U.S. & World

A Florence museum is inviting parents and students from a Florida charter school to visit and see Michelangelo’s “David” following parental complaints that the nude Renaissance masterpiece was shown to a sixth-grade art class.

Tens of thousands of Israelis have poured into the streets across the country in a spontaneous outburst of anger after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu abruptly fired his defense minister for challenging the Israeli leader’s judicial overhaul plan. Protesters in Tel Aviv blocked a main highway and lit large bonfires Sunday, while police scuffled w...

On the one side are dozens of lawmakers on Capitol Hill issuing dire warnings about security breaches and possible Chinese surveillance. On the other are some 150 million TikTok users in the U.S.

President Joe Biden’s choice to run the Federal Aviation Administration has withdrawn his nomination.

There’s a special chance this week to see five planets lined up in the night sky.

Help began pouring into one of the poorest regions of the U.S. after a deadly tornado tore a path of destruction in Mississippi even as furious new storms struck Georgia.

Residents of rural Mississippi have recounted harrowing tales of survival after a deadly tornado tore through the state Friday night.

The actor Jonathan Majors was arrested Saturday in New York on charges of strangulation, assault and harassment after a domestic dispute.

Gordon Moore, the Intel Corp. co-founder who set the breakneck pace of progress in the digital age with a simple 1965 prediction of how quickly engineers would boost the capacity of computer chips, has died.

The Cook County Jail is one of several lockups where voting rights advocates have worked with local election and jail officials to offer voting for those held there.

“Aaannnnnd now you’re on a list,” joked one user on Twitter.

The body of Rebecca Bliefnick was found by a family member inside her home after she failed to pick up her children from school.

An asteroid big enough to wipe out a city will zip harmlessly between Earth and the moon’s orbit this weekend. Saturday’s close encounter will offer astronomers the chance to study a space rock from just over 100,000 miles away. That’s less than half the distance from here to the moon. While asteroid flybys are common, NASA says a big one......