A New York City man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the killing of an 81-year-old World War I Veteran several decades ago, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said in a press release on Tuesday. Martin Motta, 75, of Queens, faces 20 years in prison for the 1976 killing of …

At the Smithsonian Institution, historian Jon Grinspan is a curator in charge of that part of the “Nation’s Attic” that holds the objects of American democracy and politics. “I call this the fossil record,” he said, “that just as the Smithsonian is known for its dinosaurs, these are the fossils …

Chick-fil-A was recently named America’s favorite fast-food restaurant, but the chain has just topped a decidedly less flattering list. According to industry publication QSR magazine’s Drive-thru Report, Chick-fil-A has the slowest drive-thru time of 10 popular restaurants, at 325 seconds, or about 5 1/2 minutes, on average. Wendy’s, whose founder Dave …

A man has been accused of assaulting two flight attendants and breaking part of a bathroom door during a chaotic United Airlines flight from Miami to Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, according to court documents filed earlier this week. Once the plane landed and he was taken into custody, Cherruy Loghan …

The number of available jobs in the U.S. plummeted in August compared with July as businesses grow less desperate to hire workers, a trend that could cool chronically high inflation. There were 10.1 million advertised jobs on the last day of August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Tuesday, down …

Trading in shares of Twitter was halted after the stock spiked on reports that Elon Musk would proceed with his $44 billion deal to buy the company after months of legal battles. For a second time, Musk offered to buy the San Francisco company for $54.20 a share, according to …

William “Bill” Plante, one of the longest-serving White House broadcast journalists in history, died of respiratory failure on Wednesday, according to his family. The award-winning CBS correspondent was 84 years old and lived in Washington, D.C. Plante retired from CBS News as senior White House correspondent in 2016 after 52 …

A man convicted in a rape and murder at a University of Alaska Fairbanks dormitory that went unsolved for more than two decades was sentenced to 75 years in prison in Alaska. Steven Downs, of Auburn, Maine, declined to address the courtroom before the just imposed the sentence Monday. The killing …

When she was 20 or 30 years old, how did Gwyneth Paltrow see what she’d be doing at age 50? “I don’t think I thought about it,” she replied. “I thought, you know, 50 is, like, you’re dead at that point!” Though clearly far from dead, Paltrow, who will indeed …

Presidents can declassify documents “even by thinking about it,” former President Trump claimed in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity that aired Wednesday night.  The ex-president has insisted the scores of documents with classification markers the FBI discovered at Mar-a-Lago were actually declassified. But Trump’s attorneys have resisted a …