Louisiana's Mike Johnson won with 220 votes in his favour in the lower chamber of Congress.

I'm up there with the pilots. We're rocking and swaying, and all of a sudden, the flight controls start screaming, "Check Altitude. Check Altitude. Check Altitude. Throttle up. Throttle up." I'm like, 'Oh my god, this is what happens in the movies.'

The chief of the Russian private military group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, claimed Saturday that his forces have taken complete control of the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut after months of brutal fighting.

Six people have died and thousands displaced as fires continue to rage on Maui and the Big Island.

Mika Brzezinski looked visibly distressed in a clip she posted ahead of a flight

TOKYO (Reuters) -The leader of a Japanese fisheries industry group told officials on Monday he was "greatly concerned" about the

The Australian state says the cost of the tournament had ballooned to three times original estimates.

The Environmental Protection Agency is delaying plans to tighten air quality standards for ground-level ozone — better known as smog — despite a recommendation by a scientific advisory panel to lower air pollution limits to protect public health

Churchill Downs will suspend racing operations on Wednesday and move the remainder of its spring meet to Ellis Park to conduct a “top-to-bottom” review of safety and surface protocols in the wake of 12 horse fatalities the past month at the home of the Kentucky Derby

Illinois officials and Native Americans whose ancestors called the state home hope a new state law will speed the recovery and reburial of their relatives' remains unearthed over the past two centuries

You only get two eyes in this lifetime, so it’s important to keep ‘em as healthy and stylish as possible. On those supremely bright and sunny days, that means putting on a pair of trendy sunglasses to protect your delicate pupils from harmful UV rays — or from paparazzi flashes, or from things falling from the sky (which, who knows, could all totally happen).

Kansas is the preseason No. 1 in the AP men's college basketball poll