By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON Permits for future U.S. single-family homebuilding jumped to a seven-month high in April, giving

OTTAWA Firefighters battled hundreds of blazing forest fires on Wednesday as Canada's worst-ever early season wildfires prompted more

The mother of a 6-year-old boy who shot his teacher in Virginia is expected to plead guilty in federal court to using marijuana while possessing a firearm

The dry expanses of southeastern Turkey, home to some of humanity's most ancient sites, have yielded fresh discoveries in the form of a stone...

Lolita the whale, also known as Tokitae, who had been entertaining people while in captivity for years, died on August 18

Gary C Ferrell II, 28, of Frankfort, pleaded guilty in April to two counts of murder in the deaths of Promise Mays, 21, and Pamela Sledd, 62

The environment ministers of Poland and Germany have met on the border of the two countries to discuss protection of a river against a repeat of deadly pollution that killed hundreds of tons of fish last year

French schools sent dozens of girls home for refusing to remove their abayas -- an over-garment from the shoulders to the feet worn by Muslim women -- on the first day of the...

David Dewayne Abbott, who was suffering from schizophrenia and other health issues, went missing on June 23, 2016

Ballard, whose work was depicted in the movie 'Sound of Freedom,' has been a prominent figure in the fight against child trafficking and exploitation

DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran successfully test-launched a ballistic missile with a potential 2,000-km range on Thursday, state media said, two days

President Joe Biden has told a packed Broadway theater full of big-name stars hosting a fundraiser in his honor that he is running for reelection because Donald Trump was determined to destroy the nation