Congress passed a bill cutting $9 billion in spending for NPR, PBS and foreign aid, sending it to Donald Trump's desk to sign into law.

Nicholas McCarthy overcame rejection to make a professional career playing the surprisingly vast repertoire for left-hand piano.

Texas archaeologist couple Arlen and Diane Chase uncovered the 4th-century tomb of Te' K'ab Chaak, the earliest ruler of Caracol, a major Mayan city in Belize. The feat took 40 years of research.

Dayton Munson and Emily Orozco hit it off over Bumble, then over a series of restaurant dates.

Ernie Apreza and Kyle Labarry were looking for community in a new city when they first met 10 years ago. Along the way, they found love.

Aleksandra Dubov and Daniyel Berchenko were stargazing in the California desert when Ms. Dubov asked him a direct question.

It took Ellenore Scott, a Broadway choreographer, three months to reply to Trey Everett, a writer and musician. It only took a week to fall in love.

Quotation of the Day for Friday, July 18, 2025.

Trump said the letter the Wall Street Journal alleged he wrote to Epstein was a ‘fake’ and that he plans to sue the publication owned by Rupert Murdoch – key US politics stories from 17 July 2025Growing pressure on the Trump administration has prompted the US president to direct his attorney general...

The State Department is pulling back from commenting on or criticizing elections overseas unless there's a clear and compelling U.S. foreign policy interest in doing so

A SkyWest flight landed in Cedar Rapids, Michigan, on Thursday evening due to an unruly passenger, according to authorities.

The alert, issued to retired service members who served in Iraq or Syria and are living in Florida, did not specify what kind of threat or which terrorist group was involved.

A man suspected in the disappearance of his then-girlfriend and recently extradited from California to Oregon has been arraigned on a murder charge stemming from the 1980s cold case

The journalist Will Sommer examines the perfect storm of the Epstein files, Trump, QAnon and MAGA.

The House Rules Committee laid the groundwork for an eventual vote to call for release of the Epstein files, reflecting Republican uneasiness with the president’s refusal to divulge information from the investigation.

Many questioned the timing of and motivation for the announcement, noting that Mr. Colbert hosted the most-watched show in late night television.

In the last two months, dozens of Russian regions have been hit by cellphone connectivity outages

The Kennedy School will award scholarships to at least 50 students, in hopes of fostering careers in government service.

The five-member K-pop group 1VERSE is debuting Friday, with two North Korean defectors alongside members from the United States and Japan

Members of Syria's Druze community are searching for loved ones and counting their dead after days of clashes in a southern province that left bloodied bodies of civilians on the streets and homes looted