European nations offered stark warnings Thursday about the waning days of a massive airlift to bring people out of Afghanistan after the Taliban seized control of the country, with a British official ...

As Afghans and others seek to escape Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, U.S. officials have expressed concerns about the potential for an attack by ISIS-K, a militant group known for staging suicide at...

A man upset over state-ordered coronavirus restrictions was sentenced to just over six years in prison on Wednesday for planning to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a significant break that refl...

At least 20 people have died in the western Venezuelan state of Merida following intense rains that caused mudslides and rivers to overflow.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is acknowledging nearly 12,000 more deaths in the state from COVID-19 than had been publicized by her predecessor, Andrew Cuomo.

Western nations rushed to evacuate people from Afghanistan on Wednesday but acknowledged that many Afghans who helped during two decades of war would be left behind to face an uncertain fate under th...

Spencer Elden, who appears naked as a baby on the cover of Nirvana’s 1991 album Nevermind, is suing the band for alleged child exploitation and pornography.

China on Wednesday criticized the U.S. "politicization" of efforts to trace the origin of the coronavirus, demanding without any evidence that American labs be investigated, ahead of the release of a ...

Delta Air Lines will charge employees on the company health plan $200 US a month if they fail to get vaccinated against COVID-19, a policy the airline's top executive says is necessary because the ave...

A pending move to require British Columbians to show proof of vaccination for a wide range of social and recreational activities seems to have spurred a lot of people to sign up for a shot. ...

Haiti has a proud past but a difficult history. The recent earthquake is the country’s latest disaster, but entrenched crises of poverty and political instability are inhibiting its ability to respo...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today the effort to airlift those fleeing Afghanistan out of Kabul will end in the coming days.

Serena Williams has withdrawn from next week's U.S. Open after the American said on Wednesday that her torn hamstring has not completely healed ahead of the final Grand Slam of the year. ...

Kathy Hochul became the first female governor of New York on Tuesday and in her first hours on the job sought to bring a new sense of urgency to tackling immense problems that went unaddressed during ...

Canada will remain in Afghanistan beyond the Aug. 31 date set for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country to help evacuate more Canadians and eligible Afghans if the security situation permits,...

Hong Kong said on Tuesday that new film censorship legislation will be introduced to "safeguard national security," in another sign of shrinking freedoms in the former British colony.

'The Taliban is intensifying a search for people who worked with U.S., Canadian and NATO forces in Afghanistan. My family members are in hiding, but the Canadian government says they don’t qualify f...

An Amherstburg, Ont., nurse has returned to Canada from Haiti, where she was part of a volunteer team helping people in the earthquake-ravaged Caribbean nation. She says she saw injuries "as bad or wo...

The leader of the Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced to more than five months in jail on Monday for burning a Black Lives Matter banner that was torn down from a historic Black church in downtow...

The slow and sprawling storm system named Henri drenched much of the inland northeast with rain Monday, hampering cleanup efforts and threatening further flooding in areas with ground already saturate...