U.S. & World

Nonfarm payrolls were expected to increase 214,000 in November, according to the Dow Jones consensus forecast.

In an era when online anger and social tensions are increasingly directed at the businesses consumers count on, Meta last year spent $24.4 million to surround CEO Mark Zuckerberg with security. But the fatal shooting this week of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson while walking alone on a New York City sidewalk has put a spotlight on the widely va...

The NBA is returning to China next season. The league has struck a deal to play preseason games there more than five years after the league was effectively banned for Commissioner Adam Silver not punishing Daryl Morey for tweeting support of anti-government protesters in Hong Kong. Brooklyn and Phoenix will play games in China’s gambling hub of Mac...

A jacket, an ice ax and footprints have been found where the trio were to traverse some slopes on Aoraki, but after five days, authorities believe they fell.

Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson has been arrested on federal public corruption charges, officials said Friday.

The entrepreneurs are heading up Trump’s “Department of Government Efficiency,” advising President-elect Donald Trump on ways to cut down the federal budget.

The head of President Yoon Suk Yeol’s conservative People Power Party reversed his earlier position, signaling openness to his impeachment for declaring emergency martial law.

President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday that former Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., had agreed to be nominated to be the next U.S. ambassador to China.

One man was in custody in connection with the death of a teen at a nearby home, police said Thursday.

A man suspected of burglarizing a Trump campaign office in Virginia was arrested in California over the weekend, authorities said.

The planned launch is part of the multi-voyage Artemis program that aims to return astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972.

The super PAC, which defended Trump on abortion, got its more than $20 million in funds came from the “Elon Musk Revocable Trust.”

Service and support roles are gaining interest among job seekers in Singapore, according to Indeed’s 2024 Rising Jobs list.