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The NBA approved sweeping changes to the draft lottery on Thursday that will strip the teams with the worst records from receiving the best odds of winning the No. 1 pick, something the league hopes will prevent tanking.

World Cup goals won't end America's war in Iran. Undaunted, the Iranian soccer team is planning an unprecedented move this summer: playing in a major athletic competition hosted by a wartime opponent.

Social media personality Palm Beach Pete announced his candidacy for mayor of Palm Beach, Florida.

The Environmental Protection Agency is withdrawing a Biden-era rule that stripped industries of protection against civil liability and penalties for emergency-related violations of Clean Air Act emission limits.

Kyle Busch died last week from hemorrhagic shock and disseminated intravascular coagulation after complications from bacterial pneumonia led to sepsis, according to the former NASCAR star's death certificate.

Water flowed again Thursday from D.C.'s Christopher Columbus Memorial Fountain, ending a two-decade drought for the historic structure that sits outside Union Station.

Several performers have pulled out of a concert series for The Great American State Fair on the National Mall.

Los Angeles Police Department officers serving search and arrest warrants on Wednesday found a cache of illegal fireworks.

June is still a few days away, but Boston may have already won the contest for the most outrageous Pride Month function with an event backed by the mayor's office on transgender menstruation "pride."

The Trump administration's sweeping deregulatory push now extends to rolling back hunting and fishing restrictions on federal lands.