Two scientists from China have been charged in Michigan in what the FBI says was an effort to bring a toxic fungus to the U.S. Investigators say the pathogen can attack wheat, barley, maize and rice and sicken livestock and people.

Victoria’s Secret is postponing the release of its quarterly earnings following a security breach that disrupted the popular lingerie brand’s corporate operations and led it to take down its U.S. shopping site for several days last week.

Inflation in the 20 countries that use the euro fell to 1.9% in May from 2.2% in April, helping clear the way for more interest rate cuts from the European Central Bank.

U.S. stocks drifted higher and pulled closer to their record as the wait continues for more updates on President Donald Trump’s tariffs and how much they’re affecting the economy.

A Romanian citizen has pleaded guilty to engaging in a plot to use “swatting” calls to intimidate and threaten dozens of people with bogus police emergencies, including a former U.S. president and several members of Congress.

Two days into the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, and the National Hurricane Center is already monitoring an area of potential development.

The head of the U.S. Energy Department says President Donald Trump wants to double the amount of oil coursing through Alaska’s 800-mile pipeline system and build a massive natural gas export project as its twin.

A surprise Ukrainian drone attack that targeted Russian air bases hosting nuclear-capable strategic bombers was unprecedented in its scope and sophistication, and dealt a heavy blow to the Russian military.

Iranian, Egyptian and U.N. leaders have met to discuss Iran’s nuclear program after the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Iran is increasing its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels.

A little less than once a week on average since President Donald Trump began his second term, his administration’s lawyers have filed emergency appeals with the Supreme Court.

More than 25,000 residents in three provinces have been evacuated as dozens of wildfires remained active Sunday and diminished air quality in parts of Canada and the U.S. Most of the evacuated residents were from Manitoba, which declared a state of emergency last week.

By making harsh, uncompromising demands in peace talks with Ukraine while continuing to pummel it with waves of missiles and drones, Russian President Vladimir Putin is sending a clear message: He will only accept a settlement on his terms and will keep fighting until they’re met.

The Trump administration is sending three Cabinet members to Alaska this week as it pursues oil drilling in the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and reinvigorating a natural gas project that’s languished for years.

Pride Month, a global celebration of LGBTQ+ people, is starting this weekend in many places.

About 17,000 residents of Manitoba in central Canada have been evacuated because of nearly two dozen active wildfires.

Hamas is seeking amendments to the latest U.S. ceasefire proposal for Gaza.

The U.S. government’s list of “sanctuary jurisdictions” includes hundreds of communities, both red and blue.

A key U.S. inflation gauge slowed last month as President Donald Trump’s tariffs have yet to noticeably push up prices, while American incomes jumped.

The Russian captain of a cargo ship that collided with a U.S. tanker in the North Sea has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter.

The Florida Department of Transportation’s planned structural work on the Buckman Bridge will disrupt weekend traffic.

A new supercomputer named after a winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry will help power artificial intelligence technology and scientific discoveries from a perch in the hills above the University of California, Berkeley, federal officials said Thursday.

Businesses rattled by President Donald Trump’s on again, off again tariffs are absorbing more jolts after a U.S. appeals court temporarily blocked a federal court order that would have halted most of his taxes on foreign imports.

Harrison Ruffin Tyler died on Sunday.

Coco Gauff has managed to move into the French Open's third round despite some shaky serving.

The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. rose this week to its highest level since early February, further pushing up borrowing costs for homebuyers.

The White House says Israel has accepted a new U.S. proposal for a temporary ceasefire with Hamas.

A former surgeon general of the U.S. once wrote “Loneliness and weak social connections are associated with a reduction in lifespan similar to that caused by smoking 15 cigarettes a day.”

The Trump administration says it's working to return a Guatemalan man who was deported to Mexico over his fears of being harmed there.

The Trump administration has canceled $766 million awarded to drugmaker Moderna Inc. to develop a vaccine against potential pandemic influenza viruses, including H5N1 bird flu.

Former Connecticut Gov. John Rowland, whose promising political career was upended by a corruption scandal, has been pardoned by President Donald Trump.

A federal judge said the Trump administration’s effort to deport Mahmoud Khalil because of his pro-Palestinian activism at Columbia University was likely unconstitutional.

President Donald Trump wants the world to know he’s no “chicken” just because he’s repeatedly backed off high tariff threats.

