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Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea announced the grim news during a press conference, acknowledgingthe "very, very difficult task" of trying to find bodies in charred homes could mean that residents will... eventually be the ones to discover loved ones themselves.        

Sixteen crews of prison inmates are assisting to help contain the Camp Fire that has destroyed thousands of acres about 90 miles north of Sacramento.

In three auctions, there were some formidable prices, though eyebrows were raised at a number of intimidating estimates. And there were failures.

In April 2016 in rural Ohio, eight members of one family were killed. Tuesday, six members of a family with close ties to the Rhodens were arrested.        

There were conflicting reports on Tuesday on whether Mira Ricardel, a deputy national security adviser, had been fired.

Dozens of families are frantically searching for loved ones missing in the massive wildfire in Northern California, including many who lived in the now-decimated town of Paradise. Teresa Moniz pressed... her hand against her head Tuesday as she scanned a list of missing persons in a church in neighboring Chico and then added to it...

A Wisconsin school district and local police are investigating a photo of a group of mostly white high school boys giving what appears to be the Nazi salute.

For the second year in a row,President Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump will not attend the event meant to honor contributions to American culture on Dec. 2.        

Trump has again implied without evidence that officials in two pivotal counties are trying to steal the election

Turkey's state-run news agency says a court has sentenced a German singer of Turkish descent to six years and three months in prison for membership of an armed terror group. …

A man in Idaho fatally shot himself after gunning down his wife just days after she filed for divorce, authorities said. Police in Meridian discovered the violence after responding to a report of an... attempted murder and a suicide on Monday at a S. Thornwood Way home, where officers found 69-year-old Elizabeth Boone, 69, and...

Lieberman resigned over a truce, which has been called into question by Israel killing a fisherman on Wednesday.

But every Israeli attempt to discredit the Palestinian boycott movement is helping it gain more supporters.

Josh Harder declared winner in 10th congressional district House Republicans hold leadership elections on Capitol Hill Sign up for the Guardian's new US morning briefing 2.51pm GMT It is forbidden to... take pictures on the floor of the House and one newly-elected Democrat is already violating that rule. I will just note this picture on the House floor is a violation of House rules by a newly elected member of Congress. Good start. 2.50pm GMT A bill to lower the voting age to 16 in Washington DC suffered a major setback Tuesday when two previously supportive members of the city council flipped their positions and voted to table the bill. If passed, it would allow 16-year-olds to vote in the 2020 presidential election and play role in casting the District's three electoral votes.

An elderly passenger aboard a Holland America ship sailing in the South Pacific last week died in a fall from a tender platform.        

Though even temporary appointments for high-ranking posts are usually filled by Senate-confirmed officials, the Constitution does not require it, a law enforcement official said.

Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced his resignation on Wednesday in protest at a Gaza ceasefire that he called a "capitulation to terror", weakening Prime Minister Benjamin... Netanyahu's conservative coalition government.

Talgo, which is bidding to win HS2 rolling stock contracts, will build its first UK base in Fife More than 1,000 jobs are to be created at a new train manufacturing plant in Scotland by a Spanish... company bidding to win HS2 rolling stock contracts. Talgo will build its first UK manufacturing base at the site of a decommissioned power station at Longannet on the north shore of the Firth of Forth.

A teenage boy has died after being knocked unconscious during a Thai kickboxing match on Saturday, according to a local police source.

The darlings of South Korea's Winter Olympics are back in the headlines eight months after their stirring run to a curling silver medal in Pyeongchang. South Korea's sports ministry on …

The agency for the South Korean band BTS has apologized for a member wearing a T-shirt depicting the explosion of an atomic bomb. Japanese TV broadcasters recently cancelled planned appearances …

Ronnie and Cynthia Watts have broken their silence just a week after their son, Chris Watts, 33, pleaded guilty to murdering his pregnant wife, Shanann, 34, and their two children, Bella and Celeste.

A parent who took a photo that shows about 60 Wisconsin high school boys giving what appears to be a Nazi salute says he simply asked the youths to wave goodbye to their parents and that he takes the... blame for the timing of the shot. (Nov. 13)        

Warsaw University astronomers found two rare, lonely planets drifting aimlessly through space in darkness.        

It is well after dark but the action is just getting started on Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. This famous West Hollywood road, dotted with marquee signs and patrolled by paparazzi, is where... entertainment intersects with the American dream.