U.S. President Joe Biden's move to put 8,500 troops on "heightened alert" for a potential deployment to Europe, along with a $200-million shipment of weapons to Ukraine, suggests he wants to signal h...

Afghanistan is "hanging by a thread," United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres told the UN Security Council on Wednesday, calling for countries to authorize all transactions needed to carry o...

Germany's upcoming decision on whether to certify the controversial Russian-owned Nord Stream 2 pipeline is rapidly emerging as a key element in high-stakes diplomatic efforts to dissuade Moscow from...

The Biden administration and NATO told Russia on Wednesday there will be no U.S. or NATO concessions on Moscow's main demands to resolve the crisis over Ukraine, and top U.S. officials again warned th...

A Boston hospital is defending itself after a man's family claimed he was denied a new heart for refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19, saying most transplant programs around the country set simi...

Liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is set to retire, giving President Joe Biden an opening he has pledged to fill by naming the first Black woman to the high court, two sources told The...

The Federal Reserve signaled Wednesday that it plans to begin raising its benchmark interest rate as soon as March, a key step in reversing its pandemic-era low-rate policies that have fueled hiring a...

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson braced Wednesday for the conclusions of an investigation into allegations of lockdown-breaching parties, a document that could help him end weeks of scandal and disco...

The U.S. Coast Guard battled time and currents Wednesday as its planes and ships searched for 38 people missing off the coast of Florida, four days after a suspected human smuggling boat capsized in a...

Washington state Democratic representative Debra Lekanoff is trying to set up an Amber Alert-type system for Native American women who go missing in her state.

The Vatican on Wednesday strongly defended the former Pope Benedict XVI's record in fighting clergy sexual abuse and cautioned against looking for 'easy scapegoats and summary judgments,' after an ind...

A monkey with ghostly white circles around its eyes is among 224 new species listed in the World Wildlife Fund's latest update on the greater Mekong region in Asia.

Prince Edward Island will ease some COVID-19 restrictions as students return to classrooms next week, which will see Ontario and Quebec also relaxing public health rules amid a fifth wave fuelled b...

Meet Methuselah, the fish that likes to eat fresh figs, get belly rubs and is believed to be the oldest living aquarium fish in the world.

A prosecutor in Mexico said Tuesday the killing of two Canadians at a Caribbean coast resort last week was motivated by debts between international gangs apparently dedicated to drug and weapons traff...

David Ortiz gazed at his phone, his pursed lips revealing nerves rarely seen from one of the game's great clutch hitters.

London police said Tuesday they are investigating Downing Street lockdown parties in 2020 to determine if U.K. government officials violated coronavirus restrictions, putting further pressure on Prime...

U.S. President Joe Biden was caught on a hot mic uttering a vulgarity about Fox News reporter at a White House event on Monday after the journalist shouted a question about the impact of rising infla...