A push to use a prisoner swap to free two U.S. citizens from Russian detention may yield rewards for Washington, but experts say it provides no guarantees that future exchanges involving Moscow will ...

Russia and Ukraine accused each other Friday of shelling a prison in a separatist region of Eastern Ukraine, an attack that reportedly killed dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war captured after the fa...

A U.S. judge on Friday sentenced a Saudi-born Canadian man to life in prison after he pleaded guilty in December to aiding ISIS by working with propagandists who publicized the group's beheading of ho...

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez asked his ministers, public officials and private sector employees on Friday to stop wearing ties and stay cool as heat waves sweep parts of Europe, stoking deman...

Delivery of a Nord Stream 1 gas turbine to Germany from Canada after maintenance was not in line with the contract, Gazprom's senior manager said on Friday, stepping up criticism of manufacturer Sieme...

California Supreme Court this week upheld the conviction and death penalty for Charles Ng, one of two men implicated in at least 11 sadistic torture-slayings in the U.S. in the mid-1980s. ...

Search and rescue teams in Kentucky are trying to reach residents who were trapped by powerful floods overnight, some of which wiped out entire communities.

A bill up for a final vote in West Virginia's Senate could make the state the first to pass new legislation restricting access to abortions after the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling removing its protected...

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....

Former President Donald Trump played another round at his home course Thursday, this one different from so many others. He was part of the Saudi-funded LIV Golf Invitational pro-am, put on by a breaka...

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...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke by phone to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday in the highest-level known contact between the two sides since Russia invaded Ukraine, with Blinken...

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...

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...