Black Friday bargains no longer tempt people to leave Thanksgiving tables for midnight mall runs.

Shares in Europe are mixed following gains in most Asian markets.

The president of the Dominican Republic says he has authorized the U.S. government to operate inside restricted areas in the Caribbean country to help in its fight against drug trafficking.

With Thanksgiving and the formal launch of the holiday shopping season, Americans will again take to the road for holiday gatherings before knocking off items on their Christmas gift lists.

U.S. stocks rose for a fourth straight day, led by solid gains for technology companies.

Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te has announced a special $40 billion budget for arms purchases, including to build a Taiwan Dome, an air defense system with high-level detection and interception capabilities, as the U.S. pressures the island to increase its defense spending.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency is increasing the size of home loans that the government can guarantee against default as it takes into account rising housing prices.

A federal judge’s dismissal of criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney Letitia James, two political foes of President Donald Trump, won’t be the final word on the matter.

As the first year of President Donald Trump's second term comes to a close, two new polls from the Pew Research Center find that Hispanic adults are increasingly unhappy with the way his administration is handling the economy and immigration, issues that were key for voters during last year’s election.

Officials say progress was made in urgent weekend talks on amending the U.S. peace proposal for Ukraine that many saw as favoring Russia.

The U.S. stock market rallied.

Bird flu and another disease have shrunk the U.S. turkey population to a 40-year low this year.

Gunmen abducted 303 schoolchildren and 12 teachers from St. Mary’s School in Niger state, Nigeria, according to an updated tally issued Saturday by the Christian Association of Nigeria.

The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that found Texas’ 2026 congressional redistricting plan pushed by President Donald Trump likely discriminates on the basis of race.

The U.S. flu season is starting slowly, and it’s not clear if it will be as bad as last winter’s.

More swings hit Wall Street, except it finished higher this time.

Japan has reported that its exports to the world rose 3.7% in October from a year earlier, while imports edged up 0.6%.

Researchers have completed a full accounting of water uses and losses in the Rio Grande-Bravo basin as it faces severe shortages throughout its range in the United States and Mexico.

The Trump administration has threatened to withhold nearly $75 million in funding if Pennsylvania does not immediately revoke what the administration claims are illegally issued commercial driver’s licenses to immigrants.

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes increased last month to the fastest pace since February as lower mortgage rates helped pull more homebuyers into the market.

Judge Jerry Smith, who sits on the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals, published his 100-page dissent on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump is again expressing support for skilled immigrants training U.S. workers in high-tech factories.

The U.S. stock market swung through another unsettled day of trading, ahead of a couple of crucial tests for Wall Street.

A federal appeals court has paused a California law that requires companies that do business in the state and make more than $500 million a year to report how climate change could hurt them financially.

A man in Spring pleaded guilty to charges related to sending inappropriate messages and requesting explicit photos from a minor.

Home Depot’s third-quarter was mixed with fewer violent storms reaching shore, more anxiety among U.S. consumers and a housing market that has slumped.

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary and current Harvard professor Larry Summers says he'll step back from public commitments after the release of emails showing he maintained a friendly relationship with Jeffrey Epstein long after the financier pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from an underage girl.

Tribal citizens are among communities navigating the impacts of massive cuts in federal spending and the effects of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

In Chile, a hard-right former lawmaker and admirer of U.S. President Donald Trump is leading in the presidential runoff.

The U.S. stock market fell as Nvidia and other superstars created by the frenzy around artificial-intelligence technology dimmed some more.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is vowing to oppose any attempt to establish a Palestinian state.

The Democratic U.S. senator from Minnesota sits down with Ali Vitali, the host of MSNBC’s Way Too Early, at 9 a.m. Saturday.

A Sedgwick County, Kansas woman has pleaded guilty to lying to federal authorities after claiming her estranged spouse, who’s an astronaut, accessed her bank account while deployed to the International Space Station, U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei announced.

Seven people from the Houston area have been charged in a superseding indictment tied to an alleged Medicare fraud scheme, U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei said.

Hassan Al Gharawi, a 54-year-old Iraqi national, was convicted Thursday of conspiring to violate U.S. gun export laws, U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei announced.

The former U.S. secretary of transportation sits down with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic at 9 a.m. Friday.

Iran seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker as it traveled through the narrow Strait of Hormuz on Friday.

An early swoon shook the U.S. stock market, but it quickly calmed.

The first major blast of wintry weather in the U.S. this week brought snow, frigid temperatures and in some places something a little more magical: Frost flowers.

The indicted former national security advisor, who served under the president, spoke during The Texas Tribune Festival.

A senior adviser to the Sudanese paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces says U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s comments calling for a halt to the flow of military support coming to the RSF from abroad may jeopardize global efforts aimed at reaching a ceasefire.

Lawyers for two of President Donald Trump’s foes who've been charged by the Justice Department have asked a federal judge to dismiss the cases against them, saying the prosecutor who secured the indictments was illegally installed.

The U.S. stock market tumbled to one of its worst days since its springtime sell-off.

More than 1,000 unionized Starbucks workers are on strike Thursday at 65 U.S. stores.

U.S. Catholic bishops have voted to make official a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender patients at Catholic hospitals.

A Chinese scientist charged in Michigan with smuggling biological materials has pleaded guilty.

As part of a seismic schedule change for the 2028 Los Angeles Games, track and field, and not swimming, will lead off the Olympics.

U.S. stocks drifted around their records in a mixed day of trading.

The southeastern U.S. has plunged into record-low temperatures, affecting 18 million people under a freeze warning across Alabama, Florida, and Georgia.

