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If Americans could give up meat once a week for the soldiers, we can do this for the sake of our sanity.

Will Chicago’s mayor now sue media outlets?

Since 1961, Barnacle Billy’s, set in a particularly charming corner of the town of Ogunquit, has attracted lobster-curious visitors, fiercely loyal locals and even the occasional head of state

The presidential candidate walks back his initial views, albeit not enough.

What’s the worst thing that can happen to your lunch? A new Wall Street Journal comic about the modern workplace.

U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell awarded default judgment against Rudy Giuliani holding him liable for defaming Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea ArShaye "Shaye" Moss.

Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia has floated the possibility of leaving the Democratic Party.

Crews in Hawaii have all but finished searching for victims of the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, authorities said Tuesday, and it is unclear how many people perished. Three weeks after the fire devastated Maui’s historic seaside community of Lahaina, the count of the dead stands at 115. But an unknown number of people are still missing. Officials suggested that responders likely have already recovered any remains that are recognizable as such, and they are shifting the response to focus on removing hazardous waste and making the area safe for residents to begin returning. HAWAII MISSING PERSONS LIST: FBI, MAUI RELEASE NAMES OF 388 PEOPLE NOT FOUND AFTER DEADLY WILDFIRE "We have wrapped up almost completely the search and recovery mission and moving into the next phase," Darryl Oliveira, the interim administrator of the Maui Emergency Management Agency, said at a news conference. The next phase would be hazardous waste removal conducted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, he said. Maui Police Chief John Pelletier said urban search and rescue teams have "completed 100% of their area" but some search activity continues in the ocean off Lahaina. The FBI is searching 200 yards out along a four-mile stretch of coastline, but no human remains have been found, he said. There are 110 missing persons reports filed with Maui police, and more than 50 of those remain open cases that are still actively being worked, he said. Although the initial land search is complete, authorities may also use details from the missing person reports to go over areas again, he added. "They say, "My loved one was here’ and this may be a data point and we can continue," Pelletier said. "In case there was a chance that something needs to be further looked at, we’ve got archeologists and we’re gonna make sure that we can do that so, again, we do this the right way." He asked for "trust and patience" as officials continue to identify remains and go through lists of the missing. So far, authorities have identified and notified the loved ones of 45 of those killed. They have collected DNA from 120 people to identify the dead and continue to see more samples. EPA teams will search for and remove by hand hazardous materials like paints, pesticides and batteries. Lahaina had a large number of lithium ion solar-powered energy storage batteries, which the agency will treat as though they are unexploded ordnance, said Steve Calanog, the EPA’s incident commander. HAWAII GOV AGREES CLIMATE CHANGE ‘AMPLIFIED THE COST OF HUMAN ERROR’ ON MAUI FIRES Teams will remove large pieces of asbestos material, but any asbestos in ash will be addressed in the next cleanup phase, he said. The EPA will mist an adhesive called Soiltac on the ash to prevent it from migrating into the ocean, Calanog said. The substance is "non-toxic, biodegradable and marine safe" and will degrade in two to three months, he said. The EPA has integrated about 25 cultural observers into its teams so the agency "proceeds with caution, reverence and respect" in the town that was the capital of the former Hawaiian kingdom in the 1800s and home to Hawaiian chiefs for centuries. "We all know of the rich, long, historic and cultural significance of Lahaina," Calanog said. The EPA said in a news release it will take up to several months to remove household hazardous material, though the work could be finished sooner. Later, Maui Mayor Richard Bissen said in a recorded message on Instagram that the EPA would ship the toxic debris it collects to the continental U.S. "Those materials will not remain on Maui, nor will they remain in the state of Hawaii," Bissen said. Maui County didn't sound its emergency sirens to warn residents of the fire when it spread on Aug. 8. Darryl Oliveira, who took over as interim administrator of the Maui Emergency Management Agency on Monday, said sirens had not been used for wildfires in Hawaii before. But he said Maui, the state, and other Hawaii counties were working on new protocols to do so. "We see tremendous value in incorporating more tools into our arsenal to keep the public aware and get them early warning," he said, adding that the current hurricane season is overlapping with extremely dry conditions on Maui and statewide. In an early example of this, officials on Saturday sounded emergency sirens to warn residents of a brush fire near Kaanapali resort hotels in Lahaina. Firefighters quickly brought the fire under control. Oliveira guided the Big Island through hurricanes and volcanic eruptions as the head of Hawaii County civil defense for many years. He said one challenge was educating the public -- including tourists -- on what to do if they hear a siren sound to warn of a wildfire.

Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday that "different versions" of what happened exist and "are being considered" by Russian investigators, including, "let's put this way, deliberate wrongdoing."

