Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Friday that China's military exercises aimed at Taiwan represent a "grave problem" that threatens regional peace and security after five ballistic missiles l...

Strategists across the American political spectrum were busy reading the tea leaves this week, trying to intuit what a vote on abortion rights in Kansas that upended many of the expectations for prima...

The U.S. Justice Department has charged four Kentucky police officers involved in the deadly raid that killed Breonna Taylor with civil rights violations. The fatal shooting of Taylor, a Black 26-ye...

A West Virginia man was sentenced Thursday to three years in federal prison after he sent emails threatening Dr. Anthony Fauci and another U.S. federal health official for talking about the coronaviru...

A Texas jury on Thursday ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay more than $4 million US in compensatory damages to the parents of a six-year-old boy who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary ...

Someone fired shots at the Mall of America in suburban Minneapolis on Thursday, sending shoppers running for cover, but police said it did not appear anyone was injured.

American basketball star Brittney Griner was sentenced to nine years in prison after being found guilty of drug possession and smuggling in Russian court on Thursday.

Powerful explosions rattled the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv on Thursday and a city close to the country's biggest nuclear power plant sustained a barrage of shelling, part of a series of new R...

U.S.-China relations are tense enough to spark concerns of military confrontation after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan.  The island — which China insists is part of its territor...

Group insists in a statement that it 'has no knowledge of the arrival and residence' of al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahri in Afghanistan.

Four people were found dead early on Thursday morning at two separate residences in the small Nebraska farming town of Laurel when police responded to reports of explosions and fires at the homes, aut...

The United States has declared monkeypox a public health emergency, the health secretary said on Thursday, a move expected to free up additional funding and tools to fight the disease.

An attorney representing two parents who sued conspiracy theorist Alex Jones over his false claims about the Sandy Hook massacre said Thursday that the U.S. House Jan. 6 committee has requested two ye...

Joaquin Phoenix will reprise his role as the Joker in a sequel to the 2019 Oscar-winning psychological thriller, a spokesperson for film distributor Warner Bros. said on Wednesday. Lady Gaga confirmed...

China says it conducted "precision missile strikes" in the Taiwan Strait on Thursday as part of military exercises that have raised tensions in the region to their highest level in decades. ...

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones testified Wednesday that he now understands it was irresponsible of him to declare the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre a hoax and that he now believes it was "100 ...

A volcano in southwest Iceland began erupting Wednesday, the country's meteorological authorities said — just eight months after its last eruption officially ended.

The OPEC oil cartel and its allies decided Wednesday to boost production in September by a much slower pace than in previous months at a time of high gasoline prices and unstable energy supplies exace...

Kansas voters on Tuesday sent a resounding message about their desire to protect abortion rights, rejecting a ballot measure in the conservative state that would have allowed the Republican-controlled...

Pope Francis said on Wednesday he felt the pain of survivors of Canada's residential school system and he asked for "forgiveness in the name of the church" for the role many of its members played in ...