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Funerals are planned this week for some of the five police officers killed in an ambush last week during a downtown Dallas protest. President Obama and former President George W. Bush are speaking at an interfaith memorial Tuesday.

In the studio, the Beatles' longtime producer and arranger devised many of the band's signature sounds. He died Tuesday at age 90.

As Americans come out of a year of COVID-19 lockdowns, some are looking to travel abroad again. But they'd better check those passport expiration dates, since it takes time to get them renewed.

The nation is observing the birthday of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On Monday, there will be a ceremony at the new memorial on the National Mall. On Sunday, King's real birthday, his family, civil rights leaders and those who wanted to honor what he stood for, turned out to talk about his legacy.

The retrial of former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski and Chief Financial Officer Mark H. Swartz ends in convictions for both men on charges including grand larceny and stock fraud. They were accused of stealing more than $600 million from the company.

The government says the nation's unemployment rate hit 10.2 percent last month, the highest since 1983. Economists had expected the figure to rise to 9.9 percent.

Unlike other social media sites, Bluesky allows users to create their own algorithm. The site does not have ads, nor harvest data for artificial intelligence training. But it is still very small, and it does not make money.

Pinellas County officials believe the former Toytown landfill is suited to host youth sports tournaments.

Despite efforts by U.S. negotiators, Iran says it wants to charge a toll for ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. It's yet another unresolved issue of the U.S.-Iran war.

Journalist Jeroen van Bergeijk wanted an adventure, so he bought a 1988 clunker in his native Amsterdam and drove it across the Sahara with the intention of selling it. Within a week of arriving in Africa, he had dozens of offers. By then, however, he was attached to his vehicle and the possibilities it held.

Tucker Carlson trying to rewrite history on the Jan. 6 riots is exposing the government's limited ability to regulate distortions on cable news.

A new robot is designed to sink sargassum before the stinky seaweed comes ashore. Sargassum can wreck local economies, ecosystems — and even threaten human health, some research suggests.

The third album from the Canadian noise pop purveyors feels like a conversation between clarity and cacophony, creating an exhilarating tension.

The corrosive effect of inherited wealth is at the center of at least three prestige dramas, including HBO's new show, Succession, Showtime's Patrick Melrose and FX's drama about the Getty family, Trust.

The Affordable Care Act has had a profound impact on how money moves through Florida’s health care economy, according to a biennial market report out...

Heather Harper was overwhelmed with grief after the loss of her pregnancy. Then a woman at church said something that made her feel less alone.

We hear from Trump voters in Wisconsin, Missouri, and Colorado about what they think of the policies in the first 100 days of the Trump Presidency.

As the game of Scrabble turns 60, the business of Scrabble remains serious. Wall Street Journal sportswriter Stefan Fatsis, who chronicled the world of Scrabble in his book Word Freak, talks with Robert Siegel.

D.A. Mishani is the author of one of the few detective novels written in Hebrew. He talked to intern Lidia Jean Kott about why the genre has historically been unpopular in Israel and about the dangers of reading too much crime fiction.

Some came to share personal encounters with sasquatch. Others came to listen. An organizer says more than 2,000 people visited the conference, which featured a stage for speakers and about 45 vendors.

Caught up in the chaos of the last days of the U.S. engagement in Afghanistan, one former interpreter is getting back to the difficult task of creating a new life in his adopted country.

NPR's Scott Simon asks former Watergate assistant prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks what answers she's expecting from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.

New rules will require social media networks in the European Union to more closely monitor hate speech and other illegal content posted on their platforms.

In Idaho, milk can be sold more than 20 days after it's pasteurized. In Montana, it's just 12 days. The science is the same. But food dates are all over the place, and it leads to a lot of food waste.

FTX, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Friday. It took less than a week for the company, and its once-popular CEO, to wipe out financially.