A thick plume of smoke swept across the Midwest and New England, and those conditions could linger on Friday.

Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, a key vote on confirmation, had demanded the acting attorney general meet with victims.

The haze is likely to ease in the East this weekend but linger in the Upper Midwest, where some cities recorded extremely high pollution indexes on Thursday.

Federal investigators said a “crystal-like” substance in the bags looked like methamphetamine. A lawyer for the victim’s brother said it was salt.

The move is a significant change that could deter hundreds of thousands of immigrants from using such programs to meet basic needs.

The elite flying team had announced a safety review after videos posted on social media showed a fighter jet passing just above beachgoers on Wednesday.

A House panel approved the measure. But Republicans are divided over its size, cost and policy provisions, and many are concerned about the timing before the midterm elections.

As overnight temperatures climb across Canada, fires that once spread more slowly after dark are burning around the clock, straining fire crews.

From an underground parking garage, Ukraine’s newly dismissed defense minister aired the most dramatic, public critique of the military command to emerge during the war.

Shaoping Wu was working as a contract delivery driver for Amazon when he was pulled over in Pennsylvania. He had championed personal and religious freedom for Chinese citizens.

It’s the first potentially habitable world known to host an atmosphere, making it a lead contender in the search for life beyond our solar system.

A technical assistant to President Trump won around $100,000, according to the prediction market, which flagged the activity to the federal government.

The president lacks not only a coherent strategic concept but an elementary understanding of what strategy is.

Researchers have made important strides in understanding and treating diffuse midline gliomas, which were long seen as a death sentence for the children and adolescents they affect.