The world's top energy and financial institutions have warned that a growing wave of national oil stockpiling is deepening the price shock from the war in Iran, with Brent crude jumping back above $101 a barrel Wednesday as the Strait of Hormuz remained largely closed.

The mother of three children killed in a mass shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana, remains hospitalized with a bullet lodged in her head and is suffering from memory loss, according to a relative.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday blamed a "massive mail in ballot drop" for giving Democrats a "rigged election" victory and the right to redraw Virginia's congressional map.

President Donald Trump's political director, James Blair, said Wednesday he remains confident Republicans can secure victories in the midterm elections, even as recent polling shows declining economic approval ratings...

An appeals court has blocked a California law passed in 2025 requiring federal immigration agents to wear a badge or some form of identification.

Americans say colleges should teach students how to use artificial intelligence, but they are less comfortable with schools using it in admissions or tutoring, according to a Quinnipiac University poll.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said Iranian leaders had "terminated the planned execution" of eight women protesters.

The Marxist guerrilla army, which the United States has branded a terrorist organization for nearly three decades, has emerged as the central obstacle to President Donald Trump's stated goal of ending the Venezuelan cocaine trade

A man who stole a purse from then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem while she dined at a restaurant under the protection of Secret Service agents was sentenced on Wednesday to three years in prison for a string of thefts in the nation's capital.

Rep. David Scott, a Georgia Democrat who was seeking his 13th term in Congress despite challenges from within his party, has died. He was 80.

With his 11-day trip to Africa ending Thursday, Pope Leo will return to Rome having not visited several countries on the continent considered pivotal to Catholicism's growth worldwide.

The Trump administration is expected to move soon to reclassify marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III under federal law, according to Axios - a step that would ease restrictions on medical research but would not legalize it.

Starbucks is facing new internal friction as it expands into Tennessee - a conservative state that bans most abortions and where Republican lawmakers have moved to roll back LGBTQ protections, Bloomberg reports.

Billionaire investor Mark Cuban said he has no interest in seeing former Vice President Kamala Harris mount another White House bid in 2028.

The parents of Sheridan Gorman, an 18-year-old Loyola University Chicago freshman who was shot and killed in March, allegedly by a suspect in the United States illegally, are speaking publicly for the first time, calling for accountability...

Americans seeking Irish citizenship increased 63% last year, though the overall number remained relatively moderate.

The Justice Department has withdrawn subpoenas issued in the investigation of former CIA Director John Brennan, with officials asking for voluntary interviews instead of testimony before a grand jury, two people familiar with the matter said Tuesday.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Chad Bianco on Tuesday released his first TV ad, vowing to eliminate California's income tax, protect girls sports, and crack down on crime if elected.

Anyone born after Jan. 1, 2009, will never be allowed to buy cigarettes in the United Kingdom under the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, which cleared Parliament, the BBC reported.

Julio Cesar Jasso Ramirez, the 27-year-old gunman behind Monday's shooting at Mexico's famed Teotihuacan pyramids, drew inspiration from pre-Hispanic sacrifices and the notorious 1999 shooting at Columbine High School in the United States, according to investigators.