Fifty oil companies representing nearly half of global production have pledged to reach near-zero methane emissions and end routine flaring in their operations by 2030, the president of this year’s U_N_ climate talks said Saturday, a move that environmental groups called a “smokescreen.”

North Carolina’s state House speaker is being sued for damages by a local elected official who alleges the powerful Republican ruined his marriage by having an affair with his wife

Iowa State quarterback Hunter Dekkers is accused of gambling on Cyclones sports events, including a football game, and has been charged with tampering with records related to an Iowa Criminal Division investigation into sports gambling

It's quiet at the Martoba cemetery outside the Libyan city of Derna, despite the presence of dozens of volunteers. Men in white hazmat suits pour lime over the brown soil to seal the graves. Cement bricks jutting out of the heaps of dirt are the only signs of the hundreds of bodies buried underneath.

Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano is spewing gas, smoke and ash

Asian stock markets have slid as the U.S. government creeps closer to a potentially disruptive default on its debt

Jeremy Renner and Mark Wahlberg have lobbied lawmakers with demands to create a new Hollywood in Nevada

The 26-year-old has been charged with two counts of first-degree criminal abuse of a child under the age of 12

The items were all stolen from Italy in the late 1990s and some were worth millions of euros.

CNN's previous boss Chris Licht left the role in June, and since then, CNN has been under the interim leadership of experienced network leaders

Sandra Bullock's longtime boyfriend Bryan Randall died due to ALS in AUgust after battling the condition for three years

John C Drake Jr, who apparently shot the two on-duty officers during a scuffle at a Dollar General, has a criminal history dating back to 2005