U.S.

What’s NewThe median age in the United States reached a record high of 38.9 in 2022, according to data released Thursday by the Census Bureau.It’s a rapid rise. In 2000, the median...

President Biden has declared “the battle between democracy and autocracy” to be the defining struggle of his time. But when he rolls out the red carpet on the South Lawn of the...

For three years, the U.S. government has been tied in knots over the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, frustrated that China’s hindrance of investigations and unwillingness to look critically at its own...

The British businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his son, Suleman, 19, are aboard the missing submersible, according to a statement from the Engro Corporation, based in Karachi, Pakistan.The elder Mr. Dawood, a...

What’s NewLike the results of recent tests of younger students, the math and reading performance of 13-year-olds in the United States has hit the lowest level in decades, according to test scores...

Stockton Rush, the chief executive of OceanGate Expeditions and one of the five occupants of the submersible missing this week in the North Atlantic, has advocated for deep-seas tourism in the face...

Paul-Henri Nargeolet, a French maritime expert who has been on over 35 dives to the Titanic wreck site, is one of the five people aboard the submersible that has been missing since...

In the year since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, one of the country’s most emotionally charged issues has come to be defined by two seemingly contradictory political realities.In competitive general...

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, took his campaign into the backyard of his most vocal Democratic critic on Monday, courting donors at an event...

At least one person was killed and 19 others were injured after a tornado slammed central Mississippi overnight, the authorities said.A tornado struck the town of Louin, about 70 miles east of...