Consumer prices climbed 5% in March, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday, down from 6% in February.

Fed up by an enormous pothole in his Los Angeles neighborhood, Arnold Schwarzenegger picked up a shovel and filled it himself.

Three construction workers were injured Tuesday when part of an upper floor collapsed inside Savannah’s 124-year-old federal courthouse, which has been undergoing extensive renovations for more than a year.

A massive fire broke out Tuesday at a plastics recycling center in east central Indiana, prompting evacuation orders and concern over air quality as it produced a towering plume of black smoke.

A Fox Corp. shareholder filed suit against Rupert Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch and several members of the Fox Corp. board of directors in Delaware on Tuesday.

Police in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on Tuesday found three children fatally shot inside a home, as well as the body of their mother, who appeared to have killed herself, officials said.

A small Texas county is weighing whether to shut down its public library system after a federal judge ruled the commissioners violated the constitution by banning a dozen mostly children’s books and ordered that they be put back in circulation.

Walmart announced Tuesday it will abruptly close four underperforming Chicago stores, citing millions in annual losses.

A leaked U.S. intelligence assessment includes a stark reminder of the threat that hackers can pose to critical infrastructure.

In a survey, more than half of U.S. adults said they or a family member had experienced a gun-related incident — a sign of how common gun violence has become.