(NEW YORK) -- A bus crash on Tuesday in Mestre, Italy, a suburb near Venice, left 21 dead, including two babies, and another 15 riders injured, according to officials.

Prosecutors are investigating whether the 40-year-old driver suddenly became ill before the coach plunged off an overpass and onto a highway, officials said Wednesday. Investigators are also looking int...

(WASHINGTON) -- A showdown on Tuesday with a breakaway faction of his own party saw House Speaker Kevin McCarthy removed as leader of the chamber -- a historic development that signals chaos to come on Capitol Hill.

Hard-line Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida led the charge against McCarthy, a fellow conservative. Gaetz introduced a so-called motion to vacate l...

(NEW YORK) -- An estimated $1.2 billion jackpot is up for grabs in the next Powerball drawing on Wednesday night.

It's now the third-largest purse in the American lottery game's history and the biggest so far this year. It's also the seventh-largest U.S. lottery jackpot ever, according to a press release from Powerball.

The grand prize, which has an estimated cas...

Patrick Stewart says it gives him "nothing but pleasure" that Tom Hardy has had such a successful career. However, when Stewart filmed 2002's Star Trek: Nemesis with the actor, he thought it would be the end of the eventual Mad Max: Fury Road star's career.

According to Insider, in Stewart's brand-new memoir Maki...

(NEW YORK) -- More than 75,000 workers at Kaiser Permanente launched a strike Wednesday, with a coalition of unions alleging the health care system is engaging in unfair labor practices.

Employees in Virginia and Washington, D.C., walked off the job at 6 a.m. ET while those in California, Colorado, Washington and Oregon began striking at 9 a.m. ET, beginning the largest h...