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When questioned Monday by reporters about "an explosion in Venezuela," the president said the U.S. struck a facility where boats accused of carrying drugs "load up."

From Pope Francis to Ozzy Osbourne, Dick Cheney to Virginia Giuffre, here's a roll call of some of the influential figures who died this year.

Here are 20 questions to see how well you know -- or remember -- about the indelible imprint made on pop culture by and for baby boomers.

Video from the scene shows a helicopter spinning rapidly to the ground.

The snow and strengthening winds began spreading Sunday across the northern Plains, where the National Weather Service warned of whiteout conditions and possible blizzard conditions that could make travel impossible in some areas.

Zohran Mamdani began 2025 as a little-known state legislator, and in the first minutes of 2026 he'll be sworn in as mayor of New York, often called the second-toughest job in America. Campaign photographer Kara McCurdy documented his remarkable rise, ...

Two helicopters crashed in New Jersey in what federal authorities say was a midair collision that killed one person and critically injured another.

California this week dropped a lawsuit officials filed against the Trump administration over the federal government's withdrawing of $4 billion for the state's long-delayed high-speed rail project.

A new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts and its partners predicts that plastic pollution will more than double over the next 15 years -- the equivalent of dumping nearly a garbage truck full of plastic waste every second. Hundreds of miles from . ...

More than a thousand flights were canceled or delayed across the Northeast and Great Lakes regions due to snow as thousands took to U.S. roads and airports during the busy travel period between Christmas and New Year's.