Releases of immigrant children in U.S. custody have slowed dramatically since the Trump administration increased vetting of people seeking to take care of them.

U.S. officials say the State Department has halted the scheduling of new visa interviews for foreign students hoping to study in the U.S. while it prepares to expand the screening of their activity on social media.

Stragglers beware: U.S. travelers flying with United Airlines will have to check in to domestic flights a little earlier starting next week.

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to halt a judge’s order allowing migrants to challenge their deportations to South Sudan.

A Ukrainian official says Russian forces have taken over four border villages in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region.

Representatives from NATO-aligned countries are wrapping up a gathering in Ohio to mark the Dayton Peace Accords that ended the Bosnian war 30 years ago.

Colorectal cancer is the fourth most common cancer in the U.S. and the second leading cause of cancer death. But there are some measures you can take to lower your chances of developing this often-deadly cancer.

A Ukrainian official says that Russia has launched its biggest drone attack against Ukraine overnight.

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim says Southeast Asian nations will forge a common front to face challenges including economic headwinds from U.S. tariffs and the four-year deadly civil war in Myanmar.

President Donald Trump says the U.S. will delay implementation of a 50% tariff on goods from the European Union from June 1 until July 9 to buy time for negotiations with the bloc.

A dual U.S.-German citizen has been arrested on charges that he traveled to Israel and attempted to firebomb the U.S. Embassy branch office in Tel Aviv.

Senate opposition led President Donald Trump to abandon his candidate to be the top prosecutor in the nation’s capital.

McDonald’s says it's closing down CosMc’s, a new restaurant format it began piloting in the U.S. last year.

We often show respect by displaying flags on Memorial Day, but many don’t know the special flag traditions and etiquette for the day.

Venezuelans are again finding themselves as pawns in their country’s political game.

U.S. homeowners are boosting spending on home renovation projects, bucking a broader pullback by consumers amid diminished confidence in the economy.

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba says that he spoke by telephone with U.S. President Donald Trump and agreed to hold “productive” discussions at an upcoming round of tariff talks between the two sides.

Brazilian meat giant JBS has come a step closer to its long-held goal of trading its shares on the New York Stock Exchange.

A woman who was able to sneak onto a flight from New York to Paris without a boarding pass last year has been convicted of a stowaway charge.

The Organization of American States is coming under pressure to help quash gang violence in Haiti as a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenyan police in the troubled Caribbean country struggles with a lack of funds and personnel.

A judge in California has blocked the Trump administration from terminating the legal status of international students nationwide while a court case challenging previous terminations plays out.

The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. climbed this week to its highest level since mid-February, a setback for home shoppers that threatens to slow sales further this spring homebuying season.

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in April, as elevated mortgage rates and rising prices discouraged prospective home shoppers during what’s traditionally the busiest time of the year for the housing market.

Stocks drifted to a mixed close on Wall Street in what has been a rocky week because of worries coming out of the bond market about the U.S. government’s mounting debt.

A person attended a Shakira concert at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey while infectious with measles.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered another review of the U.S. military’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, and of the suicide bombing at the Kabul airport that killed American troops and Afghans.

Christopher “Kit” Bond, a Republican who was Missouri’s youngest governor before serving four terms in the U.S. Senate, was remembered as a beloved statesman who helped train a generation of leaders.

President Donald Trump has announced the concept he wants for his future Golden Dome missile defense program — a multilayered system that for the first time will put U.S. weapons in space.

As tornadoes popped up from Kansas to Kentucky, a depleted National Weather Service was in scramble mode.

U.S. health officials are investigating a new outbreak of salmonella illnesses tied to a Florida grower whose tainted cucumbers were linked to more than 500 illnesses last year.

Home Depot doesn’t expect to raise prices because of tariffs, saying it has spent years diversifying the sources for the goods on its shelves.

Greece’s top diplomat says the world is facing the most turbulent time since World War II, pointing to a crossroads in democracy and saying Europe is facing a “political identity crisis.”.

U.S. stocks fell as momentum slowed for Wall Street after it rallied from a deep hole nearly all the way back to its all-time high set earlier this year.

Topping the agenda at President Donald Trump's meeting with South Africa's president at the White House this week is the extraordinary new U.S. refugee policy welcoming white Afrikaner farmers who the Trump administration claims are persecuted.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff offensive has led European officials have cut back their growth forecasts for this year and next, even in a best-case scenario in which the highest rates on most goods could be negotiated away.

