The Illinois Supreme Court has upheld the state’s ban on the sale or possession of the type of semiautomatic weapons used in hundreds of mass killings nationally

Citizens of climate-threatened Tuvalu will have the right to live in Australia under a landmark pact unveiled Friday -- an offer of refuge as their Pacific...

Merijn Tinga was inspired to embark on the five-week trip after finding a Lucozade bottle in Sweden.

Madonna has postponed her career-spanning 2023 “Celebration” tour due to what her manager called a “serious bacterial infection” and her ongoing recovery

European stocks were set for their biggest drop in almost four months as robust US jobs data reinforced

By Anirudh Saligrama United Airlines plans to make changes in flight operations to avoid weather-related disruptions ahead of

US President Joe Biden said Wednesday he was "not focused" on an impeachment inquiry announced a day earlier by Republican lawmakers, as his White House...

The newly appointed Saudi ambassador to the Palestinian Authority is visiting the Israeli-occupied West Bank for the first time

Laphonza Butler, the woman selected by California Gov. Gavin Newsom to succeed the late Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, is a longtime union leader and abortion rights advocate, who also will be the first out Black lesbian to enter Congress.

At least two people were killed after a fire broke out Friday at the Nohoch Alfa oil platform at the Bay of Campeche, in the Gulf of Mexico, the state-owned Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) said in a statement.

A judge has sentenced a former contestant on the television game show “Family Feud” to life in prison after he was convicted of first-degree murder in the slaying of his estranged wife in western Illinois

Traffic on the key bridge connecting Crimea to Russia’s mainland has been halted after reports of explosions that Crimean officials say were from a Ukrainian attack