Both Russia and Ukraine emerged from the latest round of so-called peace negotiations in Turkey on Tuesday suggesting progress had been made. But Ukrainians are deeply suspicious of any talk of a ceas...

U.S. President Joe Biden signed a bill into law on Tuesday to make lynching a federal hate crime — more than 100 years after such legislation was first proposed.

The Queen shrugged off recent health issues to attend a service of thanksgiving for her late husband, Prince Philip, at Westminster Abbey on Tuesday, entering the cavernous church through a side doo...

A gunman on a motorcycle opened fire in a crowded city in central Israel late Tuesday, methodically gunning down victims and killing at least five people in the third deadly attack in a week. The sho...

People hoping to speed up their cross-border travel with the NEXUS and FAST programs will be able to book screening interviews starting next month in the United States, the Canada Border Services Agen...

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen announced late Tuesday that it will observe a unilateral ceasefire in the yearslong war, a move it said is aimed at facilitating political negotiations in the...

FedEx says Fred Smith will step down on June 1 as CEO of the package-delivery company that he founded and be succeeded by the company's president and chief operating officer.

U.S. regulators have authorized a fourth dose of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine for Americans 50 and older because of concerns about waning immunity in the age group, the drugmakers said on Tuesd...

A two-phase lockdown of Shanghai's 26 million people is testing the limits of China's hard-line "zero-COVID" strategy, which is shaking markets far beyond the country's borders.

British police have issued 20 fines over illegal parties held by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his staff during coronavirus lockdowns — although the recipients don't include Johnson, whose hold o...

The government of El Salvador said Monday it has arrested more than 1,000 gang suspects after a wave of killings over the weekend.

The U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol voted unanimously Monday night to hold former Trump advisers Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino in contempt of Congress f...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Monday that forbids instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through Grade 3, a policy that has drawn intense national scrutiny ...

Afghanistan's Taliban has instructed all government employees to wear a beard and adhere to a dress code or risk being fired, three sources told Reuters, the latest of several new restrictions imposed...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said late Monday that Russian forces are still attacking Kyiv, despite being driven out of Irpin, a suburb northwest of the capital that has seen heavy fighting...

China's most extensive COVID-related lockdown in two years is underway in Shanghai, as the city of 26 million people undergoes a series of phased shutdowns to test a growing outbreak of the coronaviru...

The day after slapping Chris Rock on the stage of the 94th Academy Awards, Will Smith issued an apology to the comedian, the academy and viewers at home, saying he was "out of line" and that his actio...

Gunmen massacred 20 people on Sunday night in a suspected gangland attack at a clandestine cockfighting venue in western Mexico, authorities said, in one of the worst mass shootings under the current ...

After two weeks in a Kharkiv bomb shelter, Olana Markova and her teenage daughter are stuck in Poland facing Canadian visa delays as part of the process to help those fleeing the conflict in Ukraine. ...