U.S. & World

A Secret Service special agent protecting U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen opened fire early Tuesday on people who were suspected to be trying to break into cars, authorities say.

Lesley Albert helped plant a tree in her yard nearly 60 years ago. It will now stand in Rockefeller Center in her honor. Here’s the heartwarming story of how it happened.

The woman boarded a Nov. 26 Delta flight without a boarding pass and after bypassing two “identity verification and boarding status stations,” TSA said.

Kash Patel has been well-known for years within Donald Trump’s orbit as a loyal supporter who shares the president-elect’s skepticism of the FBI and intelligence community. But he’s receiving fresh attention, from the public and from Congress, now that Trump has selected him to lead the FBI. As he braces for a bruising and likely protracted Senate ...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said early Wednesday that he would soon lift the military rule he imposed overnight, after the parliament voted to reject his martial law declaration.

“I know you’re a criminal, but maybe just do something nice because it’s Christmas,” Tommy Banks said.

Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral has some surprising stories to tell before it reopens this weekend after five years of restoration.

Israel has unleashed its largest wave of airstrikes across Lebanon since agreeing to a ceasefire with Hezbollah last week, killing at least 11 people.

Three mountain climbers from the United States and Canada are missing after they did not return from their planned summit of New Zealand’s tallest mountain, Aoraki, officials said Tuesday.

A mystery is unfolding over a single Olive Garden breadstick.

A 47-year-oldFlorida woman has been sentenced to life in prison for zipping her boyfriend into a suitcase and leaving him to die of suffocation amid a history of domestic and alcohol abuse.

The Senate voted Monday to approve the promotion of a general who oversaw troops during the U.S. withdrawal from Kabul, Afghanistan, after it had been blocked by a Republican senator.

President-elect Donald Trump will attend the reopening celebration for Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris this weekend, his first foreign trip since the election.