"She showed me what it is to be a hero," he said at a news conference.

Tesla’s Cybertruck, the hulking, stainless-steel pickup that inspired devotion and derision with its science-fiction looks, will cease production next year

The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Pena has formed in the Pacific Ocean

Residents are cleaning up from catastrophic flooding along the Tennessee-Georgia border that forecasters are calling a once-in-a-1,000 year event

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has met with nonprofits in Puerto Rico as officials announced a $280,000 partnership to help the U.S. territory confront emergencies

Former NFL star Antonio Brown has pleaded guilty to aggravated assault with a firearm in connection with a 2025 shooting in Miami

Two iconic rock formations that long attracted tourists and photographers to a remote part of New Mexico have collapsed

Closing arguments are set to begin in the case of a former Massachusetts police officer accused of killing a pregnant woman to keep her from revealing they had an illicit sexual relationship when she was 15

Pope Leo XIV is returning home to the continent where he spent two decades as a missionary priest and learned to be a pastor, visiting Uruguay, Argentina and his second homeland of Peru

Matthew Martinez has lived nearly all his 60 years on a piece of property on the Navajo River and never saw severe flooding until now

Four men named in a former Cornell University student’s lawsuit are joining a co-defendant’s effort to block New York’s attorney general from leading a reopened criminal investigation into the woman’s gang rape allegations

Catcher Bo Naylor, a former teammate of Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz, says he didn’t know gamblers could place bets on individual pitches until the criminal case against the pitchers arose

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he’ll change all death sentences in the state to life in prison without the possibility of parole

Authorities say a female postal employee shot two colleagues at the main post office in Iowa’s capital city before being captured nearby

Paraguay President Santiago Peña resigns following bank collapse

An envoy to Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke at a White House event celebrating a temporary ceasefire in Oleshky brokered by Melania Trump

A fire in a two-story home in New York has killed six people and injured seven others

Thunderstorms with heavy rain have caused record flooding in two towns straddling the Georgia-Tennessee border

Bank of England raises main interest rate a quarter point to 4% as Iran war stokes inflation

World shares are mostly higher though heavy selling of artificial intelligence-related stocks offset gains for some markets following the U.S. midterm elections

An Indiana man who admitted killing his girlfriend's two young children in a house fire has been executed in the first of three lethal injections scheduled for the same day in the U.S. Jeffrey Weisheit's time of death was 12:45 a.m. Thursday

Authorities are still trying to piece together how a convicted murderer in Tennessee evaded capture for more than a week

3M has agreed to pay up to $7.35 billion to settle lawsuits over groundwater contamination from potentially harmful chemicals in firefighting foam and other products

Emergency crews responded to an explosion at a chemical plant in Mississippi that sent a large plume of black smoke into the air

Authorities say the two Colorado college students whose bodies were recovered last week died when an anchor they were using to climb failed and they fell a “substantial distance."