Recognition of Juneteenth, the effective end of slavery in the United States, gained traction after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020. But after an initial burst of action, the movement to ha...

A celebrated Ukrainian medic whose footage was smuggled out of the besieged city of Mariupol by an Associated Press team was freed by Russian forces on Friday, three months after she was taken captive...

Protesters in India's eastern state of Bihar damaged public property and ransacked offices in a railway station on Saturday, expressing outrage at a new military recruitment plan and demanding the gov...

A panel of advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Saturday voted to recommend COVID-19 vaccines for children as young as six months, making it likely a nationwide rollou...

With all the information and witness testimony heard and seen over three days of hearings into the Jan. 6 riots, perhaps what's most significant is the window into potential charges that could be ...

At least 18 people have died as massive floods ravaged northeastern India and Bangladesh, leaving millions of homes underwater and severing transport links, authorities said Saturday.

Federal police said Friday that some of the human remains found deep in Brazil's Amazon rainforest have been identified as belonging to missing British journalist Dom Phillips.

Around midnight on June 17, 1972, 21-year-old intern Bruce Givner didn't pay much attention as he turned off the lights and exited the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate b...

Vince McMahon is stepping down as CEO and chairman of WWE during an investigation into alleged misconduct involving the longtime leader and public face of the organization.

The British government on Friday ordered the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to face spying charges, a milestone — but not the end — of a decade-long legal sag...

On Friday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized coronavirus vaccines for children under five years of age. Canadian children under five cannot yet be vaccinated against COVID-19, as Health...

The European Union's executive arm recommended putting Ukraine on a path to membership on Friday, a symbolic boost for a country fending off a Russian onslaught that is killing civilians, flattening c...

Japanese plaintiffs in four lawsuits, many still displaced in and outside of Fukushima since a 2011 nuclear crisis, had their bid to sue the government denied on Friday in a highly anticipated ruling....

Human rights organizations say more than a million Uyghurs have been detained, with estimates of hundreds of thousands forced into producing cotton, apparel and electronics for some of the world’s b...

Donald Trump's closest advisers viewed his last-ditch efforts to pressure his then vice-president, Mike Pence, to reject the tally of state electors and overturn the 2020 election as "nuts," "crazy" ...

The leaders of France, Germany, Italy and Romania arrived in Kyiv on Thursday to show a collective European support for Ukraine in both its resistance against Russia's invasion as well as its bid to j...

Canada's former top judge says she intends to stay on Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal despite government threats to civil liberties in the region.

'We are for peace, but please, the territorial integrity of Ukraine — this is not a point for compromise,' said former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko on the prospect of peace talks between Rus...

Severe weather has forced Abbott Nutrition to pause production at a Michigan baby formula factory that had just restarted after being closed for several months.

The Golden State Warriors are NBA champions once again, topping the Boston Celtics 103-90 on Thursday night for their fourth title in the last eight seasons.