Heavy rains fell across the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana on Tuesday as tropical storm Nicholas strengthened into a hurricane before making landfall, bringing the threat of widespread flooding, ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken defended the Biden administration's much-criticized handling of the military withdrawal from Afghanistan during a contentious congressional hearing Monday. ...

Some of the military pilots who fled Afghanistan the day the government collapsed are now in the United Arab Emirates, while the fate of their comrades in Tajikistan — who are calling on Canada to o...

Scientists are racing to collect ice cores — along with long-frozen records they hold of climate cycles — as global warming melts glaciers and ice sheets. Some say they are running out of time....

After a yearlong delay due to COVID-19, this year's Met Gala kicked off Monday evening with a bevy of surprise superstars and a theme celebrating American fashion.

Nicholas strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane Monday as it headed toward landfall along the Texas Gulf Coast and it was expected to bring heavy rain and floods to coastal areas from Mexico to stor...

Additional COVID-19 vaccine booster shots are not yet needed for the general population, according to a new medical journal article from leading international scientists.

Apple released an emergency software patch to fix a security vulnerability that researchers said could allow hackers to directly infect Apple devices without any user action.

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts says he plans to join other Republican governors in challenging U.S. President Joe Biden's sweeping new vaccine requirement in court.

Classroom doors swing open for about a million New York City public school students on Monday in the largest U.S. experiment of in-person learning during the coronavirus pandemic.

Firefighting crews in southern Spain are looking to the sky for much-needed rainfall expected on Monday that they hope will help extinguish a major wildfire that has ravaged 7,700 hectares and displac...

Women in Afghanistan will be allowed to study in universities as the country seeks to rebuild after decades of war — but segregation by sex and a dress code will be mandatory, the Taliban's new hi...

Yet another billionaire entrepreneur is set to ride into space this week, strapped inside the capsule of a SpaceX rocketship as part of an astro-tourist team poised to make history as the first all-ci...

The head of Iran's civilian nuclear program says Tehran will allow United Nations inspectors to install new memory cards into surveillance cameras at its sensitive atomic sites and to continue filming...

North Korea says it successfully test fired what it described as newly developed long-range cruise missiles over the weekend, its first known testing activity in months that underscored how it continu...

When HBO launched a cartoon show mocking eight-year-old Prince George this summer, it was only the latest instalment in a long history of royal satire. But reaction to The Prince may point to an evolv...

Visitors to Paris were surprised on Sunday when strolling on the Champs-Élysées as dozens of workers began enveloping in a shimmering wrapper a posthumous installation by artist Christo at the Arc d...

A return to a freer level of international air travel likely won't be possible until there's greater agreement among nations on the COVID-19 tests and vaccination documentation needed to travel abroad...

Russia and Belarus are talking about further integrating their economies, but experts are watching what is going on with their military as Russia seeks an expanded presence for its armed forces in Bel...