On the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, the republic is under stress. Its air of invulnerability is shattered. Over the coming months, several events will allow a ...

A judge was mostly dismissive Tuesday of oral arguments by a lawyer for Prince Andrew who wants to win fast rejection of a lawsuit alleging that the prince two decades ago sexually assaulted a 17-year...

North Korea fired a suspected ballistic missile into its eastern waters on Wednesday, the South Korean and Japanese militaries said, the first such launch in about two months amid long-dormant interna...

Canada has lost its first dispute case under the new North American trade agreement to the United States. A panel found that Ottawa flouted part of its obligation to open the dairy market. Now the U.S...

Former New York governor. Andrew Cuomo won't face criminal prosecution over an allegation that he fondled an aide. A prosecutor said Tuesday he was dropping the case because he couldn't prove it. ...

Rio de Janeiro has cancelled street parades and parties during its world-famous Carnival for a second year due to an increase in COVID-19 cases and the threat from the arrival of the Omicron coronav...

The last motorists out of hundreds who were stranded on a highway in Virginia — some for almost a day — by a winter storm have been cleared, officials said Tuesday evening.

Police in India have detained a man and a woman alleged to be involved in the offering for sale of prominent Muslim women on a fake online auction website, according to government officials, in a case...

American activists are appealing to Tesla Inc. to close a new showroom in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang, where officials are accused of abuses against mostly Muslim ethnic minorities. ...

The Beijing Winter Olympics are scheduled to begin in exactly one month, on Feb. 4. But whether they happen as planned seems less certain than ever. And even if they do proceed, plenty of questions re...

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes was convicted on four counts of fraud and conspiracy Monday, ending a lengthy trial that has captivated Silicon Valley.

A Hong Kong court sentenced a 36-year-old barrister to 15 months in prison on Tuesday for inciting an unauthorized assembly to commemorate those who died in China's 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy ...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will not require surgery, the medical team caring for him at a Sao Paulo hospital said in a statement Tuesday morning.

Canadians are seeing surgeries postponed, access to COVID-19 testing reduced and a return to classes delayed as provinces continue to struggle with a sustained wave of coronavirus cases and hospitaliz...

Gunmen unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry during an event on Saturday commemorating the Caribbean country's independence, his office said in a statement. ...

Pandemics do eventually end, even if Omicron is complicating the question of when this one will. But it won't be like flipping a light switch: the world will have to learn to coexist with a virus that...

Warner Music Group's publishing unit has bought late British rock star David Bowie's entire catalogue of music spanning six decades and including hits such as Space Oddity, Ziggy Stardust, Heroes a...

New York's attorney general has issued subpoenas to former U.S. president Donald Trump and his two eldest children in connection with an ongoing civil investigation into the family's business practice...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized the use of a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children aged between 12 and 15 years, and narrowed the time for all booster s...

A 2009 settlement agreement between convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Virginia Giuffre, who accused him of sexual abuse, was made public on Monday as part of Giuffre's civil lawsuit against B...