A 104-year-old Chicago woman is hoping to be certified as the oldest person to ever skydive after making a tandem jump from 13,500 feet in northern Illinois.

Around 128 years ago, a petty thief died of kidney failure in a Pennsylvania, US jail. Now, more than a century later, residents of the small city of Reading will give his mummified remains a proper send-off and burial. The unidentified man, to locals, is known as Stoneman Willie and has for long been a creepy part of the city's lore. For the past many years, the mummy has been on display,...

Jimmy Carter put off his usual Sunday practice of watching church services online to instead celebrate his 99th birthday with his wife, Rosalynn, and their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren in Plains.

A Swiss Academy of Sciences panel is reporting a dramatic acceleration of glacier melt in the Alpine country, which has lost 10% of its ice volume in just two years after high summer heat and low snow volumes in winter.

Two helicopters zoomed through the starlit skies before producing spotlights over a Las Vegas desert and U2 frontman Bono, who kneeled to ground while singing "Vertigo."

Two helicopters zoomed through the starlit skies before producing spotlights over a Las Vegas desert and U2 frontman Bono, who kneeled to ground while singing "Vertigo."

South Dakota cowboys and cowgirls are rounding up a herd of more than 1,500 bison as part of an annual effort to maintain the health of the species, which has rebounded from near-extinction.

Attorneys and advocates say the church is trying to protect its assets and silence abuse victims by halting all civil claims against the archdiocese and shifting the process to bankruptcy court.

A storm has delivered one of the wettest days in decades to the New York metropolitan area. The deluge Friday stranded drivers on highways, knocked out several subway and commuter rail lines, and shuttered a terminal at LaGuardia Airport.

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A new report says the small plane that crashed in rural Alaska earlier this month, killing the husband of U.S. Rep.

Astronaut Frank Rubio now holds the record for the longest continuous space flight in US history.

A Danish artist who was given a pile of cash by a museum in northern Denmark to create a piece for its exhibition on labor conditions two years ago submitted two empty canvases, causing an uproar.

Army Pvt. Travis T. King has been released to U.S. custody after a multiweek diplomatic effort to secure his return from North Korea.

Hyundai and Kia are recalling nearly 3.4 million vehicles in the U.S. and telling owners to park them outside due to the risk of engine compartment fires.

This is the 11th time Commander has bitten a guard at the White House or the Biden family home.

President Joe Biden has joined picketing United Auto Workers in Michigan on the 12th day of their strike against major carmakers.

The first of thousands of residents who lost their homes in the wildfire that destroyed the Hawaii town of Lahaina have returned to their devastated properties.

As many have now died from complications as died in the attacks, the Fire Department of New York says.

The collected rocks and soil could help scientists unlock secrets about the solar system and how life emerged on this planet.

Friend also injured by same animal during the Pobla de Farnals festival in the Valencia region.

The Carter Center says former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, took a ride through the Plains Peanut Festival in their Georgia hometown over the weekend.

The landmark Washington National Cathedral has unveiled new stained-glass windows with a theme of racial justice.

Five flamingos that showed up in Wisconsin to wade along a Lake Michigan beach attracted a big crowd of onlookers eager to see the unusual visitors venturing far from their usual tropical setting.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Ophelia has made landfall on the North Carolina coast lashing coastal areas with damaging winds and dangerous surges of water.

Some archaeologists describe Peru's capital as an onion with many layers of history, others consider it a box of surprises.

U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey and his wife have been indicted on charges of bribery. Federal prosecutors on Friday announced the charges against the 69-year-old Democrat nearly six years after an earlier criminal case against him ended with a deadlocked jury.

New growth sprouting from the 150-year-old banyan tree in Lahaina offers signs of hope for its revival more than a month after fire singed its leaves.

Bob Ross was known for his unpretentious approach to painting on his long-running show, "The Joy of Painting," but now the painting he completed on his first episode in 1983 is for sale for nearly $10 million.

The F-35B fighter jet went missing on Sunday after a "mishap", leading officials to ask for public help.