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Newly arrived migrants continue waiting night and day outside New York City’s Roosevelt Hotel hoping for their chance at a space in the city’s shelter system. The scene outside the hotel has underscored the bleak conditions. City officials and activist…

There could be a new contender for heaviest animal to ever live. While today’s blue whale has long held the title, scientists have dug up fossils from an ancient giant that could tip the scales. (Aug. 3)

A man accused of kidnapping a woman and trapping her in a cell is linked to violent sexual assaults in several other states.

The man convicted of carrying out the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history at the Tree of Life synagogue will be sentenced to death.

While its roughly 66 foot length doesn’t break records, its weight does. The whale was about as heavy as 35 school buses, a study estimates.

Sheriff David Davis walked with Zerimrah Knight into the girl’s school in Macon, Georgia. Her dad Christopher Knight died in the line of duty.

Evacuees wait for next French flight out of Niger

Someone carrying an assault-style rifle Friday will reenact the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

The wildfire, which started on private land within the Mojave National Preserve, quickly became California’s largest wildfire this season.

A black bear and a cub were euthanized Monday after the bear attacked and injured a man as he opened his garage door in Henderson County, Idaho.