A Florida Republican lawmaker has filed a bill that would ban abortions after six to eight weeks and allow members of the community to sue doctors for terminating pregnancies in what may be the first ...

A coroner presiding over an inquest into the death of a British woman poisoned by the Soviet-developed nerve agent Novichok after a similar attack targeting a Russian ex-spy said Wednesday that she wa...

President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that the U.S. is doubling its purchase of Pfizer's COVID-19 shots to share with the world to one billion doses as he embraces the goal of vaccinating 70 per ce...

Thousands of migrants, mostly Haitian, have amassed at a Texas-Mexico border spot, taking U.S. officials by surprise due to the scope and speed of the gathering. It has presented a humanitarian and lo...

The World Health Organization said Wednesday that the harmful health effects of air pollution kick in at lower levels than it previously thought and it is setting a higher bar for policymakers and the...

A teetering Chinese real estate developer unexpectedly struck an 11th-hour deal to pay some of what it owes to its domestic investors on Wednesday, but foreign investors still owed millions of U.S. d...

The newly re-elected Liberal government will have to hit the ground running on the world stage as U.S. President Joe Biden pledges new era of vigorous competition without triggering a new Cold War. Ex...

Former U.S. president Donald Trump on Tuesday sued his estranged niece and the New York Times over a 2018 story about his family's wealth and tax practices that was partly based on confidential docume...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson was released from a Chicago facility Wednesday, a month after being hospitalized for a breakthrough COVID-19 infection that resolved relatively quickly, and following intensive...

Owen Wilson, Kim Kardashian West, Rami Malek and Jason Sudeikis are lined up to host the first four episodes of Saturday Night Live this fall.

With demand for taxis drying up in Thailand and thousands of drivers leaving town, one Bangkok cab company has turned its vehicles into mini vegetable gardens, hoping to take the edge off the coronav...

Ontario and New Brunswick rolled out vaccine passport systems on Wednesday that require people who are eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine to show proof of vaccination before entering non-essential indo...

Images of U.S. Border Patrol agents on horseback grabbing asylum seekers near the U.S.-Mexico border are "heinous," according to U.S. Democratic Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman.

Russia's ruling party will get 324 of the 450 seats in the next national parliament, election authorities announced Tuesday, which is less than United Russia won in the previous election but still an ...

The Taliban have asked to address world leaders at the United Nations in New York this week and nominated their Doha-based spokesperson Suhail Shaheen as Afghanistan's UN ambassador, according to a le...

Gabby Petito was killed by another person, a coroner concluded, while also confirming that the human remains found recently at a Wyoming national park were those of the 22-year-old woman who disappear...

Hundreds demonstrated in locked-down Melbourne on Tuesday after authorities shut down construction sites in the city for two weeks, saying the frequent movement of workers was spreading the coronaviru...

The Taliban expanded their interim cabinet by naming more ministers and deputies on Tuesday, but failed to appoint any women, despite the international outcry that followed their initial presentation ...

COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. have climbed to an average of more than 1,900 a day for the first time since early March, with experts saying the virus is preying largely on a distinct group: 71 million u...

U.S. President Joe Biden used his first address before the UN General Assembly Tuesday to declare that the world stands at an "inflection point in history" and must quickly address the festering issue...