An event that began as a Facebook joke is expected to attract several thousand people to a remote area of the Nevada desert over the next three days.

New York Mayor de Blasio announced that he is officially dropping out of the 2020 presidential race -- here's a look at his current finances.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appears to be playing more of an insider game in some of her recent endorsements. But she's insisting her insurgency is focused on policy, not merely disruption.

A father and son died after they both felloff a 75-foot cliffin Connecticut Wednesday,WVIT-TV reported.

Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg has addressed a UN summit, sailed across the Atlantic, and been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

As the remnants of the former Tropical Storm Imelda moved north on Friday, residents in southeast Texas awoke to shut down roads, scattered thunderstorms and the possibility of more flooding from a storm that became one the top 10 wettest in U.S. history.The storm that had barely earned a name it briefly ranked as a tropical storm before being downgraded to a tropical depression took many residents by surprise with its relentlessness, rekindling memories from when Hurricane Harvey dumped more than 50 inches of rainfall in some areas and caused dozens of deaths in 2017.

Why didn't the FBI pursue tip-line leads and interview witnesses? As a US attorney, I wouldn't have made charging decisions on such cursory work.

The Massachusetts woman convicted of encouraging her boyfriend to kill himself via text messages has been denied early release.

A diver and maritime history buff has found two schooners that collided and sank into the cold depths of northern Lake Michigan more than 140 years ago. Bernie Hellstrom, of Boyne City, Michigan, said he was looking for shipwrecks about 10 years ago when a depth sounder on his boat noted a large obstruction about 200 feet (60 meters) down on the lake bottom near Beaver Island. "I've made hundreds of trips to Beaver Island and every trip I go out the sounder is on," he told The Associated Press on Friday.

A Texas man is wanted by police after he allegedly filed for and completed divorce proceedings against his wife without her knowledge.