The new toll comes at a time when relief operations are expanding — the U.S.-based aid agency Samaritan's Purse opened a field hospital Saturday — but authorities are struggling with security at d...

A panicked crush of people trying to enter Kabul's international airport killed seven Afghan civilians in the crowds, in the latest chaotic site of civilians desperate to flee Taliban rule. ...

At least 22 people were killed, and rescue crews searched desperately Sunday amid shattered homes and tangled debris for dozens of people still missing after record-breaking rain sent floodwaters surg...

Tropical storm Henri socked the northeast with heavy wind and rain as it made landfall Sunday on the coast of Rhode Island, knocking out power to more than 100,000 homes and causing deluges that close...

The Ed Johnson Project is part of a quiet but determined U.S.-wide effort to remind everyone of the horror of the estimated 4,400 lynchings in this country in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, w...

Tensions in Haiti were rising on Saturday over a lack of aid to remote areas hardest hit by last week's devastating earthquake that killed more than 2,000 people in the impoverished Caribbean country....

Rev. Jesse Jackson, 79, and his wife Jacqueline, 77, have been hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19, according to a statement Saturday.

Hurricane Grace pummelled Mexico with torrential rain on Saturday, causing severe flooding and mudslides that killed at least eight people after becoming one of the most powerful storms in years ...

Twenty-four Palestinians, including a 13-year-old boy, and an Israeli police officer were wounded during clashes Saturday along the Gaza border during a demonstration organized by Hamas, according t...

The journalists held individual pickets outside the main headquarters of the country's top domestic security agency, the FSB, on Moscow's Lubyanka Square.

With the Taliban working to consolidate its victory after seizing Kabul following a rapid advance across Afghanistan, no one knows exactly what the country will look like in coming months and years. ...

Across the U.S., religious figures, doctors, public officials and other community leaders are trying to help people circumvent COVID-19 precautions.

Firefighters have tamed but not fully controlled a huge wildfire blazing through the backcountry of the French Riviera, the top state official in the region said Friday.

Jamaica will prohibit residents from leaving their homes for seven days spread over three weekends to contain an upsurge in coronavirus infections and shield its health-care system, Prime Minister And...

For the first time on record, rain has been recorded on the summit of Greenland — a location where precipitation has previously always fallen as snow or ice.

Charities across Canada are accepting monetary donations to help Haitians because it is the fastest way to get supplies on the ground.

OnlyFans, a site where fans pay creators for photos and videos and became famous as a space where sex workers could post content and get paid in a relatively safe manner, is planning to ban "sexually ...

The courtyard of the Ofatma hospital in Les Cayes, Haiti, is a scene of abject misery right now, as patients await treatment and hospital staff struggle with a lack of supplies in the wake of the 7.2 ...

In a show of solidarity, people around the world held vigils and rallies this week in support of the Afghan people after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan last weekend.

Mike Richards, the producer who was chosen to succeed Alex Trebek as host of beloved game show Jeopardy!, has stepped down after past misogynistic comments resurfaced earlier this week. ...