Checking Conservative conference claims on HS2, inflation, defence spending, fracking and more.

Consumer inflation in the United States nudged down only slightly in April, the Labor Department said on Wednesday, despite strong efforts to cool the economy...

Two Alaska Wildlife Troopers wound up playing the role of rescuers last week while boating to Ketchikan in southeast Alaska's famed Inside Passage

Three women with experiences of binge-drinking share their stories of completely quitting alcohol.

By Steve Scherer and David Ljunggren OTTAWA Canada's five major grocery chains have agreed to help the government

Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan arrived at his Lahore residence on Saturday after being freed on bail following days of legal drama and nationwide riots over...

By Danielle Broadway and Dawn Chmielewski LOS ANGELES Walt Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger on Wednesday said he

Police in Pennsylvania arrested two parents after finding their seven children living in what authorities described as "unsanitary" and "unsafe living conditions" -- which included caged rats and feces on the home's floor.

The power of the presidency always lures those seeking reflected glory. And Donald Trump's riotous palace court -- renowned for lax Oval Office walk-in privileges -- was a pageant of characters who might normally have gotten nowhere near a president.

Russian intelligence is operating a systematic program to launder pro-Kremlin propaganda through private relationships between Russian operatives and unwitting US and western targets, according to newly declassified US intelligence.

Amid an uptick in coronavirus cases, Republican presidential candidates are taking aim at limited, local returns to masking requirements -- using those moves as an opening to warn against broader restrictions.

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and James Mackenzie GAZA/JERUSALEM Israeli air strikes on residential blocks in south Gaza killed at