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The federal budget deficit ballooned to $2 trillion in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, compared to $1.8 trillion last year, according to a new report.

President Trump on Thursday said he did not plan on launching new military strikes on Iran ahead of the November midterm elections, citing "productive discussions" with Tehran.

A 61-year-old Canadian grandmother says she surpassed her own world record for the longest abdominal plank by a woman, holding the position for five hours at the Huntsman World Senior Games.

A 42-year-old dual Ukrainian and Russian citizen has pleaded guilty to helping run an international money laundering operation that moved millions of dollars stolen from U.S. bank accounts, the Justice Department announced.

The Marylander Condominiums moved closer to receivership on Thursday after their attorneys failed to appear in state court.

A pastor interrupted an Ottumwa City Council meeting Tuesday after a former council member opened the session with an invocation that ended with a salute to Satan, setting off a dispute over how far the Iowa city's new open-prayer policy reaches. The ...

Margaret Hamilton, the computer scientist who led the MIT team that wrote onboard flight software for NASA's Apollo moon missions, died Sept. 30. She was 90.

The U.S. military has executed at least 135 of its own -- a rogues' gallery of notorious mutineers, deserters, rapists and killers -- over the past 250 years. In a few weeks, former Army psychiatrist and mass shooter Nidal Malik Hasan's name is ...

New records released by the Secret Service detailed how a member of Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, carried a loaded gun past a Secret Service screening checkpoint last year when President Trump was at the club.

For the past 10 years, nutrition experts and the general public continue to rank the Mediterranean diet as the healthiest approach to meal planning. A key ingredient in the lifestyle approach is extra virgin olive oil.