The rapper known as Rod Wave faces more than a dozen charges — some involving a gun — after he turned himself in to sheriff’s officials in Georgia on Tuesday

The Pentagon says Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has accepted a gifted Boeing 747 from Qatar for President Donald Trump to use as Air Force One

A Massachusetts college student will plead guilty to stealing millions of students' and teachers' private data from two U.S. education tech companies and extorting it for ransom

The head of Columbia University alluded to the detention of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil during a commencement speech Wednesday that drew loud boos and chants of “free Palestine” from graduating students

President Donald Trump is hosting South African President Cyril Ramaphosa for White House talks at a moment when relations between the two countries are at a nadir

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is considering approval of a black bear hunt for December and into the future, which could eventually allow the use of up to six dogs to corner the bears and use of bowhunting

The Trump administration says it will consider selling leases to extract minerals from the seabed off the South Pacific island of American Samoa

A former New York state trooper has pleaded guilty to charges that he shot himself then falsely claimed he was wounded by an unknown gunman on a Long Island highway

The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to block court orders requiring Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to turn over documents about its operations to a government watchdog group

House Republicans are getting closer to passing President Donald Trump’s tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up border security

The United States has imposed sanctions on two members of the Mexican drug trafficking organization Cartel del Noreste, the Northeast Cartel, which was formerly known as Los Zetas

The Justice Department has moved to cancel settlements with Minneapolis and Louisville, Kentucky, that called for an overhaul of policing following the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor

A South Carolina inmate whose best friend and four other inmates have been put to death in less than a year appears to want to die himself

The militaries of the U.S. and Philippines have carried out joint drills in waters adjacent to the South China Sea claimed by Beijing

A federal judge has ordered U.S. officials to appear at an emergency hearing to answer questions about their apparent deportation of immigrants to South Sudan and other countries

It's not easy being an amphibian

House Republicans are grinding out last-minute deal-making to shore up wavering GOP support and deliver on Trump’s top legislative priority, a multi-trillion-dollar tax breaks package, as soon as Wednesday

A group of foundations are recognizing nonprofits and individuals with a new award for “civic bravery,” that includes grants of up to $50,000

Wisconsin could go down as billionaire Elon Musk’s last big spend on a political campaign

Oscar Smith came within minutes of being executed before Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee issued a surprise reprieve just over three years ago

The U.S. Senate is moving forward with an effort to block California's nation-leading standards for vehicle emissions

U.S. wildlife officials want to add a rare Nevada fish to the list of endangered species

Half of U.S. states now have laws banning or regulating cellphones in schools, with more likely to follow

A Mexican navy tall ship’s fatal collision with the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday highlighted a hazard that has worried seafarers for nearly 150 years

A federal judge has dismissed part of a lawsuit that accused police in New Mexico of violating constitutional protections against unreasonable searches and seizures when they fatally shot a man after showing up at the wrong address

South Africa's finance minister says the country doesn’t have the funds to cover the over $430 million shortfall caused by the Trump administration’s cuts in foreign aid

The United States once cheered the creation of South Sudan as an independent nation

A woman and a child have died on an attempted illicit overnight sea crossing from France to Britain

The Omega gym in Rome is frequented by residents of the up-market Prati district, plus priests, nuns and monsignors from nearby Vatican City

An expert mountain guide has put four of his clients on top of Mount Everest less than a week after they left London, one of the fastest ascents on record of the world’s highest peak

A British judge has ordered Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown released on $6.7 million bail while facing allegations that he beat and seriously injured a music producer in a London nightclub in 2023

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has suggested that an unpopular measure which deprived millions of retirees of an annual winter fuel subsidy will be changed

During Syria’s civil war, protecting the revered Sayyida Zeinab shrine was a rallying cry for some Shiite fighters and groups from beyond the country’s borders backing then-President Bashar Assad

Iran’s top diplomat is insisting that Tehran will never stop enriching uranium, further underlining the Islamic Republic’s red line in negotiations with the United States over its rapidly advancing nuclear program

Thai officials on Wednesday vowed to tighten regulations on sales of cannabis after cases of tourists attempting to smuggle the drug out of the country soared in recent months

State media reports that Iran has executed a man who carried out a 2023 attack on the Azerbaijan Embassy in Tehran, killing its security chief and wounding two others in an incident that escalated tensions between the neighboring nations

The world’s supplies of critical minerals are increasingly concentrated in just a few countries - most notably China - and subject to export restrictions that could painfully crimp industry and the shifter to greener ways of making things based on elec...

