The Justice Department filed court documents Tuesday seeking to represent President Donald Trump in a lawsuit brought by E. Jean Carroll, who claimed he sexually assaulted her in the 1990s. The department, which is supposed…

Millions of children have learned their numbers on "Sesame Street," where Count von Count has, for decades, embodied the joy of counting. He is, of course, notoriously meticulous: He will leave no subject untallied, to…

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger says that 1,000 people may have voted twice in the state's messy pandemic primary elections this year, adding that the state will investigate for potential voter fraud. “We have…

Clinical trials for Oxford's COVID-19 vaccine have been put on hold, drug maker AstraZeneca said Tuesday. "Our standard review process was triggered and we voluntarily paused vaccination to allow review of safety data by an…

Wind-whipped wildfires roared through southeast Washington state, virtually wiping out one entire small town, reducing its City Hall and fire department to rubble, authorities said Tuesday. Three fires between Colfax and Malden, in Whitman County,…

Rochester’s police chief and deputy chief resigned Tuesday amid outrage over the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man with mental health issues who died after being put in a “spit hood” and restrained by…

August was full of sales from Nordstrom’s Anniversary Sale to Amazon’s Big Summer Sale and early Labor Day sales. Although September doesn’t bring quite as many to the table, there are still a handful of…

As many as 34 million people sick from a respiratory virus. 490,000 hospitalizations. 34,000 deaths. Are we talking about the coronavirus? Nope. “Just” the flu. And it’s lurking just around the corner. In the United…