Six months after her nomination, the State Department said Christine Jack Toretti still is pending Senate confirmation as ambassador to Sweden.

Lastly, a fun note is that Smith was used out of the backfield during warmups — carrying the ball on two toss plays. The tight end has rushed the ball 19 times in his career and his season-high sits ...

Ohio State coach Ryan Day hasn’t named a starter at quarterback yet but he did go into some detail Thursday about what he will be looking for as Lincoln Kienholz ...

The biggest event in harness racing celebrates a centennial anniversary this weekend with the 100th running of the Hambletonian. The trotters race at the Meadowlands in northern New Jersey still ...

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Mourners packed a New York mosque on Thursday to honor a Bangladesh-born police officer who embraced the job of protecting ...

Two top leaders in a rural Texas county were asleep and a third was out of town in the initial hours of a catastrophic flood ...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences elected "A Star is Born" film producer Lynette Howell Taylor as its new ...

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A teacher admitted he fatally stabbed a couple he didn't know who were hiking with two of their children in an Arkansas state park, authorities ...

With President Donald Trump's dramatic tariff hikes on the cusp of starting, countries around the world scrambled on Thursday to finalize their trade frameworks with the United ...

The new agency vetting name, image and likeness deals in college sports reached an agreement that relaxes standards on player ...