U.S. & World

Levi Strauss created fan buzz on Monday after teasing a future collaboration with Beyoncé through a post on Instagram.

The past week has seen a dizzying escalation in the nearly yearlong conflict between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah. First came exploding pagers and walkie-talkies that maimed Hezbollah fighters and civilians around Lebanon and were blamed on Israel. Hezbollah’s leader vowed to retaliate. On Friday, the militant group launched dozens of rockets int...

Luis Armando Albino was 6 years old in 1951 when he was abducted while playing at an Oakland, California, park. Now, more than seven decades later, Albino has been found thanks to help from an online ancestry test, old photos and newspaper clippings.

Armorion Smith’s mother died in August and without a father in his family’s life, he became head of the household while studying and playing college football.

The Pentagon says the U.S. is sending additional troops to the Middle East in response to a sharp spike in violence between Israel and Hezbollah forces in Lebanon that is raising the risk of a greater regional war.

Violent crime was down about 3% from 2022 to 2023 and property crime took a similar drop of 2.4%, the FBI reported in its annual “Summary of Crime in the Nation.” The most serious crimes went down significantly: Murder and non-negligent manslaughter were down an estimated 11.6% — the largest single year decline in two decades — while ra...

Officials in Birmingham, Alabama, have made no arrests after Saturday’s shooting. Police described it as a targeted “hit” by multiple shooters who opened fire outside a popular nightspot in Birmingham’s Five Points South district.

Americans will be able to order up to four COVID-19 nasal swab tests free of charge starting later this month. Here’s how you can order.

A woman was rescued after a crash left a Porsche SUV dangling from the third floor of a parking garage in Coral Gables on Monday, officials said.

Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, was charged with two gun crimes after his Sept. 15 arrest. He appeared in Florida court Monday and was ordered to be held pending trial.

Two new reports provide a mixed but compelling outlook on the wave of book removals and challenges as the annual Banned Books Week begins for schools, stores and libraries nationwide.

An American woman who went missing while on a hike on Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa has died and her body has been recovered, authorities said on Monday.

The increasing strikes and counterstrikes have raised fears of all-out war, even as Israel battles Hamas in Gaza and tries to negotiate the release of scores of hostages taken in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack. Hezbollah has vowed to continue its strikes in solidarity with Hamas, a fellow Iran-backed militant group.