A Texas jury on Thursday ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay more than $4 million in compensatory damages to the parents of a 6-year-old boy who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.
The Cincinnati zoo is celebrating the birth of a hippopotamus. The mother became pregnant even though she was on birth control.
Over 75,000 rubber ducks raced down the Chicago River Thursday to benefit charity. The annual event is coordinated by Special Olympics Chicago and this year they raised nearly $333,000.
Lincoln Center in New York City holds events in the month of July to celebrate Disability Pride Month.
A group of Sept. 11 victims' family members and survivors held a news conference to protest the Saudi Arabia-backed LIV golf tour hosted by Donald Trump on Friday.
Donald Trump embraced and praised the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Invitational as he took part in a pro-am at his Bedminster, New Jersey course on Thursday.
Shark sightings are on the rise along the New York shoreline resulting in at least three people being bitten in the past month. New York State has stepped up shark patrols to alert swimmers.
On This Date: July 25, 1965, when performing at the Newport Folk Festival, Bob Dylan was booed by the crowd, who objected to his electric guitar and band.
Tens of thousands of evacuees from Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region are returning to homes close to the front line, as they can't afford to live in safer places.
A fast-moving wildfire near Yosemite National Park exploded in size Saturday and prompted evacuations even as firefighters made progress against an earlier blaze that burned to the edge of a grove of giant sequoias.
