight-round unanimous decision over 58-year-old Mike Tyson on Friday night, in a highly anticipated but underwhelming boxing match at AT&T Stadium, home of the NFL's Dallas Cowboys.
Paul, the 27-year-old YouTuber-turned-boxer, (...)
Mike Tyson slapped Jake Paul at a charged weigh-in for Friday's controversial heavyweight fight in Texas.
Novice boxer Paul, 27, will take on 58-year-old Tyson at the AT&T Stadium in Dallas.
After both men had weighed in, Paul crawled across the (...)
DALLAS — Let's be honest — people have a habit of bringing their phones to the bathroom. I've been guilty of it myself, and chances are that someone is on the toilet reading this article right now. A three-minute trip to the loo can easily turn into (...)
US President Joe Biden has urged pro-Palestinian protesters on university campuses to uphold the rule of law.
"We are a civil society, and order must prevail," Biden said from the White House, in his first direct remarks about a wave of student (...)
Hundreds of police officers in riot gear have cleared a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Police moved in before dawn on Thursday after ordering more than 1,000 protesters to leave the area.
The officers (...)
Millions of people across Mexico, the US and Canada looked to the skies on Monday to witness a total solar eclipse carve a narrow path of darkness across the continent.
The moon's shadow first touched the surface of the Earth in the Pacific Ocean (...)
Eclipse watchers are keeping a close eye on the weather ahead of a solar eclipse that will plunge a wide strip of North America into daytime darkness on Monday.
Forecasters are predicting cloudy conditions in northern Mexico, Texas and parts of the (...)
Eclipse fever is building. Millions in North America are hoping to spend around four minutes of total darkness as the Moon blocks the Sun's light on Monday.
For some, those precious minutes will be an opportunity for often impossible science (...)
How lucky can the residents of Carbondale, Illinois, be?
Celestial mechanics says any one spot on the Earth's surface should experience a total solar eclipse only once every 375 years, on average.
The 30,000 residents of the Midwestern city will (...)
A powerful storm that battered a large swath of the eastern US, knocking out power across several states and leading to multiple rescues, is delivering its final blow to New England Wednesday.
There were more than 600,000 homes and businesses (...)
Multiple people were wounded Thursday morning in a shooting at Perry High School near Des Moines, Iowa, the county sheriff said.
The shooter is dead, a law enforcement official told CNN.
The shooter has been identified, Dallas County Sheriff Adam (...)
Laura Lynch — a founding member of the US country music band the Dixie Chicks — has died in a car crash. She was 65.
The Texas Department of Public Safety said she died after being involved in a collision between two vehicles near the city of El (...)
In one corner: Pope Francis, who insists on a merciful Catholic Church open to everyone, a "field hospital" ready to bind up the wounds of a suffering humanity. In the other corner: a small but vocal minority that has set itself against the Pontiff (...)
A major sports movement, led by the Saudi government with the support of the Ministry of Sports and the Saudi Olympic & Paralympic Committee, has resulted in an increase in the number of sport federations to approximately 100, each of which oversees (...)
The Duchess of York has said she is "shocked and saddened" after her former personal assistant Jenean Chapman was killed in Dallas, Texas.
Sarah Ferguson paid tribute to Chapman, 46, describing her as "loyal, hardworking, beautiful and (...)
Six decades later, new details are still coming to light in one of the most scrutinized events in American history: the assassination of President John F Kennedy.
Paul Landis, an 88-year-old former Secret Service agent who witnessed the president's (...)
Three-time WWE world champion Bray Wyatt has died at the age of 36.
The wrestler had been dealing with an undisclosed health issue that had kept him out of the ring since February, but his death was characterized as sudden by his family.
The news (...)
