Puerto Rico declared a state of emergency as Tropical Storm Dorian, which is growing as it moves across the Caribbean, could be upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane when it nears the island still recovering…

Jeremy Lin will take his talents to China. The Harvard-educated basketball player, who electrified America with a month-and-half-long run of "Linsanity" in early 2012, signed a deal to play for the Beijing Shougang Ducks of…

On Twitter Monday afternoon, a George Washington University professor compared conservative New York Times columnist Bret Stephens to a bedbug after a Times editor had posted that bedbugs were spotted in its newsroom. David Karpf's…

Alleged victims of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself this month in his federal jail cell, shared their stories Tuesday in a Manhattan courtroom. The first accuser to speak, Courtney Wild, said Epstein…

An incoming Harvard freshman was denied entry to the United States after arriving in Boston to begin classes at the school, the university said Tuesday. The student, Ismail Ajjawi, 17, was questioned by immigration officials…

Supermodel Adut Akech said she felt disrespected after an Australian magazine published a feature article about her with the image of a different black model. Akech appeared in Who Magazine ahead of Melbourne Fashion Week,…

The armed robbery of a Manhattan jewelry store in broad daylight is shown on video released by New York City police. Three men entered Avianne & Co. in the city's bustling Midtown around noon Sunday…

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Tuesday that he will accept the offer of international aid to help fight the fires raging across the Amazon rainforest, but that French President Emmanuel Macron must first apologize to…