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Thanks to its latest decision on Wednesday – its final one for 2025 – the Federal Reserve has now reduced its key overnight ...

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests.

One person is dead and another injured after a shooting at Kentucky State University upended students’ final exams of the semester before they go on winter break, police said.

The Fed said Wednesday afternoon it is trimming its benchmark lending rate by a quarter point, its third such reduction this year. Follow along as Chair Jerome Powell discusses the move.

British photographer Mark Meth-Cohn had spent four days trekking through the Virunga mountains in Rwanda in search of gorillas when his patience and determination finally paid off.

The parliamentary probe, ordered after the embarrassing Oct. 19 heist, found that only one of two cameras covering the break-in point was functioning and that security staff lacked enough screens to ...

Eileen Higgins will be the next mayor of the city of Miami, breaking a nearly 30-year Republican streak in holding the nonpartisan seat and giving Democrats another example of strong performance in ...

At 13, Gracie Muehlberger wrote a handful of hopeful letters to her future self. Her parents found them in her room, weeks after she was killed in a school shooting in California.

In our roundup of travel news this week: the world’s top 100 cities for 2025, the world’s best hotels, the world’s tallest hotel, the world’s longest, deepest, undersea rail tunnel, plus two new ...

President Donald Trump has a few tried-and-true rhetorical strategies. He invokes what “many people are saying” when he needs to make an unsubstantiated claim. He riffs on nicknames for his political ...

The testimony of Gem Mutlu – a close friend of Ana Walshe’s who said he considered her family his own – came hours before prosecutors on Wednesday rested their case.