The S&P 500 hit another record after rising for a sixth consecutive day and the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq Composite each rose to begin the second half of 2021.
An alligator paid a visit to a church in Florida where it was greeted by parishioners and the pastor offered it a business card.
The U.S. deficit will reach $3 trillion for 2021, the second-largest shortfall since 1945 due to the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Congressional Budget Office said Thursday.
A Massachusetts library said 10 books returned to the facility by a man who found them in a box in his basement had been due back at the facility in 1937.
Amsterdam became the first Dutch city to apologize for its role in the slave trade Thursday.
New York City prosecutors indicted the top financial executive of the Trump Organization on 15 counts related to alleged tax crimes to which he pleaded not guilty Thursday.
A weeklong training during the Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training exercise with the U.S. Navy, Sri Lanka Navy and Air Force and Japan Maritime Self Defense Force concluded on Wednesday.
Morning commuters in a New Zealand city had to avoid an unusual traffic hazard when a wandering seal made its way into the road.
A pair of Florida men said they feel lucky to be alive and uninjured after their fishing pole was struck by lightning while they were out in a boat.
Britain invested $4.8 million for smarter missile systems -- allowing munitions to communicate and react quickly to changing threats -- the British Ministry of Defense said on Thursday.
The Marine Corps announced Thursday that its Fighter Attack Squadron 314 declared full operational capability for the F-35C Lightning II.
The National Security Agency on Thursday detailed ways in which the Russian government has used "brute force" tactics to hack into U.S. and foreign networks to steal data.
A crowd gathered at New York Harbor welcomed "Little Lady Liberty," a 9-foot-tall bronze statue that is a perfect copy of the Statue of Liberty Wednesday morning.
William Fichtner is replacing Dennis Quaid as Rick Kirkham in Peacock's upcoming scripted limited series, "Joe Exotic."
K-pop stars Blackpink released a concept photo teaser video for the Japanese version of "The Album."
North Korea's state-owned enterprises only had a small role in economic development after the Great Famine of the '90s, according to new South Korean analysis.
Funko has announced a new line of BTS Pop! figures inspired by the boy band's music video for "Dynamite."
A school in the United Arab Emirates earned a Guinness World Record by creating a medal that covers an area of more than 63 square feet.
Allison Tolman, J.C. MacKenzie, Chris Bauer, Hamish Linklater and Chris Messina will join Julia Roberts and Sean Penn in the Starz drama "Gaslit."
Prices for new drugs approved for use in the treatment of cancer in the United States more than doubled over the past decade, according to an analysis published Thursday by JAMA Oncology.
Thailand's resort island, Phuket, opened to foreign visitors for the first time since the start of coronavirus pandemic.
Pinterest said Thursday it will prohibit all ads with weight-loss language and imagery amid concerns from the National Eating Disorder Association.
The U.S. Army Contracting Command awarded Oshkosh Defence a $152 million contract for the Joint Light Tactical Wheeled Vehicles, trailers and associated kits, the Department of Defense announced.
In a pair of ideological 6-3 decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld restrictive voting laws in Arizona and struck down a California law that mandates disclosures of political donor lists.
"Beckett," a new film starring John David Washington, Alicia Vikander, Boyd Holbrook and Vicky Krieps, is coming to Netflix in August.