Former U.S. president Donald Trump is suing the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to block a subpoena requiring him to testify.

The predicted Republican red wave of victories that failed to materialize in the U.S. midterm elections could have been impacted by young voters who may have made a significant difference in key ra...

Twitter paused its recently announced $8 US blue check subscription service on Friday as fake accounts mushroomed, and new owner Elon Musk brought back the "official" badge to some users of the socia...

A British farmer says his flock of rare sheep have become “fashion icons all around the world" thanks to their pink hairdos.

Democrats can retain control of the Senate by winning either the Nevada race, which remains too early to call, or next month's run-off in Georgia. Republicans must now win both of those races to take ...

NBA commissioner Adam Silver has "no doubt" that suspended Brooklyn guard Kyrie Irving is not antisemitic, he said at a conference on Thursday, while LeBron James took to Twitter to defend his former...

Last week, billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried was touted as a key figure in cryptocurrency — even a saviour. Today, amid a series of tweets, he blamed himself for the crash of his FTX exchange after it b...

Republicans have inched closer to a House majority while control of the Senate hinged on a few tight races in a midterm election that will determine the type of Congress that U.S. President Joe Biden ...

The ill-fated Challenger broke apart soon after liftoff in 1986. Now, a crew of divers has uncovered some more of its debris while searching for clues in another mystery.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his company were ordered Thursday to pay an extra $473 million US to victims' families and an FBI agent for calling the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax, addin...

Elon Musk in his first email to Twitter employees said remote work would no longer be allowed and that they would be expected in office for at least 40 hours per week, Bloomberg News reported on Thurs...

The Taliban are banning women from using gyms in Afghanistan, an official in Kabul said Thursday, the religious group's latest edict cracking down on women's rights and freedoms since they took power ...

Tropical Storm Nicole hit Florida as a hurricane Thursday, washing away the remaining protections for a stretch of beachfront properties that lost their seawall during Hurricane Ian only weeks before....

The dizzying pace of price increases moderated in the U.S. last month, with the country's official inflation rate cooling to 7.7 per cent.

Russia's military said Wednesday it will withdraw from the only Ukrainian regional capital it captured, but Kyiv was skeptical and an analyst warned this could be a ruse to lure the country's forces i...

The attorney general for the District of Columbia said Thursday his office is filing a civil consumer protection lawsuit against the Washington Commanders, owner Dan Snyder, the NFL and Commissioner R...

Here's why Joe Biden is smiling today, even after U.S. midterm losses. Republicans — and Donald Trump — emerged from the election with unexpected bruises in a surprisingly close fight. ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the Group of 20 summit in Indonesia next week, an Indonesian government official said Thursday, avoiding a possible confrontation with the United State...