Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says her state could be seeing a drop in infections after leading the nation’s COVID-19 daily case rate for weeks

Alma Wahlberg, the mother of entertainers Mark and Donnie Wahlberg and a regular on their reality series “Wahlburgers," has died

The upcoming trial of a former Massachusetts mayor first elected at the age of 23 will showcase the dramatic rise and fall of the wunderkind accused of stealing from his investors and extorting marijuana companies

The United States and China, the world’s two biggest carbon polluters, have agreed to cooperate to curb climate change with urgency

The pandemic has torn a multibillion-dollar bite out of the fabric of Europe's fashion industry, stopped runway shows and forced brands to show their designs digitally instead

Safety regulators are warning people with kids and pets to immediately stop using a treadmill made by Peloton after one child died and others were injured

Charles “Chuck” Geschke — the co-founder of the major software company Adobe Inc. who helped develop Portable Document Format technology, or PDFs — died at age 81

U.S. water officials are projecting the man-made lakes that store water used throughout the American West will fall to historically low levels and trigger an official shortage declaration for the first time

States around the country are lifting COVID-19 restrictions

The sprawling hacking campaign came to be known as SolarWinds, for the company whose software update was seeded by Russian intelligence agents with malware to penetrate government and private networks

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has lately shied away from coming face to face with reporters as sexual harassment allegations him have mounted

An American astronaut and two Russians have returned to Earth after six months aboard the International Space Station

A top Chinese diplomat has called U.S. policy on China “too negative,” saying it highlights confrontation over cooperation

The Justice Department has sued Donald Trump's ally Roger Stone, accusing the conservative provocateur and his wife of failing to pay nearly $2 million in income tax

NASA has chosen SpaceX to build the lunar lander that will eventually put the first woman and person of color on the moon

Vartan Gregorian, the noted scholar and philanthropic leader who led the Carnegie Corporation of New York since 1997, has died

Stocks continued to march higher on Wall Street Friday, giving the S&P 500 its latest record high and its fourth straight weekly gain

Michigan’s worst-in-the-nation Covid-19 outbreak is starting to affect automotive production, with a major Ram pickup truck plant slowing its output due to a large number of absent workers

Two passengers who were aboard a United Airlines flight that had to make an emergency landing after one of its engines blew apart in Colorado are suing the company

Regulators in Massachusetts are trying to effectively bar the popular Robinhood trading app from the state