The palm trees that line the roads in this desert city near the Dead Sea have been famous for millennia: "The plain of the Valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees," as written in Deuteronomy in the Old Testament.

The cost of financing a home surged again this week as the average long-term U.S. mortgage rate climbed to its highest level since December 2000, further dimming the affordability outlook for many would-be homebuyers

New Zealand’s central bank has determined that households’ view of future inflation is more informative than the expectations

Ukraine is insisting that the United Nations’ highest court has jurisdiction to hear a case alleging that Moscow abused the genocide convention to justify launching its devastating invasion last year

“Saturday Night Live” is ready to make its return, five months after ending its season early due to the writers strike

Novak Djokovic reached a 12th Wimbledon semi-final and record-equalling 46th at the Grand Slams on Tuesday as Elina Svitolina stunned world number one Iga Swiatek, delivering an emotional...

Barack Obama, then 21, wrote to Alex McNear in November 1982, with whom he had been in a relationship during his time at Occidental College in LA

Air travelers have been putting up with widespread delays all month, and it's continuing again, as bad weather rakes the Northeast

Fire crews put out the blaze in a basement of the famed jewellery store after an all-hands alert.

Marianne Williamson has kept barnstorming for months across America in a demanding schedule of appearances and speeches in her second tenacious run for the presidency

Hank Green is mostly known for creating accessible and enjoyable educational content on his various YouTube channels

A Texas inmate convicted of strangling a 5-year-old girl taken from an El Paso store and then burning her body nearly 22 years ago is facing execution