A suspected Chinese surveillance balloon in the skies over the continental United States has sparked national security and diplomatic concerns, adding to already tense Washington-Beijing relations.

News outlets in Costa Rica reported Thursday that a similar-looking aircraft hovered above the country’s western coast, raising suspicions that the balloon over Montana wasn't alone in the sky.

An explosion in the sky over Billings Montana, where a Chinese spy balloon has been flying over the region, was caught on camera Friday, capturing the aftermath that shows a trail of smoke in the sky.

If the Chinese stratospheric balloon spotted floating about a dozen miles above the northern United States is indeed a spy craft, it’s hard to believe that it was meant to chart its course in secrecy.

Montana is famed for its empty plains, wild river canyons and its status as home to one of the nation's three publicly known large-scale nuclear missile silos.

Wind chills will be in the minus 90s and minus 100s into Saturday at Mount Washington, New Hampshire, adding to this observatory's long history of weather extremes.

An Italian fugitive and convicted murderer suspected of belonging to the 'Ndrangheta syndicate, one of Italy's most powerful organized crime groups, was busted this week after more than 16 years on the run.

The man accused of stealing two emperor tamarin monkeys from the Dallas Zoo is also linked with the tampering of the zoo’s clouded leopard and langur monkey exhibits, authorities said Friday.

The employment picture started off 2023 on a stunningly strong note, with nonfarm payrolls posting their biggest gain since July 2022, with payrolls increased by 517,000 for January.

More than a dozen activist groups have filed a complaint asking for an investigation into media reports that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) required her Senate staff to run personal errands.

Only 21% of men say they received emotional support from a friend within the past week, compared to 41% of women, according to a 2021 survey by the Survey Center on American Life.

A 39-year-old Long Beach man was charged Friday with murder in the killing of a bicyclist in Dana Point and also faces a sentencing enhancement for the personal use of a deadly weapon.

Senator Dianne Feinstein hasn’t yet announced whether she’s retiring, but the race to replace her has already begun and the 2024 contest will be the first wide-open Democratic Senate primary in California since 1992.

The Manhattan district attorney’s super-secret criminal case against former President Donald Trump is largely a mirror image of the bank fraud lawsuit against him already filed publicly.

Prosecutors at Murdaugh’s trial are asking to allow jurors to hear from the son of the housekeeper, who says Murdaugh promised to take care of them, but kept a $4 million settlement for himself.

Next week Google is hosting what can only be described as an "emergency" event that will revolve around Google creating their own version of OpenAI's ChatGPT.

In grabbing control of the House, Republicans promised a vote on imposing term limits on members of the House and Senate to finally depose those entrenched, out-of-touch lawmakers.

George Costanza’s newfound approach to living has lit the Western sky for centuries, where support is found in the intellectual artillery of St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Ignatius of Loyola and C.S. Lewis.

'Overtime', the afterword of Bill Maher’s Real Time on HBO, made its CNN debut on Friday night where the host and his guests answer questions from viewers.

Documentary “Pamela, a Love Story” presents a portrait of a woman all too often reduced to a late-night punchline, where Anderson opens up about childhood traumas and the humiliation across the internet.