Nation/World
Read the latest national and world news, including stories from Newsday's reporters in Washington, D.C.
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"He felt like he was going to kind of just be by himself with this whole thing but it's not so -- it's going to be amazing," Perches Funeral Homes director Harrison Johnson said.
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Pro-democracy protesters marched on one side of Hong Kong's famous harbor on Saturday to demand the government heed their demands.
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The National Retail Federation says families with children in grades K-12 plan to spend an average of $696 on school shopping, up from $684 last year.
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A detailed recap of five memorable moments from the Thursday night debate in Miami — leading off with the discussion of busing in America between two top contenders in the field.
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Born into Hollywood royalty as Henry Fonda's only son, Peter Fonda carved his own path with his non-conformist tendencies.
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Travelers flying into the United States ran into long lines at major airports nationwide because of a temporary computer outage that affected the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency.
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The Bureau of Prisons said Epstein had apparently killed himself, but that didn't squelch conspiracy theories about his death.
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From immigration to gun control, Democrats covered a lot of ground in the first debate of the 2020 race.
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"Paule Marshall was a profound and luminous writer, as well as a generous teacher, mentor, and friend," the Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat wrote in an email
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The closer it gets to the 2020 election, the harder it will be to predict anything more than the most limited legislative compromises.
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Greenland said it's happy President Donald Trump has taken an interest in the nation, but it's not for sale.
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Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib said Friday she would not visit her grandmother in the occupied West Bank