Joe Biden’s first presidential speech to the U.S. Congress was a call to reverse the legacy of a speech given in that same chamber exactly 40 years earlier. On April 28, 1981, another first-year pre...

As Indians scramble to secure oxygen and public health experts warn infections aren't likely to fall much over the next few weeks, India's devastating second wave is being blamed on several factors, i...

U.S. President Joe Biden declared Wednesday night in his first address to a joint session of Congress that "America is rising anew" on the verge of overcoming the historic pandemic.

The U.S. Justice Department brought federal hate crimes charges Wednesday in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, charging a father and son who armed themselves, chased and fatally shot the 25-year-old Black m...

U.S. federal agents raided Rudy Giuliani's Manhattan home and office on Wednesday, seizing computers and cellphones in a major escalation of the U.S. Justice Department's investigation into the busin...

A new study is using millions of satellite images to generate a clearer picture of the fate of the world's glaciers than ever before.

Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, the so-called "forgotten astronaut" from the historic 1969 moon landing, has died.

City leaders in Columbus, Ohio, sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice Wednesday asking for an investigation into the city's police department following several police killings of Black peop...

The leader of Northern Ireland announced her resignation on Wednesday after Democratic Unionist Party members mounted a push to oust her over her handling of the fallout from Brexit and other issues. ...

Russian and Chinese media are systematically seeking to sow mistrust in Western COVID-19 vaccines in their latest disinformation campaigns aimed at dividing the West, a European Union report said Wedn...

India crossed a grim milestone Wednesday of more than 200,000 people lost to the coronavirus as a surge of new infections devastated dense cities and rural areas alike and overwhelmed health-care s...

China plans to launch the core module for its first permanent space station this week, in the latest step forward for the country's space exploration program.

Britain's Electoral Commission has opened an investigation into the financing of the refurbishment of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's apartment, saying there were grounds to suspect an offence ...

Pop star Britney Spears will personally address the Los Angeles court dealing with her long-running conservatorship in June, a judge agreed on Tuesday. 

It's been 100 days of quietude for a nation whose volatile politics has lately seemed to be on the perpetual edge of internal combustion. Joe Biden is googled less, discussed less and tweets less than...

Olympic athletes will be given daily tests for the coronavirus during their time in Tokyo for the delayed 2020 Games, organizers said on Wednesday.

After months of pressure, Ontario announced Wednesday that the province will provide a provincial paid sick leave program.

Five U.S. states have passed laws or implemented executive orders this year limiting the ability of transgender youths to play sports or receive certain medical treatment. There's been an outcry from ...

Vital medical supplies began to reach India on Tuesday as hospitals starved of oxygen supplies and beds turned away coronavirus patients, while a surge in infections pushed the death toll toward 200,...

The FBI announced a federal civil rights investigation into last week's shooting of Andrew Brown Jr., a Black man killed by deputies in North Carolina. Also Tuesday, an independent autopsy report rel...