Lefty frontrunner mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani once questioned the purpose of prisons in a resurfaced interview that set off alarm bells among rival candidates and law enforcement Friday.

OpenAI is launching a new general purpose AI agent in ChatGPT, which the company says can complete a wide variety of computer-based tasks on behalf of users. OpenAI says the agent can ...

The July 4, 1910 title fight between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries led to riots, mayhem, murder — and the racially motivated prosecution of boxing's first Black heavyweight champion.

U.S. Army Special Operations Command has warned of an unspecified terrorist threat against retired senior Defense Department officials who served in Iraq and Syria and now live in Florida.

A recent judgment by the US Supreme Court calls into question the separation of powers established by the constitution.

In 1999 a young American dumped his bicycle and walked out into the Great Sandy Desert. Why was he willing to risk his life, and why do some people need to get lost in order to feel found?

A Marine general will take over as the top military leader at the U.S. Naval Academy for the first time in the school’s 180-year history, replacing the first woman to hold that position. Marine ...

What is the purpose of a list ranking “the best” of something, anyway? Is it to establish a canon, a definitive record, etched in stone?

When George Washington, from Virginia, arrived in Cambridge 250 years ago, one of the first things he did was talk to his Massachusetts soldiers about the need for a unified American effort.

After receiving the devastating news that she had Alzheimer’s — just after losing her mother to the same disease — Judy Benjamin felt as though her world had ended. Then she met a doctor ...

Every rule Major League Eating has for the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest that fans and viewers need to know, from condiments to beverages to half-eaten hot dogs and more.