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Tens of thousands of users reported outages in various Microsoft programs on Saturday, according to Downdetector.

How a weeklong, local celebration in California in 1978 turned into a monthlong, national observance less than a decade later.

Dallas police confirmed there was no active shooter after an incident in Downtown Dallas near the Omni Hotel and Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Saturday afternoon.

The designated survivor for a president’s address to Congress starts the day as a Cabinet secretary and ends it that way, too, God willing. But for a brief period, while the rest of the government is gathered together for a big event, like President Donald Trump’s joint congressional address Tuesday, a designated survivor is kept away to ensu...

Flu vaccine makers may face a last-minute scramble to produce enough doses after an FDA advisory committee meeting was abruptly canceled.

Trump’s efforts to drastically shrink the size of the federal government are running into legal roadblocks.

The former governor of New York announced a bid for a different office: this time he hopes to be the mayor of New York City.

Conan O’Brien is set to host the event, which airs Sunday on ABC at 7 p.m. ET.

The U.S. Forest Service has terminated $75 million awarded to the Arbor Day Foundation to help disadvantaged communities plant trees.

Some coffee shops in Canada have people perking up — and it’s not because of all the caffeine.

A FedEx cargo plan had to make an emergency landing at a busy New Jersey airport after a bird strike caused an engine fire that could be seen in the morning sky.

New changes at the U.S. Social Security Administration may put its ability to deliver monthly benefit checks at risk, former agency head says.

The White House said on Friday that the FBI had given President Donald Trump boxes stemming from a search of his Florida property for classified documents that were taken after Trump left office during his first term, NBC News reported.