The British government has rallied to the defense of the BBC as it faces a dispute with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Asian shares are mixed in cautious trading after most U.S. stocks rose, settling back to where they were before last week’s swoon over the future of artificial intelligence.

Wendy’s plans to close hundreds U.S. restaurants over the next few months to boost its profit and make its remaining stores more appealing.

The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.

China has a new visa scheme that is creating job opportunities for foreign professionals, part of its effort to attract global talent and gain an edge in global technology.

Large stretches of the U.S. await one of the season’s first blasts of wintry weather as temperatures dropped in the Northern Plains and snowstorms developed across the Great Lakes.

Ukrainian strikes have disrupted power and heating in two major Russian cities near the Ukrainian border, according to local Russian officials.

As the longest government shutdown in U.S. history stretches on, homelessness is growing more visible across the Houston area — and one woman says the state’s 211 helpline, meant to connect people to services, did not help when she needed it most.

Before dawn on Halloween, families in southwest Houston experienced chaos during a federal ICE operation. Among those affected was Erik Cornejo, a lifelong Houstonian and U.S. citizen, who says masked agents surrounded him and sprayed him with mace without warning.

Volunteers usually gather at Riverside National Cemetery in California on Veterans Day to place flags on graves, but not this year.

Cold temperatures across much of the U.S. and even snow in parts of the Northern Plains are forecast beginning this weekend.

Regina Garcia Cano was the reporter behind The Associated Press story that provided the first comprehensive account and identifies of some of the men killed in recent U.S. military strikes on alleged drug smuggling boats.

Peloton is recalling nearly 878,000 exercise bikes in the U.S. and Canada — due to seat posts that can break during use and pose fall hazards.

The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage ticked up for the first time in five weeks after falling to its lowest level in more than a year last week.

The Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group that has been at war with the Sudanese military for over two years, said it has agreed to a humanitarian truce that was proposed by U.S.-led mediator group, also known as the Quad.

Flight cancellations are accelerating as U.S. airlines comply with a government order to cut flights because of the shutdown.

U.S. health regulators are warning about unapproved versions of Botox and similar anti-wrinkle injections.

California Republicans have filed a lawsuit to block a new U.S. House map that voters just approved.

Starbucks’ union members have voted to strike at U.S. stores next week unless the company finalizes a contract agreement.

The new congressional map approved by California voters marked a victory for Democrats in the national redistricting battle playing out ahead of the 2026 midterm election.

McDonald’s sales got a lift from Snack Wraps and other value-oriented products and in the third quarter.

Pizza Hut could soon be up for sale.

China's Commerce Ministry has blamed the Netherlands for what it called “chaos” in the semiconductor supply chain.

Donald Trump features prominently in state and local elections happening Tuesday, a year after he retook the White House.

Nvidia and other AI superstar stocks propped up Wall Street.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright says that new tests of the U.S. nuclear weapons system ordered up by President Donald Trump will not include nuclear explosions.

Flight delays are continuing at U.S. airports amid air traffic controller shortages as the government shutdown enters its second month.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has visited Vietnam to reaffirm a partnership focused on addressing the legacies of the Vietnam War.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he told Ontario's premier not to run an anti-tariff ad that angered U.S. President Donald Trump.

A recent FBI-led raid at an Idaho race track shows how immigration is driving federal law enforcement under the Trump administration.

New York Attorney General Letitia James is pushing back against the Trump administration's investigation of cases that she brought against the president and National Rifle Association.

President Donald Trump has declined to say whether he plans to resume underground nuclear detonation tests.

The Justice Department has stripped references to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack from court papers and punished two federal prosecutors who filed the document seeking prison time at sentencing Thursday for a man arrested with guns and ammunition near former President Barack Obama's home.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says China has agreed to purchase 25 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans annually as part of an agreement reached by its leaders.

The European Central Bank is leaving its key interest rate unchanged as inflation remains under control and European businesses weather the impact of higher U.S. tariffs better than expected.

Stellantis' shares have dropped 10% after the world's fourth-largest carmaker posted modest third-quarter gains and warned about possible future charges.

The U.S. stock market sank from record heights as Wall Street sifted through mixed developments on everything from the U.S.-China trade war to profits for Big Tech behemoths.

President Donald Trump has appeared to suggest on social media that the U.S. resume testing nuclear weapons for the first time in three decades.

Monday night’s 18-inning marathon between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays in Game 3 of the World Series averaged 11.31 million viewers in the U.S. according to Nielsen, Fox and MLB.

Immigration authorities say they did not receive word of a court order blocking the removal of an Alabama father until after he had been deported to Laos.

Starbucks halted a long sales slide in its fiscal fourth quarter as fall drinks and improved service brought customers back to its stores.

The stakes for all these U.S. skiers, skaters, snowboarders and sliders over the next 100 days could not be more clear.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has welcomed Japan's commitment to accelerate its military buildup and defense spending.

U.S. stocks bounced around their records after the Federal Reserve made moves to boost the job market but warned that more help isn’t guaranteed.

U.S. viewers for the first two games of the World Series between the Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays dropped 14% from last year’s matchup between Los Angeles and the New York Yankees, but Canadian and Japanese audiences set records.

A federal judge has ruled acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli in Southern California is serving in the role unlawfully.

Almost everything in your 401(k) should be coming up a winner now.

Lukoil is selling its international assets in response to U.S. sanctions.

The U.S. stock market pushed further into record heights.

The National Hurricane Center warns that Hurricane Melissa poses a threat of catastrophic flash flooding and landslides in Jamaica, Cuba and Hispaniola.

President Donald Trump has called for Republican states to redraw their U.S. House districts ahead of next year's elections.