The National Christmas Tree Lighting tradition in Washington DC dates back a century.
Videos shared from across the region showed streets overwhelmed by rain and hailstones falling in a matter of minutes.
BBC Verify has used satellite imagery to track the mysterious phenomenon, which has surprised people around the world.
The museum, founded Star Wars creator George Lucas and his wife, will feature more than 1,200 works of art.
For the sixth time in history, a team of two women completed a spacewalk outside the International Space Station.
The rapper's killing became one of popular culture's great mysteries, with countless theories but no arrests until 2023.
About 15 people are thought to be missing or unaccounted for after flash flooding swept through parts of the iconic landmark.
The Florida puppy has since been adopted after being turned over to animal control, according to the Tampa Police Department.
The BBC's LA correspondent Shaimaa Khalil spoke to fans gathered to mourn the country music star at her Hollywood Walk of Fame star on Tuesday evening.
The BBC spoke to gatherers at her Hollywood star in Los Angeles, and fans in Washington DC about the music icon's impact.
Iconic country musician Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80, the singer's team announced on social media.
After nearly two-weeks without power, Gary, Indiana residents and officials call for accountability, infrastructure improvements, and customer relief measures.
Many voiced frustration at the escalating trade war, warning it risks damaging the deep economic and cultural ties between the two neighbours.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford lists the ways Canada could hurt the US economy - and uses blunt language to taunt the US president.
Tens of thousands of people in the US state have been warned to evacuate as the wildfire spreads in the outskirts of Reno.
US President Donald Trump was among hundreds of people who gathered to see the race through Washington DC streets on Sunday.
BBC Verify tracks the changes in design, spec, manufacture and release date of the T1 phone from Trump Mobile.
As the US president insults a journalist again, the BBC looks at the questions he does not like to answer.
The Freedom 250 Grand Prix is part of the nation’s 250th anniversary celebrations and the first major auto race in the US capital in more than 24 years.
The debt has more than doubled in a decade to reach a milestone $40tn (£29.4tn), Treasury figures show.
Tornadoes swept through New York and Delaware as severe storms brought torrential rain to the Mid-Atlantic.
