Nation/World

The Biden administration has extended the nationwide ban on evictions for a month to help tenants who are unable to make rent payments during the coronavirus...

A wing of a 12-story beachfront condo building collapsed with a roar in a town outside Miami early Thursday, killing at least one person while trapping resid...

President Joe Biden announced new efforts Wednesday to stem a rising national tide of violent crime, declaring that the federal government is "taking on the ...

The rapid spread of the delta variant of the coronavirus is poised to divide the U.S. again, with highly vaccinated areas continuing toward post-pandemic fre...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled for a Pennsylvania cheerleader whose profane off-campus rant cost her a spot on the cheerleading squad, saying the punis...

Nine Catalan separatists pardoned by the Spanish government walked out of prison Wednesday to the cheers of supporters, leaving behind their lengthy sentence...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones has told the University of North Carolina that she will not join its faculty as planned next month unle...

Japan's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that laws requiring married couples to have the same surname are constitutional, dismissing a challenge by three couple...

An Indiana woman on Wednesday became the first defendant to be sentenced in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and avoided time behind bars, while a...

State Senate Republicans who investigated Michigan's 2020 presidential election for months concluded there was no widespread or systemic fraud and urged the ...

Vice President Kamala Harris will make her first visit on Friday to the U.S.-Mexico border since taking office, following criticism from members of both part...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Wednesday formally endorsed changes to the way the military handles sexual-assault cases, becoming the first secretary to d...

Adding to the country's ongoing discussion of the extent of police powers, the Supreme Court on Wednesday put limits on when police officers pursuing a fleei...

The chief of the U.S. Border Patrol was forced out of his job Wednesday, after less than two years in a position that lies in the crosshairs of polarizing po...

Utah Rep. John Curtis, a former Provo mayor who says he’s tired of hearing that Republicans — his party colleagues — don’t care about climate change or slowi...