As two weeks of negotiations in New York City wrap up Friday, many hope the culmination will be a legally binding agreement between nations to conserve and protect marine biodiversity in the high seas...

Human rights groups say they have an extensive dossier of evidence on former Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa that documents alleged war crimes during the end of the country's civil war. ...

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in the middle of the fighting in Ukraine was temporarily knocked offline Thursday because of fire damage to a transmission line, causing a blackout across the regi...

A judge on Thursday ordered the U.S. Justice Department to make public a redacted version of the affidavit it relied on when federal agents searched the Florida estate of former U.S. president Donald...

The Canadian military's air detachment in the Middle East — which has been supporting anti-terrorism operations and UN peacekeeping missions in Africa — is being relocated to the United Kingdom. ...

When two 19-year-old hikers vanished on Oregon's Swastika Mountain, the modest butte in the middle of nowhere ended up rising in prominence due to its offensive name. Now the Oregon Geographic Names B...

California set itself on a path Thursday to end the era of gas-powered cars, with air regulators adopting the world's most stringent rules for transitioning to zero-emission vehicles.

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a major buildup of his country's military forces Thursday in an apparent effort to replenish troops that have suffered heavy losses in six months of bloody war...

Novak Djokovic will not play in the U.S. Open, as expected, because he is not vaccinated against COVID-19 and thus is not allowed to travel to the United States.

The number of monkeypox cases reported globally dropped by 21 per cent in the last week, reversing a month-long trend of rising infections and a possible signal the outbreak in Europe may be starting...

New York's highest court has agreed to hear an appeal from Harvey Weinstein over his 2020 rape conviction.

The Uvalde, Texas, school district fired police chief Pete Arrendondo on Wednesday, making him the first officer to lose his job over the hesitant and fumbled response by law enforcement at Robb Eleme...

Japan's national police chief says he will resign to take responsibility over former leader Shinzo Abe's shooting death.

Afghan women's rights activists opened a library in Kabul on Wednesday, hoping to provide an oasis for women increasingly cut off from education and public life under the ruling Taliban. ...

As Serena Williams, Sue Bird, Sylvia Fowles and Allyson Felix prepare to leave their respective sports, we can only imagine what they will accomplish next.

More than 40 million Americans could see their student loan debt reduced — and in many cases eliminated — under the long-awaited forgiveness plan U.S. President Joe Biden announced Wednesday, a hi...

Kobe Bryant's widow was awarded $16 million US as part of a $31 million jury verdict Wednesday against Los Angeles County for deputies and firefighters sharing grisly photos of the NBA star, their 13...

A severe drought in Texas has offered a rare sighting of some ancient dinosaur tracks preserved in stone for about 113 million years.

In the U.S., Democrats suddenly don’t seem so dead. The assumption they’re headed to a midterm electoral slaughter has been upended by recent polls, by a surge of enthusiasm related to abortion, a...

For Ukrainians, the six-month anniversary of the start of the war is nothing of the sort; they've been fighting Moscow for years. But it did coincide with the murder of ultranationalist propaganda mer...