U.S. & World

Players like Shohei Ohtani and Shota Imanaga are changing the face of both the game and its fans.

President Donald Trump has signed into law legislation funding the government through the end of September. His signature Saturday ends the threat of a partial government shutdown and caps off a struggle in Congress that deeply divided Democrats. The bill largely keeps government funding at levels set during Joe Biden’s presidency, though with chan...

A group of House Republicans has put forward legislation seeking to prevent Chinese students from studying in American schools, citing national security concerns.

President Donald Trump is ordering his administration to gut Voice of America and other pro-democracy media organizations run by the U.S. government. Trump issued an order Friday night to reduce costs at the U.S. Agency for Global Media and six other obscure federal agencies to the lowest amount possible. That was followed by staff at Voice of Amer...

Mahmoud Khalil was taken into custody by immigration authorities last weekend, prompting outrage.

President Donald Trump’s suspended tariffs on many goods from Canada and Mexico are set to take hold April 2, with more import taxes on other products and countries coming soon. That means consumers may start to see price hikes at the grocery store within weeks, especially for some of the least shelf-stable items. Imports make up&nbs...

The Federal Trade Commission issued a warning earlier this year letting smartphone users know they were being targeted in an unpaid tolls scam.

Nine other members of the Democratic Caucus — a contingent of mostly swing-state and retiring senators — eventually joined Schumer in voting to advance the Republican funding proposal

A powerful system of storms is sweeping across the Midwest and South, raising tornado warnings.

An Idaho teacher is in a standoff with her own school district after officials ordered her to remove classroom signs, including one that reads, “Everyone is welcome here.”  Sarah Inama, a sixth-grade history teacher at Lewis and Clark Middle School in Meridian, Idaho, says she won’t comply with the order, arguing that the message is a fu...

A man who might’ve been the last person to see a missing University of Pittsburgh student in the Dominican Republic said he rescued her from drowning — only for her to vanish a short time later, according to a transcript of an interview he gave local authorities, NBC News reported.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says South Africa’s ambassador to the United States “is no longer welcome” in the United States.

Audio from a 911 call made after four University of Idaho college students were fatally stabbed reveals the panic of the survivors as they struggled to understand what occurred, NBC News reported. The 911 audio call made on the morning of Nov. 13, 2022, was obtained by NBC News on Friday, about two weeks after the transcript of the call w...