U.S. & World

The Christmas movie “Home Alone” often prompts questions about the McCallister family’s finances. What advisors say it takes to maintain their level of wealth.

After this season’s peak shopping days, retailers expect their return rate to be 17% higher, on average, than usual.

The U.S. helped engineer Panama’s independence from Colombia to build the canal, which opened in 1914. But it ceded control to Panama in 1999.

The company grounded all flights for a little over an hour on one of the busiest travel days of the year.

Church officials painted over the angels in 1912 with thick coats of white paint, part of an austere renovation that restorationists are trying to reverse.

President Joe Biden has vetoed a once-bipartisan effort to add 66 new federal district judgeships. Biden said Monday that “hurried action” by the House left key questions unanswered about the lifetime positions.

President Joe Biden has signed the annual defense authorization bill into law despite his objections to language banning transgender health care for military children.

One of Colombia’s legendary drug lords and a key operator of the Medellin cartel has been deported back to the South American country, after serving 25 years of a 30-year prison sentence in the United States.

New Mexico prosecutors won’t pursue an appeal of a court’s decision to dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against Alec Baldwin.

Katherine Goodson told NBC 7 she sent thousands of dollars to scammers, thinking it was for actor Keanu Reeves.

Five people were recovering following a chairlift incident at Heavenly ski resort in Lake Tahoe.

Should you recline your seat while flying? An ad campaign says no, with a video showing the reasons the practice has fallen out of favor in the past decade.

Three people dropped into the ocean Monday when a California wharf partially collapsed.