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.

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 ...

Whether or not anyone wins the billion-dollar Powerball jackpot on Saturday, at least one of the losers might already be known: Mega Millions.

President Donald Trump’s recent peace deal between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo may have been shaken as the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 consolidated control of a strategic town in ...

Bruna Ferreira had rushed out of her Massachusetts home, shoelaces untied, and was driving to pick up her 11-year-old son from school when she was approached by unmarked vehicles and a “swarm of ...