Wednesday's Christmas Eve drawing ended the lottery game's three-month stretch without a top-prize winner. Final ticket sales pushed the jackpot higher, making it the second-largest in U.S. history.

AN NPR survey finds that people with disability still find hotels unaccommodating, even 35 years after passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Michigan State Police were called about 10:30 a.m. Sunday to a report of a crash on Trail 2 in Gogebic County’s Bessemer Township. The rider left the trail, went out of control, and hit a wooden post.

Hundreds of new Christmas songs are released every year, but each time December rolls around, the same small handful of classics races to the top of the charts. Will anything new ever break through?

Many people will be tearing open Christmas gifts tomorrow morning.Before you chuck all those wrappings into the trash bins, the Wisconsin DNR is reminding people what you and can’t recycle this ...

A criminal complaint says 42-year-old Brett La Barge hit a woman in the head with a hammer multiple times while she was sleeping ...

Religious leaders started getting together after Oct. 7, 2023, in the hope of preventing a repeat of Arab-Jewish violence that erupted after a previous conflict in Gaza two years earlier.

Today, people consider "Yule" synonymous with "Christmas." But centuries ago, Yule meant something different — a pagan mid-winter festival, dating back to pre-Christian Germanic people.

Crime rates dropped across much of the U.S. in 2025. That was true for both property and violent crime. And it declined nearly everywhere: In big cities and small towns, and in red and blue states.

DHS's handling of the incident raises questions about the department's oversight mechanisms to investigate employee misconduct.

The State Department announced Tuesday it was barring five Europeans it accused of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints.

Winter holiday festivals have become a regular way to grow revenue for America’s smallest towns. And with more people ...