The Chronicle of Philanthropy's annual list of the biggest charitable donations from individuals or their foundations totaled $5 billion in 2025. Topping the list was $2 billion from Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife, Penny, followed by a $746.7 million donation from Warren Buffett and a $500 million pledge from the mother and stepfather of Amazon ...

An on-duty Customs and Border Protection officer fired his weapon several times on a freeway leading to New York's main airport after he said another driver attacked him over a minor traffic crash, Port Authority police said.

A recent survey finds a 22% drop in holiday hosting budgets this year as Americans expect the economy to weaken in 2026. Consumers plan to spend less on decor and hosting essentials, and trade elaborate spreads for cozy, creative celebrations that prioritize value, simplicity and togetherness.

A recent Numerator study finds 87% of Americans plan to celebrate Christmas. Three-fourths of those mark the holiday by gathering with family and friends, either on Dec. 25 or on Christmas Eve. For millions of Italian-Americans, the evening meal before the birth of the Christ child is an often elaborate meal called the Feast of the Seven Fishes.

The Powerball jackpot jumped from $1 billion to $1.25 billion after nobody got the winning numbers during Monday's drawing.

Residents near a breached levee in Washington state were told to evacuate early Tuesday, just hours after an evacuation alert was lifted for residents near another broken levee in the same county.

Wall Street inched slightly lower early Tuesday ahead of the release of U.S. employment and inflation reports that could drive the direction of interest rates.

Los Angeles police are set to present a case to prosecutors Tuesday following Nick Reiner's arrest in the killings of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, which stunned their communities in Hollywood and Democratic politics, where both were widely beloved.

Starting Tuesday, the U.S. Capitol will display a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school, a pointed replacement for a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was removed several years ago.

Authorities knocked on doors in search of video and sifted through snow and dumpsters for other evidence that might lead them to the Brown University gunman, whose face was covered or not visible in footage captured before and after the weekend attack that killed two students and wounded nine others.

Anthony Geary, who rose to fame in the 1970s and '80s as half the daytime TV super couple Luke and Laura on "General Hospital," has died. He was 78.

The Powerball jackpot has grown to an estimated $1.25 billion for Wednesday night's drawing after lottery officials said no ticket matched all six numbers drawn Monday night.

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz says he wants restrictions on military flights approved before government funding runs out at the end of next month to prevent another midair collision like the one over Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people in January.

Hotels are reopening on the Grand Canyon National Park's South Rim on Wednesday after the park halted overnight accommodations for over a week due to water-line breaks, the park said Monday.

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up a legal battle out of Mississippi in which a prosecutor is alleged to have excluded Black jurors in a trial to win a death sentence against an 18-year-old Black murder defendant.

UPS stole tens of millions of dollars in pay from seasonal workers who help the shipping giant deliver packages during the busy holiday season, forcing some to clock in well after their shifts started and deducting pay for lunch breaks they never took, New York Attorney General Letitia James alleged in a lawsuit Monday.

One baby Jesus lies in a manger in the snow, wrapped in a silver emergency blanket with his wrists zip-tied. Mary stands nearby outside the Lake Street Church in Evanston, Illinois, wearing a plastic gas mask and flanked by Roman soldiers in tactical vests labeled "ICE."

Leading Jewish groups in the United States are urging all Jewish organizations to ratchet up security measures at public events - including restrictions on access - following the deadly mass shooting that targeted a Hanukkah celebration on a popular Australian beach.

The home of Tennessee Titans defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons was burglarized while he was on the road in San Francisco, the team said Monday.

Federal authorities on Monday said they foiled a planned New Year's Eve bombing in Los Angeles that was schemed up by members of a pro-Palestinian extremist group.

A school bus rear-ended another as it was picking up kids on a rural eastern Idaho highway Monday morning, sending four students and both drivers to the hospital, authorities said.

Officials ordered immediate evacuations in three south Seattle suburbs Monday after a levee failed following a week of heavy rains.

Brian Walshe was found guilty Monday of killing his wife, whose body has never been found after she disappeared from their Massachusetts home on New Year's Day nearly three years ago.

The two Iowa National Guard members killed in a weekend attack that the U.S. military blamed on the Islamic State group in Syria were identified Monday.

Authorities in Providence, Rhode Island, resumed on Monday their search for the gunman who carried out the deadly weekend shooting at Brown University after a person of interest in the case was released from police custody.