U.S. & World

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.

A judge granted Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ request to restrict identifying information about jurors in the Georgia election interference case.

The victims, ages 19, 20 and 21, were chased and attacked in San Diego’s Ocean Beach neighborhood on June 6, subjected to a racial epithet and told they didn’t belong there, prosecutors said in a news release.

Pediatric cancer doctors are sounding the alarm about a growing shortage of chemotherapy drugs for children.

More than three years into the pandemic, the millions of people who have suffered from long COVID finally have scientific proof that their condition is real.

Pfizer had said most of the tornado damage was to a storage facility, rather than its medicine production area.

The ninth-largest lottery jackpot will be on the line when numbers are drawn for a $785 million Powerball prize.

Hundreds of school systems around the country have adopted four-day weeks in recent years, mostly in rural and western parts of the U.S. Districts cite cost savings and advantages for teacher recruitment.

British police have opened a sex crimes investigation triggered by news reports about comedian Russell Brand. London’s Metropolitan Police force said Monday that it had “received a number of allegations of sexual offences” after a television documentary and newspaper investigations.

Five flamingos showed up in Wisconsin to wade along a Lake Michigan beach in a historic visit to the state.

A Vermont driver on Monday pleaded not guilty to a charge in the June crash that killed actor Treat Williams.

Lego said it has “decided not to progress” with making its trademark colorful bricks from recycled plastic bottles made of polyethylene terephthalate, known as PET, and after more than two years of testing “found the material didn’t reduce carbon emissions.”

There is still no evidence that molnupiravir, sold under the brand name Lagevrio, has produced more transmissible or severe variants of Covid.