A U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan this weekend killed Ayman al-Zawahri, who took over as al-Qaeda leader after Osama bin Laden's death in a U.S. raid in 2011, President Joe Biden confirmed Monday, 11...

California's governor on Monday declared a state of emergency to speed efforts to combat the monkeypox outbreak, becoming the second state in three days to take the step.

A Texas man convicted of storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, while wearing a holstered handgun, a helmet and body armour was sentenced on Monday to 87 months in prison. The sentence of just ove...

Abortion could become illegal in parts of Michigan after a state Court of Appeals panel said in a decision released Monday that a judge's injunction blocking the enforcement of a pre-Roe v. Wade ban d...

Two bodies were found inside a burnt-out car in the path of a northern California forest fire raging near the Oregon border, authorities said Monday as crews battling the flames for a fourth day took ...

Kentucky's governor said Saturday that flash floods have killed at least 25 people and that he expected that number to rise significantly. He also cautioned that it could take weeks to find all the vi...

U.S. President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 again Saturday, slightly more than three days after he was cleared to exit coronavirus isolation, the White House said, in a rare case of "rebound...

Thousands of followers of an influential Shia cleric breached Iraq's parliament on Saturday, the second time in a week, to protest the government formation efforts led by Iran-backed groups. ...

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 ...

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...