U.S. & World

Retailers are ramping up hiring for the holidays, but fewer seasonal employees are expected to be taken on this year to help customers in stores and assemble online orders in warehouses.

The International Ski and Snowboard Federation has teamed up with the United Nations weather agency with winter sports facing a climate change crisis.

Thanks to a nearly $9 million settlement against Breyers Ice Cream, customers who bought its Natural Vanilla flavor in the past eight years may be eligible for cash payment.

GOP senators anticipate that in a second term, Trump would have at least one Supreme Court vacancy to fill. Democrats hope that prospect motivates their voters this fall.

In the midst of the devastating destruction left by the deadliest hurricane to hit the mainland U.S. since Katrina, human connections are giving the survivors hope in western North Carolina.

The Israeli military has warned people to evacuate a city and other communities in southern Lebanon that are north of a U.N.-declared buffer zone. The warning on Thursday signals that the military may widen a ground operation launched earlier this week.

A former Colorado county clerk is set to be sentenced Thursday for orchestrating a security breach of her elections computer system.

Omaha’s police chief says an officer followed protocol when he shot a fleeing armed man eight times, killing him.

Experts call it completely unnecessary, yet some are apparently unable to resist the urge to panic-buy right now.

The action broadens the scope of the U.S. effort to counter products from entering the country that the government says are tied to human rights abuses.

Pinang Island is a rustic eco-resort that opened two years ago in Indonesia. But traveling to the remote island often requires three flights and a boat ride.

The Aug. 8, 2023, blaze — the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century — emerged in the afternoon in the same area as the blaze that began early that morning.

Stephanie Lazarus had previously been found suitable for parole in the 1986 killing of Sherri Rasmussen.