Half of the child tax credit money will be paid out this year in monthly increments -- you'll get the rest in 2022. Here's what else you need to know about the child tax credit checks.

The US Coast Guard said Friday that four bodies have been recovered so far from the water near a commercial vessel that capsized earlier this week several miles south of Port Fourchon, Louisiana.

Liberty University sued its former president Jerry Falwell Jr. this week, exacerbating the messy divorce between the Christian university and the leader whose family name has been synonymous with the school since its founding.

Sixty-two years after leading a guerrilla army out of the mountain jungles of Cuba and helping his brother, Fidel Castro, impose communist rule over the island, Raúl Castro on Friday said he will relinquish his hold on formal power in the nation’s...

Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) tore into a new GOP caucus promoting “Anglo-Saxon political traditions,” calling it “hateful.”

Eight people were shot and killed and several others injured in a mass shooting Thursday night at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis.