James “Jim” Riches, a former New York City Fire Department deputy chief, died on Thanksgiving Day at age 74 from illnesses linked to toxic exposure at Ground Zero, 24 years after the attacks claimed ...

Italy gets angry at “fake” carbonara, the winner of the Wildlife Comedy Awards is revealed, plus the phony tourist attractions built to please visitors.

Christos Tsirogiannis has spent almost two decades trawling through inventories of museums, auction houses and other collections for illegally trafficked antiquities.

Mubashir had just stepped outside into the snowy Minneapolis winter weather to take his lunch break when he says he saw a masked federal officer running toward him “at full speed.” ...

Beloved actor Dick Van Dyke is celebrating his 100th birthday on Saturday.

A series of scandals over the last several years begs a simple, yet critical question: Is what happened with Sherrone Moore a serious, but isolated, incident or a symbol of a broader, cultural problem ...

Target hopes that a recapturing of its cultural cachet will spark a turnaround for its business. It’s turning to a fashion-forward New York neighborhood to get started.

Lottery hopefuls are taking their shot at Saturday night’s $1 billion Powerball jackpot – the 14th US lottery prize to ever reach $1 billion and the second to do so this year.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended a welcoming ceremony for an army engineering unit that had returned home after carrying out duties in Russia, the North’s KCNA news agency reported on Saturday ...

Three Turkish-owned ships were damaged in Russian attacks on ports in the Odesa region on Friday, according to Ukraine’s navy spokesperson. Video obtained and geolocated by CNN shows a Turkish ship ...

The death of a 32-year-old man after riding a high-speed roller coaster at the Universal Epic Universe theme park was accidental, and an investigation has been closed, according to a Florida sheriff’s ...