Inflation in the U.K. spiked to its highest level for more than a year in April amid higher domestic bills such as energy and water

UK police say a third suspect has been charged with arson over a series of fires targeting property linked to Prime Minister Keir Starmer

The military rulers of Burkina Faso have turned to a man once known as “Africa’s Che Guevara” as a way to rally a country struggling to defeat extremists and turning away from former Western allies

Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited the Kursk region for the first time since Russia said it expelled Ukrainian forces from the area in April

German police have arrested five teenagers on accusations of involvement with a far-right group that calls itself “Last Defense Wave” and allegedly aims to destabilize Germany’s democratic system by carrying out attacks on migrants and political opponents

Officials say that a suicide car bomber struck a school bus in restive southwestern Pakistan, killing at least four children and wounding 38 others

A suicide car bomb hits a school bus in restive southwestern Pakistan, killing 4 children and wounding 38, officials say

U.S. President Donald Trump will host South Africa’s leader at the White House for a meeting that might be tense

The United Nations human rights office in Colombia says that five Indigenous groups in northern Colombia’s storied mountain range face “physical and cultural” extinction

Japan’s agriculture minister has resigned after making an inappropriate remark about buying rice

A pack of veterinarians clamber over hefty metal crates of animals they load one-by-one onto a fleet of semi-trucks

The hard-right nationalist who lost Romania’s presidential election rerun says he has asked a top court to annul the election results

The European Union plans to provide emergency funds to help keep Radio Free Europe afloat after the Trump administration stopped grants to the pro-democracy media outlet

The president is barred from being elected more than twice by the Constitution.

Here’s what Colorado Gov. Jared Polis is telling fellow governors about when to work with Trump and when to oppose him.

He received a standing ovation in some of the most raucous applause at the gathering.

The one-time Biden adviser is reclaiming her seat atop one of the most influential liberal think tanks.

We're relaunching one of our signature products to capture this historical moment. West Wing Playbook: Remaking Government.

The occasionally contrarian Democratic governor said government could be more efficient — but Elon Musk’s DOGE is butchering it.

The Kentucky governor said his party wasn’t using ‘normal language’ in an interview during POLITICO’s Governors Summit.

The Trump administration's immigration crackdown, combative trade policies and spending cuts create challenges for state executives.

Trump in his first weeks of his second term has targeted the city like few presidents before him.

The Democratic response to Trump, one Texas lawmaker said, is “too slow and too tepid and not meeting the moment.”

The legal complaint marks yet another challenge to the sweeping access and authority granted to the so-called Department of Government Efficiency.

Conservatives won the culture war by riding the backlash to Black Lives Matter protests.

Biden cut off access to briefings for Trump in 2021.

Ellen Weintraub has served on the commission since 2002.

POLITICO has been the subject of debate on X this week. Some of it has been misinformed, and some of it has been flat-out false. Let’s set the record straight.

The billionaire's strategy of moving fast and breaking things isn't going over so well with the public.

Half of U.S. states now have laws banning or regulating cellphones in schools, with more likely to follow

Google on Tuesday unleashed another wave of artificial intelligence technology to accelerate a year-old makeover of its search engine that is changing the way people get information and curtailing the flow of internet traffic to websites

Hong Kong-traded shares in CATL, the world’s largest maker of batteries for electric vehicles, have jumped after the company raised around $4.6 billion in the biggest initial public offering globally this year

The Senate has voted to move forward with legislation to regulate a form of cryptocurrency called stablecoins, two weeks after Democrats blocked the measure

President Donald Trump has signed the Take It Down Act into law

Scientists have found evidence of monkey kidnappings in Panama

Health agencies working under Robert F

President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to overhaul how U.S. elections are run includes a somewhat obscure reference to the way votes are counted

The Indian space agency’s mission to launch into orbit a new Earth observation satellite has failed after the launch vehicle encountered a technical issue during the third stage of flight

President Donald Trump’s abrupt firing of top officials at the Library of Congress and equally sudden attempt to appoint a slate of loyalists as replacements has morphed into an enormous fight over the separation of powers

Fortnite says it’s unavailable on Apple’s iOS globally because the tech giant blocked a bid to rerelease the popular video game for iPhone users in the U.S. and Europe

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, says an “unauthorized modification” led its Grok chatbot to post unsolicited claims on social media about the persecution and “genocide” of white people in South Africa

European Union regulators say they’ll seek feedback on Microsoft’s latest proposed changes to Teams to ease competition concerns

Charter Communications is merging with Cox Communications in an approximately $34.5 billion deal that brings together two of the biggest cable companies in the country

The internet wouldn’t be the same without the Like button, the thumbs-up icon that Facebook and other online services turned into digital catnip

A 29-year-old former tire shop manager who quit his job and cashed in his retirement savings to buy a sailboat has become a social media sensation as he sails from Oregon to Hawaii with his cat, Phoenix

Fans and VIPs can fly their way to venues at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics with the first air taxis ever to be used at a games

A baby born with a rare and dangerous genetic disease is thriving after getting an experimental gene editing treatment made just for him

All of a sudden, women contacting one of the biggest sources of information about abortion in Mexico through the encrypted messaging app WhatsApp were met with silence

Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange based in the U.S., said Thursday that criminals had improperly obtained personal data on the exchange’s customers for use in crypto-stealing scams and were demanding a $20 million payment not to publicly re...

