Billie Eilish released "Hit Me Hard and Soft," her first album in nearly three years.

Lainey Wilson was named Entertainer of the Year and won two other Academy of Country Music Awards at a gala Thursday at The Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas.

Authorities arrested 12 pro-Palestinian demonstrators on Thursday after they allegedly took control of a vacant building near the University of California Berkeley campus on Wednesday.

Nikola Jokic said he didn't want the Denver Nuggets to forget their 45-point blowout setback to the Minnesota Timberwolves in Game 6 of the Western Conference semifinals, urging teammates to learn from "a great loss."

The first trucks carrying more than 500 tons of humanitarian assistance began rolling off a U.S.-built floating causeway on the Gaza shore Friday morning, the American military said.

As millions of commuters in Seoul crowd onto subways or sit in rush hour traffic every morning, Kim Eun-beom heads to a very different workplace just 60 miles away: the Hantang River, where he'll go fishing.

TikTok's lawsuit against the U.S. government will task the federal court system with considering national security interests and First Amendment rights.

Kirby told UPI that her "Sugar" character, Ruby, is a complicated and mysterious woman whose professional partnership with the titular detective evolves over the course of the show's first season.

French police early Friday fatally shot an armed suspect about to set fire to a synagogue in the city of Rouen, officials said.

On May 17, 1954, in a major civil rights victory, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kan., ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.

Actor/model Karrueche Tran turns 36 and dancer Derek Hough turns 39, among the famous birthdays for May 17.

Four people are dead after strong storms hammered the Houston area on Thursday, officials said as they warned the public to stay home.

Authorities have seized 10 pounds of the hallucinogenic drug Ketamine disguised as plastic children's toys at the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol announced Thursday.

The status and location of a Chinese blogger who was imprisoned for her coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak remained unknown Thursday, five days after she was to be released from a Shanghai prison.

NASA and the European Space Agency will search together for signs of life on Mars, the U.S. space administration announced Thursday.

Xander Schauffele carded nine birdies en route to a record score of 62 to take the first-round lead at the 2024 PGA Championship on Thursday in Louisville, Ky.

The U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday announced major expansions of its migrant workers websites.

A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a Dominican foreign national to 15 years in prison for participating in an international conspiracy to smuggle hundreds of kilos of cocaine into the United States.

Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe gathered to discuss Ukraine's defensive needs on May 16, 2024

Seven key members of the Sinaloa drug cartel have been sentenced to prison for taking part in a fentanyl, methamphetamine, and cocaine trafficking conspiracy, the Justice Department announced Thursday.

Leaders at the 33rd Arab League summit on Thursday condemned the Israeli offensive in Gaza and called for the "immediate" withdrawal of forces from the region.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday pardoned Daniel Perry who had been sentenced to 25 years in prison for murdering a Black Lives Matter protester in 2020.

The remake of "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead" is now streaming on BET+ after opening in theaters April 12.

A Canadian man combined his love of Lego and Star Wars by building the 75,192-piece Millennium Falcon in a record-breaking time of 7 hours, 36 minutes and 37 seconds.

Boeing parts supplier Spirit AeroSystems said Thursday it will lay off up to 450 workers due to a slowdown in Boeing plane deliveries.