Overheated labor market of the past two years may be over, raising questions about Fed's next move, experts say.

The judge ordered Giuliani to pay more than $130,000 in lawyers' fees and other costs for shirking his duty to turn over information requested by the election workers as part of their lawsuit.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Deanne Criswell will hold a news briefing on Wednesday as Hurricane Idalia makes landfall in Florida as a Category 3 storm.

More than 230,000 customers are without power as trees snap in the winds and water turns roads into rivers.

Ukraine and Russia made their boldest drone and missile strikes in months on each other, with a strike in Kyiv killing two people while a strike on ships in the Black Sea and an airport near the border lasted for hours, according to local reports.  "While the Russians have been retaliating brutally against Ukraine, Kyiv’s incremental escalation has prevented a massive conventional (or nuclear attack) that would have obliterated Ukraine," Rebekah Koffler, president of Doctrine & Strategy Consulting and a former Defense Intelligence Agency officer, told Fox News Digital. "It’s quite witty," she said. "Will this win the war for Ukraine? No. But it might gradually wear down the Russian people’s morale." Two security guards died and another person suffered injuries due to falling debris from buildings in Kyiv, with additional Russian strikes on an unidentified facility and railway tracks in the central region of Zhytomyr overnight Wednesday.  WHITE HOUSE SAYS IT'S ‘VERY CLEAR’ PUTIN WAS BEHIND PRIGOZHIN'S DEATH Ukraine, meanwhile, hit several regions in Russia, including an airport near the border with Estonia and Latvia that damaged military transport planes, as well as strikes on the central Pskov region and the city of Kaluga that destroyed a fuel depot and a microelectronics factory, the BBC reported.  Both nations have increased the tempo and severity of their attacks in recent weeks to try and break their opponent as the invasion – or the "special operation," as Russian President Vladimir Putin has continued to call it – reaches the 18-month mark with little end in sight.  KREMLIN ADMITS DEATH OF WAGNER MERCENARY LEADER YEVGENY PRIGOZHIN MAY NOT HAVE BEEN ACCIDENTAL Kyiv launched a counteroffensive in June – a little over 15 months since the invasion started – but made little immediate progress. Reports from both sides indicate that Ukraine has started to gain some momentum, hitting valuable Russian military assets and starting to strike at targets within Russia itself.  But Ukrainian officials have not taken credit for the attacks and not commented directly on any potential involvement: Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s minister of digital transformation, told AP recently that he has seen "news about long-range drones that hit various targets both in occupied Crimea and in the territory of Russia" and that his country has produced drones capable of such strikes.  BIDEN ADMINISTRATION SHELLS OUT ADDITIONAL $250M WEAPONS PACKAGE FOR UKRAINE Koffler called Ukraine’s increased use of drone strikes "clever," explaining that Ukraine has been "gradually eroding Putin’s red lines by striking Russia with pinpointed individual strikes." "They’ve been bringing the war home to Russia, habituating ordinary Russians – who don’t have the whole picture because of the Kremlin’s overwhelming propaganda machine – that the motherland will have no peace, so long as Ukraine is under siege," she added.  She stressed that Ukraine must strive to avoid the "obvious risk of nuclear escalation," which "keeps many national security professionals up at night."  "Either way, the world is in it – Russia-Ukraine brutal war of attrition – for years," Koffler said.  Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

The ruling sets the stage for a jury trial to determine how much money the former Trump lawyer must pay for spreading conspiracy theories about the workers fabricating ballots.

The Wall Street Journal reporter has been detained for five months with no trial date in sight.

‘It feels like the machine has started again,’ says president of American Chamber of Commerce in China.

Commercial crude-oil supplies dropped by 10.6 million barrels last week to 422.9 million barrels, compared with analysts’ expectations that stockpiles would fall 2 million barrels.

Patients treated by female surgeons were less likely to experience adverse complications, studies find.

There are a few ways to gauge the expected destruction from a hurricane, but one of the more unusual ways is the Waffle House index.​

Nearly 2,000 flights have been delayed or canceled Wednesday after powerful Category 3 hurricane hit Florida's Gulf Coast.

The launch came hours after the United States flew at least one long-range B1-B bomber to the Korean Peninsula in a show of force against North Korea as part of its annual drills with South Korea.

The new rule would require employers to pay overtime to so-called white collar workers who make less than $55,000 a year.

Three star ball carriers pushed to shift the market forces working against them before this season. They fell short of the end zone.

The Labor Department said workers who make around $55,000 a year or less would now be eligible for overtime by default. The proposal kicks off a likely monthslong regulatory process.