China has taken aim at a new U.S. rule against use anywhere in the world of Ascend computer chips made by Huawei Technologies

European Union regulators are accusing TikTok of breaching digital safety rules because of because it’s not being transparent enough about ads shown to users of the video sharing app

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte says the organization’s procurement agency is cooperating with police investigating corruption and fraud allegations involving the purchase of military equipment

A social media influencer has been shot to death while doing a TikTok livestream at a beauty salon in the central Mexican state of Jalisco

A new study shows two species of early human ancestors used their hands for both climbing and tool-making

New recordings, and a golf ball “striking” Bruce Springsteen

The spirit of Indiana Jones is baked into the essence of the new movie “Fountain of Youth.”

Nine-time Grammy nominee and five-time GMA Dove Awards Female Vocalist of the Year Natalie Grant will perform the national anthem before the Indianapolis 500

Cardi B is no stranger to ASCAP accolades with another prestigious honor soon to join her trophy case

A British judge has ordered Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown released on $6.7 million bail while facing allegations that he beat and seriously injured a music producer in a London nightclub in 2023

Two giants of the women’s rights movement, Gloria Steinem and Nobel laureate Leymah Gbowee, have teamed up for a picture book with the mission of inspiring young people to change the world

Some of Spike Lee’s most deeply felt passions — filmmaking and the New York Knicks — have collided at the Cannes Film Festival

Rapper and actor Kid Cudi is expected to testify at the Sean “Diddy” Combs sex trafficking trial

Police have found a bust of Jim Morrison that was stolen nearly four decades ago from the Paris grave that has long been a place of pilgrimage for fans of the legendary Doors singer and poet

The European Union plans to provide emergency funds to help keep Radio Free Europe afloat after the Trump administration stopped grants to the pro-democracy media outlet

Bruce Springsteen and Donald Trump aren't new foes

CBS News CEO Wendy McMahon says she's quitting

Netflix has thrown “Sesame Street” a safety net with a new streaming deal

A man who tried to help a burglar cash in from the theft of a gold toilet was spared prison on Monday after a British judge said he had been taken advantage of by the thieves

Denzel Washington sandwiched a whirlwind trip to the Cannes Film Festival in between Broadway performances for the premiere of Spike Lee’s “Highest 2 Lowest” and was rewarded with a surprise honorary Palme d'Or

Gary Lineker, the former England soccer player and now a media celebrity, will step down from his role as a presenter for the BBC after facing criticism for reposting an Instagram story about Zionism which featured a picture of a rat

This year’s winners of the Gotham Book Prize celebrate New York City as experienced on foot, bus and train

“Final Destination: Bloodlines” has topped the domestic box office charts this weekend

Rapper Werenoi, France’s biggest-selling music artist in recent years, has died at the age of 31

Austrians were getting ready to welcome back home and celebrate classically trained countertenor JJ, who has won the 69th Eurovision Song Contest with his pop-opera song “Wasted Love.”

Scarlett Johansson has hosted “Saturday Night Live” and set a record in a reflective end to the NBC sketch show's 50th season

Stars in glamorous gowns often peacock on the Cannes Film Festival red carpet, but one attendee Saturday night literally came as a bird

With remarkable regularity, Anderson has been crafting movies uniquely his own since his 1996 debut, “Bottle Rocket.”

Ex-NFL star Antonio Brown says he was briefly detained by police following an altercation in which gunshots were fired outside Adin Ross’ celebrity boxing event in Miami

The world’s largest live music event has reached its glitter-drenched conclusion with the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest

WebMD brought together experts from four federal agencies to talk prevention, monitoring, and what the “what ifs” of bird flu might look like.

As WebMD’s chief medical officer, John Whyte, MD, is in a unique position to see both the current state of medical care for America’s older adults and the way things are trending for the future. We asked him to share his insight on a few topics, along with a bit of advice.

What to expect at the doctor’s office, hospitals, and long-term care facilities, the future of telemedicine, and how to get the best care during COVID-19.

A savvy black entrepreneur guides you on an eczema-friendly shopping spree.

Colorectal cancer cases increased a whopping 333% among 15- to 19-year-olds and 185% among 20- to 24-year-olds from 1999 to 2020.

Schizophrenia caregiver support is essential to avoid burnout. Learn how to build a support network when you're a mental-health caregiver.

Schizophrenia treatment is tricky when your loved one resists it. Learn ways to help someone with schizophrenia stick with their treatment plan.

Is it time for a change in your loved one's schizophrenia treatment? Learn the signs caregivers should watch for.

