The Texas man who police say carried out a three-week deadly bombing spree made a 25-minute video "confession" on his phone, which authorities recovered after he blew himself up on as officers closed in.
Toys 'R' Us Inc, the iconic US toy retailer, is shuttering all its US stores after failing to find a buyer or reach a restructuring deal with creditors to push its indebted business out of...
A helicopter carrying six people crashed in New York City's East River, killing all passengers, while the pilot escaped, police said.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un wants to meet his arch critic President Donald Trump and has agreed to suspend nuclear missile tests.
Cynthia Nixon, a liberal activist and a star of the hit television series 'Sex and the City', is considering a run for governor of New York, challenging incumbent Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary, NY1 television said.
Florida's Republican-controlled Senate voted to exclude most classroom teachers from a plan to allow school staff to carry firearms as part of a package of measures in response to a school shooting that took 17 lives last month.
Dozens of US colleges and universities, have said their application processes will not consider disciplinary action taken against high school students who protest last week's massacre at a Florida school.
Oprah Winfrey put to rest any lingering questions about a potential 2020 bid for the presidency, declaring on a late-night talk show that she was "definitely not running."
No it's not the plot of some action movie. A former American football star known for his 13-year NFL career has reportedly become a bonafide FBI agent after graduating from the bureau's training academy.
A Tennessee woman driving a white van intentionally drove into a White House security barrier but did not breach it, and she was immediately apprehended and put under arrest, the US Secret Service said.
Donald Trump blasted media mogul Oprah Winfrey on Twitter over a segment on CBS's '60 Minutes' program and again said he hoped she would face him as an opponent in the 2020 presidential race.
Student survivors of the deadliest-ever shooting at a US high school reacted angrily after Donald Trump said the FBI may have been too distracted with a Russia probe to follow leads that could have prevented the massacre.
US President Donald Trump has called for healing a day after a gunman killed at least 17 people at a Florida high school, saying his administration would work to improve school safety and address mental illness.
Both Dunedin and Mumbai, India, have expressed a desire to develop their waterfronts in an attempt revitalise those parts of their cities. We look at five cities around the world who revived their waterfronts visually and economically.
Vanessa Trump and two other people were taken to a New York hospital after she opened a piece of mail containing an unidentified white powder that was later determined to be non-hazardous, officials said.
The US Defense Secretary said it was too early to tell whether a diplomatic detente between the two Koreas at the Winter Olympics would lead to results, but the move had not driven a wedge between Washington and Seoul.
Poland's president signed into law a bill that imposes jail terms for suggesting the country was complicit in the Holocaust, prompting sharp criticism from Israel and the United States.
The Dow Jones industrial average plunged more than 1,100 points today as stocks took their worst loss in six and a half years.
If you are not a fan of spiders, you may not like the creepy little arachnid scientists found entombed in chunks of amber from northern Myanmar. Unlike its spider cousins alive today, this guy had a tail.
Former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar was sentenced to an additional 40 to 125 years in prison for molesting young female gymnasts, capping weeks of horrifying testimony from nearly 200 victims.
