The Federal Emergency Management Agency will conduct a national test of its Wireless Emergency Alerts and its Emergency Alert System on Aug. 11, according to agency officials.

While the dominant strain of the coronavirus in the U.S. is the delta variant, the lambda variation has been identified as a variant of interest by world health officials.

Kroger is joining a list of retailers updating their mask guidelines as a highly contagious form of the coronavirus continues to rapidly spread.

Disney employees already are required to be wearing masks at all U.S. sites. Now, they must be vaccinated.

Employees at Florida grocery giant Publix Super Markets will be required to wear face coverings regardless of their COVID-19 status starting Monday.

The NFL’s latest mandate throws a new wrinkle into the league’s playoff scenarios.

Rapper Biz Markie, known for his hit "Just a Friend" has died. He was 57.

Tropical Storm Elsa continued to march through the Northeast early Friday, officials with the National Hurricane Center said.

Joey Chestnut won his 14th Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest Sunday and set another world record after eating 76 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes.

Five people died Saturday after a hot air balloon hit power lines and crashed, officials said.

The U.S. has extended travel restrictions at the country’s borders with Mexico and Canada in a continued effort to curb the spread of COVID-19.

Delta Air Lines is the only other carrier to date to announce vaccination requirements for new hires,

Officials with the Transportation Security Administration said they screened nearly 2 million passengers at airports nationwide on Friday, a record-setting return to air travel amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

The saga began early Monday as several Twitter users posted screenshots of emails from the company’s official help@walmart.com address that replaced the email recipients names with a racial slur.

Kamala Harris has made history as the first Black woman elected as vice president of the United States, shattering barriers that have kept men — almost all of them white — entrenched at the highest levels of American politics for more than two centuries.