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Prince George's County Council Chair Krystal Oriadha is trying to claw back $7.6 million in taxpayer funds she directed to a personal friend's charity, following mounting public backlash.

Hackers remotely took control of refrigeration systems in hundreds of French supermarkets, driving temperatures to 50 degrees Celsius and spoiling food, while a Dutch grocery giant also shut down systems after a cybersecurity incident.

Manhattan's Upper West Side has been reveling in the company of its latest celebrities: A family of barn owls nested in a water tower atop a building near Central Park.

Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao's federal bribery trial began this week, with the Democrat accused of gaining a no-show job for her lover and campaign favors in exchange for funneling money to two businesses run by her alleged conspirators.

Microsoft co-founder BILL GATES is preparing to sharply expand his campaign for tougher AI safeguards, personally pressing business leaders and weighing a major commitment of his resources.

A prominent local warehouse owner died along with five other people when the plane he owned crashed in Wisconsin after ice built up on the wings during a thunderstorm.

High gas prices are intensifying inflation and vacuuming up more of Americans' dollars, yet consumers are still digging deep to spend, powering the economy, at least for now.

The legacy of the Black Panther Party lives on six decades after its founding, in the work of a Seattle medical center started to address systemic health disparities in the African American community, particularly among Black children.

The Justice Department filed a groundbreaking lawsuit Thursday asking a judge to forbid California from counting ballots of roughly 20,000 people the feds believe to be noncitizens, unless the state takes steps to verify they are in fact valid voters ...

Actor-director BEN AFFLECK is warning that the public glee over Tom Cruise's box office flop "Digger" could push Hollywood toward safer, more uniform movies: "Guess what you're going to get? A bunch of s---tty homogenized movies."