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The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate jumped this week to its highest level in nearly three years.

A Tennessee man who worked as a sheriff's deputy was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for producing child sexual abuse material after posing online as a teenage boy to exploit children across the country, the Justice Department announced.

The Cowboys acquired Steelers cornerback Joey Porter Jr. in exchange for two draft picks. Dallas' defense is among the NFL's worst, and Porter has been inactive all season.

A small-town Texas barbecue joint has pulled brisket from its everyday menu, a sign of how costly beef has become for restaurants and shoppers.

A record-low 31% of adults participating in the Gallup poll described a college education as "very important," the company reported Thursday.

PETE DAVIDSON is lasering off most of his tattoos, but one is staying: the portrait of Hillary Clinton on his right leg: "She stays. That's my dog. I love Hillary, man."

Babydog's Outback order, how the GOP is saving big on ads after two Supreme Court rulings and why ailing senators turn to Dr. Barrasso.

Construction of the USS John F. Kennedy is 99% complete and the aircraft carrier is ready for at-sea training while the shipbuilder completes final testing before delivery next spring, officials said.

Tennessee officials could not carry out the execution of Christa Gail Pike on Wednesday after giving her two doses of pentobarbital, putting a drug long used in medicine, and increasingly in death chambers, at the center of a national debate. But ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's fiery speech to troops at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia included the creation of the Office of Religious Affairs, providing a direct channel between chaplains and top officials at the Department of Defense.