Pope Francis flew over New York’s Statue of Liberty and the former immigration station of Ellis Island aboard a helicopter on Saturday, in an unscheduled detour that gave him nostalgia for his home town Buenos Aires.
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Twitter is starting to make a bigger push for TV fans, networks and advertisers wanting to reach a primetime audience: The company has started to make its TV Timelines feature more widely available, and is adding shortcuts to the TV experience directly to its users’ tweets.
Hilton Worldwide Holdings said on Saturday it was investigating claims that hackers had compromised registers in gift shops and restaurants at a large number of Hilton Hotel and franchise properties across the United States.
Nearly 700 people have signed an online petition to bring back a Virginia teacher who was placed on leave after she used the N-word during a high school history lesson.
Grocery operator Haggen, which entered the Las Vegas market in June, plans to close seven local stores by the end of the this year.
The popular app Angry Birds has been downloaded on virtually every phone on the planet and now the disgruntled fowls are headed for the big screen.
When it comes to choosing the best of nature’s bounty, few of us know what to look for. Here are some tips from the produce experts at Whole Foods Market and a few other sources.
In one of the most amazing extra points you’ll ever see, Midland (Texas) Lee High School kicker Luis Aranda kicked a low line drive that bounced off of the referee’s head, knocking his hat off, and then deflected off of the crossbar and through the uprights.
Wags are calling the city Popeadelphia — a term emblazoned on about a million mugs in this city of brotherly love and sisterly affection. And though Pope Francis’ travel plans call for him to arrive Friday evening, he’s already here.
A prosecutor looking into allegations of sexual assault by NHL star Patrick Kane in New York said on Friday claims of evidence tampering was an “elaborate hoax” by the alleged victim’s mother and that the case’s rape kit was secure and in police custody.
John Boehner, the Ohio Republican who steered his party to an overwhelming House majority in 2010, said in a news conference Friday afternoon he had decided only that morning to announce his plans to resign from Congress.
Fans will have to wait a bit for the new James Bond film, but at least they can listen to the theme song.
A county clerk in Kentucky who was briefly jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples said on Friday that she and her family have switched to the Republican Party because the Democrats no longer represented them.
To sign up for the right plan for the iPhone 6S or 6S Plus (on sale Friday), you have to understand your own cell phone habits, and figure out what’s most important to you first.
Police in Southern California have arrested a high school student who was caught on video appearing to strike a visually impaired classmate, before he himself was punched to the ground by another student, authorities said.