Colorectal cancer is the fourth most common cancer in the U.S. and the second-leading cause of cancer death. So, what can you do to lower your risk?

More severe storms are expected to roll across the central U.S. this week following the weather-related deaths of more than two dozen people.

After recovering from an initial jolt, U.S. stocks drifted through quiet trading following the latest reminder that the U.

The Justice Department may drop its criminal prosecution of Boeing for allegedly misleading U.S. regulators about the 737 Max jetliner before two of the planes crashed and killed 346 people.

The fastest-growing city in the U.S. last year was a Dallas suburb that saw its population jump by nearly a third.

Fortnite says it’s unavailable on Apple’s iOS globally because the tech giant blocked a bid to rerelease the popular video game for iPhone users in the U.S. and Europe.

A Wisconsin judge accused of helping a man illegally evade immigration agents is seeking donations to fund her defense.

The first direct Russia-Ukraine peace talks since the early weeks of Moscow’s 2022 invasion ended after less than two hours.

Israel has launched dozens of airstrikes across Gaza -- attacks that local health officials say killed 108 people, mostly women and children, and which Israeli officials described as a prelude to a larger campaign to pressure Hamas to release hostages.

Defense officials say military commanders will be told to identify troops in their units who are transgender or have gender dysphoria, then send them to medical checks in order to force them out of the service.

The United Nations’ humanitarian chief has defended using the term “genocide” to describe what aid workers are trying to prevent in Gaza.

Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange based in the U.S., said Thursday that criminals had improperly obtained personal data on the exchange’s customers for use in crypto-stealing scams and were demanding a $20 million payment not to publicly release the info.

The Trump administration’s dismantling of USAID has put more than 8,000 health workers in South Africa’s national HIV program out of work.

U.S. wholesale prices dropped unexpectedly in April for the first time in more than a year despite President Donald Trump’s sweeping taxes on imports.

US Fed Chair Jerome H. Powell will speak at the Thomas Laubach Research Conference Thursday morning.

A Wisconsin judge accused of helping a man evade federal immigration agents has pleaded not guilty to federal charges.

President Donald Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa are scheduled to hold talks at the White House next week.

More than 2,000 Starbucks baristas at 120 U.S. stores have gone on strike since Sunday to protest a new company dress code.

A 2-year-old girl has arrived in Venezuela to reunite with her mother after she was separated from her parents when they were deported from the U.S. The South American country had denounced the move as a kidnapping.

President Donald Trump’s announcement that the U.S. will ease sanctions on Syria could eventually facilitate the country’s recovery from years of civil war and transform the lives of everyday Syrians.

President Donald Trump is urging Qatar to use its influence over Iran to persuade the country’s leadership to reach an agreement with the U.S. over its rapidly advancing nuclear program.

Online shoppers in the U.S. will see a price break on their purchases valued at less than $800 and shipped from China after the Trump administration reached a truce with Beijing over sky-high tariffs.

A federal judge says President Donald Trump can use the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan citizens who are shown to be members of the Tren de Aragua gang.

U.S. chip maker Nvidia will partner with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund-owned AI startup Humain and will ship 18,000 chips to the Middle Eastern nation to help power a new data center project.

A small nodule has been found in the prostate of former President Joe Biden during a routine physical exam.

A new poll finds about 3 in 10 U.S. adults follow women's sports at least “somewhat” closely, lower than the share who follow men's sports.

Democrats have long focused on immigration when courting Latino voters in states like Arizona, Nevada, New Jersey and Florida, where generations of Latin American immigrants have settled and gained permanent legal status.

Novak Djokovic is splitting with coach Andy Murray, just two weeks ahead of the French Open.

President Donald Trump is holding out Saudi Arabia as a model for a reimagined Middle East.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has described as “unfair” the decision by the Trump administration to suspend imports of Mexican beef cattle for 15 days due to the detection of screwworm in shipments.

Florida gas prices fell below $3 per gallon last week, according to a study by AAA. The state average dropped to $2.93 per gallon on Sunday. That’s the lowest daily average price since December 2023.

The new WWE U.S. Champion, Zelina Vega, discusses career and SummerSlam.

A global trade war is offering Puerto Rico hope as the island attempts to strengthen its fragile economy.