If you’re a schizophrenia caregiver, communication with your loved one's doctors is important. Learn how to stay in the loop.

The American College of Lifestyle Medicine and Blue Zones will soon offer a new clinical certification to physicians and health professionals.

If you have two copies of the APOE4 gene, new research suggests that you’re very likely to develop Alzheimer’s. Experts break down the findings and share what you can do to lower your risk.

The virus variant that is circulating among cattle is not an efficient cause of disease in humans. There may be more concern if H5N1 passes to pigs, because their viral receptors are closer to those in humans.

Three women with eczema describe how they combat nighttime flare-ups.

Two moms reveal the great lengths they went to in their determination to give their children relief and good health.

Three keys to managing your eczema at the gym and then heading off to a productive and itch-free workday.

Cow udders have the same receptors for flu viruses as humans and birds, raising concerns that cows could become “mixing vessels” that help the bird flu virus spread between people.

Estimates show that by 2040, age-related macular degeneration may affect nearly 300 million people worldwide. And we are very limited in our ability to treat or prevent it. Here's what to know.

Turn around those bad family genes with four lifestyle changes.

Kidney care in the U.S. is at a watershed moment of moving past a deeply entrenched, institutionally racist equation.

Vegans and vegetarians sleep around 30 more minutes per night than average and up to 90% of them report good or excellent sleep quality, according to a new survey published by the Sleep Foundation.

What, exactly, does anorexia nervosa do inside the human body? The heart and bones suffer the most.

Many new mothers aren’t aware that postpartum PTSD even exists, but it’s far from rare. Here's what to know.

See how one person manages the ups and downs of major depressive disorder -- and how her depression inspired her career as a therapist.

A therapist talks about managing major depressive disorder (MDD): what to expect, strategies for dealing with setbacks, and when to talk to your therapist.

Learn from a mental health advocate how the stigma of depression is changing and how acceptance is the first step to managing major depressive disorder.

A person with major depressive disorder shares how they talk about their condition with others.

Major depressive disorder (MDD) at work: tips, strategies, who to tell, what to do, and asking for accommodations.

Not all exercises are created equal. Some are simply more efficient than others, whether they target multiple muscle groups, are suitable for a wide variety of fitness levels, or help you burn calories more effectively.

These tips will help you enjoy the foods at social events when you have ulcerative colitis and still steer clear of a flare.

Ulcerative colitis is a relapsing-remitting disease, so it’s hard to predict symptoms over time. Here’s what to expect and how to recognize remission.

Friendship can be a good medicine when you have ulcerative colitis. Learn how to keep your social life going when you don’t always feel like going out.

Curious if your body’s aging is normal? WebMD discusses healthy and normal signs of aging.

Your dietary needs change as you age. WebMD advises what should be on your grocery list.

After falling for over a decade, the death rate climbed for several years and now is about the same as in 1999.

There are far more powerful motivators than “get abs!” to help you start an exercise routine you’ll stick to.

The goalpost for old age has been moving. Until now.

More than 1 million Americans live with Crohn’s, a chronic and sometimes crippling bowel disease that affects the intestines and leads to digestive issues. But in 2024, breakthroughs could bring relief in different ways. Here's what to know.

How realistic is the Grey’s Anatomy episode that shows a Parkinson’s disease cure? A neurosurgery professor weighs in.

You shouldn’t draw major conclusions about the safety of marijuana amid the recent announcement that federal regulators may reclassify the drug, experts are cautioning.

A new study suggests female doctors may provide patients better care, especially when those patients are women. Here's what to know.

Eliseo Pérez-Stable, MD, director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, talks about health disparities and how his studies aim to improve interventions in clinical settings and across communities.

A data scientist who has accurately predicted COVID waves since the beginning of the pandemic warns that a surge is on the horizon.

New Season Brings Boost of Energy, but Also Unplanned Pregnancies

With age, your body doesn’t absorb nutrients well, so every calorie you consume must be packed with nutrition. Here are 9 nutrients older adults often need more of.

How does getting older affect your immune system? How can you keep those effects to a minimum? Your answers are here.

Trouble chewing and swallowing? WebMD shares six ways to make everything go down a little easier.

Staying healthy as you enter your golden years has a lot to do with your diet. Here are some foods that are good for your heart, your brain, your bones, and your muscles.

Losing your hearing, or learning a loved one is, can bring about a range of uncomfortable emotions. Here's how you can deal with this tough transition.

Before there was Ozempic, there were these cost-friendly, safe, and highly effective weight loss drugs. FDA-approved obesity medication like orlistat (Xenical), phentermine/topiramate (Qsymia), and naltrexone/bupropion extended release (Contrave) have been on the market for decades.

Learn how genes and lifestyle interact to affect your health over the course of your life.