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A 78-year-old woman died and 22 other others, including more than a dozen firefighters, were injured after a massive blaze ripped through a Queens home Saturday morning, police and FDNY officials said.

Flames erupted ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Tech scion David Ellison for months projected confidence that his blockbuster Hollywood merger was on a glide path to completion.

His media company Paramount Skydance's pitch early this year was that its ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Approximately 50 demonstrators gathered Saturday morning in Pasadena as part of a national action to honor lives lost during immigration enforcement operations and in detention centers during the Trump ...Read more

CHICAGO — In 2013, the closures of 49 public schools were referred to by then-Chicago Teachers Union chief Karen Lewis as “a scorched earth policy,” not an education plan.

When the Chicago Board of Education ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A U.S. appeals court rejected the Justice Department’s request to let federal officials fully move ahead with Donald Trump’s overhaul of mail voting ahead of the November midterm elections, leaving in ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Outside St. Paul’s largest homeless encampment in an out-of-the-way East Side park near the river, a small army of outreach workers, case managers and social workers were set up behind a bank of ...Read more

Brazil has denied visas to two senior U.S. State Department officials whom the Trump administration planned to send to scrutinize the fairness and integrity of the country’s electoral system before the Oct. 4 ...Read more

Taika Waititi is grateful Rita Ora froze her eggs in her mid 20s.

The 35-year-old singer took steps to preserve her fertility when she was 24 and 27 and she's thankful she did so because she and her 50-year-old husband - ...Read more

Pamela Anderson hasn't been asked to appear in the Baywatch reboot.

The 59-year-old actress shot to fame playing C.J. Parker in the first five seasons of the lifeguard drama but she insisted she doesn't "know much" about ...Read more

Katy Perry is "deeply appalled and angry" after President Donald Trump used her song Firework to accompany footage of US strikes on Iran.

The 41-year-old singer has blasted the White House over a TikTok video shared ...Read more

Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev urged Russian leader Vladimir Putin to consider freezing the war in Ukraine and returning to a revamped version of the 2022 Istanbul talks, in a rare public nudge toward peace from ...Read more

Skirmishes between Houthi rebels and Saudi Arabia intensified as a pause in the nearly two-week run of nightly U.S. strikes on Iran raised fresh questions about President Donald Trump’s strategy in the war.

The Houthis,...Read more

Chandler Bondurant fly-fishes in the Boise River every day, but since the first week of July, the only thing he’s caught is slime.

“It’s pretty much unfishable in town,” Bondurant told the Idaho Statesman.

As ...Read more

In the face of amped-up federal immigration enforcement actions, Maryland has passed more laws that aim to protect the immigrants living within its borders than most states.

Baltimore’s Hispanic and Latino residents say...Read more

Simone Biles has undergone a "procedure", weeks after her near-death experience.

The Olympic gymnast cryptically revealed last month that "almost dying wasn't on [her] bingo card" and while she still hasn't revealed what...Read more

Suki Waterhouse wants to raise her family in London.

The Daisy Jones and the Six actress and her fiance Robert Pattinson - who have a two-year-old daughter together - have been living in Los Angeles in recent years but ...Read more

John Cusack wrote a graphic novel because he didn't want to have to "negotiate" his vision.

The 60-year-old actor has largely stepped out of the spotlight in recent years but made a rare public appearance at San Diego ...Read more

It was a blistering day in Butte County when a man revved his wheels in dry grass until a spark ignited, then pushed the flaming vehicle down a 60-foot hill.

Whipped by strong winds amid 100-plus degree temperatures, that...Read more

Wildfire smoke is once again straining relationships between Minnesota and its neighbor to the north.

For the second year in a row, Minnesotans experienced some of the worst air quality in the world as hundreds of ...Read more

India’s youth protesters called off their nationwide demonstrations after the government accepted their key demands including the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, marking rare concessions to a ...Read more