Canadian automakers breathed a sight of relief Thursday after U.S. lawmakers scrapped part of a massive incentive package for electric vehicles that would have excluded those assembled in Canada from...

A human rights group said it filed a legal complaint with a Paris court on Thursday alleging complicity by Saudi Arabia's crown prince — who is visiting France — in the gruesome 2018 killing of U....

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un warned he's ready to use his nuclear weapons in potential military conflicts with the United States and South Korea, state media said Thursday, as he unleashed fiery rh...

French officials say Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris is on track to reopen to worshippers and the public in 2024, more than three years after its roof and spire were destroyed in a massive blaze. ...

New data out of the United States shows the world's largest economy shrank in both the first and second quarters of 2022, which is the minimum requirement of what some experts say is the technical def...

Russian forces launched a missile attack on the Kyiv area for the first time in weeks Thursday and pounded the northern Chernihiv region as well, in what Ukraine said was revenge for standing up to th...

The race for the Republican presidential nomination won't begin in earnest until after the midterms, but the question of whether former U.S. president Donald Trump will run already looms large. ...

The Kremlin warned Thursday that a possible prisoner swap with the United States involving American basketball star Brittney Griner needs to be negotiated quietly without fanfare.

Former Minneapolis police officer J. Alexander Kueng was sentenced Wednesday in a federal court to three years in prison for violating George Floyd's civil rights during the May 2020 killing. ...

The man accused of opening fire on an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago, killing seven and wounding dozens of others, now faces 117 felony counts.

A Baltimore family is suing a Sesame Street-themed amusement park for $25 million U.S. over claims of racial discrimination, alleging multiple costumed characters ignored a 5-year-old Black girl durin...

Russian space officials told their U.S. counterparts that Moscow expects to remain on the International Space Station at least until their own outpost in orbit is built in 2028, NASA's space operation...

Gangs throughout Haiti's capital and beyond have grown more powerful since last year's assassination of president Jovenel Moïse. Kidnappings have skyrocketed and increasingly violent turf wars have s...

James Lovelock, the environmental scientist whose influential Gaia theory sees the Earth as a living organism gravely imperilled by human activity, has died on his 103rd birthday.

A big, pink diamond of 170 carats has been discovered in Angola and is claimed to be the largest such gemstone found in 300 years.

It was hailed as a post-Cold War collaboration for the good of humanity: two old rivals joining forces to launch the International Space Station more than 20 years ago. Now Russia says it's quitting t...

If the United Auto Workers can't organize workers at new U.S. electric vehicle (EV) battery factories that will supply Detroit's Big Three automakers, the union's future would be in serious doubt, say...

A strong earthquake set off landslides and damaged buildings in the northern Philippines on Wednesday, killing at least five people and injuring dozens. In the capital, hospital patients were evacuate...

At least 15 people have been killed and dozens of others injured during two days of demonstrations in Congo's east against the United Nations mission in the country, officials said Tuesday. ...

EU energy ministers approved a draft European law meant to lower demand for gas by 15 per cent from August through March.