Russian ballistic missiles killed 12 people and injured more than 30 in Kyiv early on Thursday, authorities said, damaging buildings and severing power supply to some parts of the Ukrainian capital. A fire broke out and the upper floors of a nine-story residential ​block...

Diesel prices in California climbed back to $7 per gallon Wednesday as wars in Eastern Europe and the Middle East disrupt refinery operations and fuel exports, tightening supplies worldwide.

The U.S. has designated Myanmar scholar and U.S. citizen Min Zin as wrongfully detained after his arrest by Chinese authorities in June, a senior State Department official told Reuters, a move that makes securing his release a top U.S. priority.

South Korea's presidential office condemned North Korea's launch of more than 10 short-range ballistic missiles on Thursday and ordered its military to maintain full readiness during ongoing ​joint exercises with the United States. The presidential office convened an...

The U.S. Navy has quietly helped keep oil moving through the Strait of Hormuz, escorting tankers along a southern corridor close to Oman as tensions with Iran have disrupted one of the world's most important energy routes.

Democrats on Thursday narrowed the list of potential host cities for their 2028 presidential convention to Boston, Denver and Philadelphia as their party looks ahead to a wide-open primary to succeed President Donald Trump.

A group of democratic socialists who won major U.S. House primaries this year will travel to Uruguay later this month to attend a conference of like-minded progressives from across the Western Hemisphere.

President Donald Trump said the United States will temporarily pause planned 50% tariffs on some Canadian imports after Washington and Ottawa reached a tentative agreement and raised the possibility of reviving the long-abandoned Keystone XL oil pipeline.

Poland has started preventive military aviation operations ​to protect its ⁠airspace amid ​Russian strikes on ⁠Ukraine on Thursday, the ​Polish army said in a post on X.

Florida Democrats are reeling after Angie Nixon, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, upset Alex Vindman in Tuesday's Senate primary.

President Trump on Wednesday expressed confidence in the U.S. bond market, saying the "country is doing well" while calling for lower interest rates. His comments followed a WH meeting with executives from cryptocurrency and financial technology companies.

Elon Musk on Wednesday called for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin to be freed, arguing that Chauvin was wrongly convicted of murder in the 2020 death of George Floyd.

Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced he would reduce felony charges against a police officer who discreetly recorded his colleagues making racist, sexist, and homophobic remarks, The New York Times reported.Daniel Flores has admitted to secretly...

The longtime publisher of Stars and Stripes has announced his retirement, ending a decades-long career with the military newspaper as War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon moves to exert editorial control and eliminate what it asserts are "woke distractions."

A Missouri judge has allowed new U.S. House districts backed by President Donald Trump to be used in the November elections, rejecting a bid to put the Republican-friendly districts to a statewide vote of the people.

Nike shares have fallen to near a 12-year low, wiping out roughly $200 billion in market value since the sportswear giant reached its pandemic-era peak in 2021, as weakening direct-to-consumer sales add to the company's years-long stock decline.

For most Americans, the $40 trillion national debt is not a bill that will arrive in the mailbox.Its effects are more likely to show up indirectly - through the cost of borrowing, the federal government's ability to respond to economic problems and, eventually, the taxes...

Embattled Rep. Max Miller, R-Ohio, said he is losing union support amid allegations of abusing his ex-wife and daughter. "A lobbyist for a trade union informed me by text message that the union was withdrawing its support," Miller wrote in a July 8 affidavit.

A Korean-style spa in Washington state is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a 9th Circuit ruling that upheld the state's authority to require the business to admit transgender women, arguing the decision violates its owners' religious and free-association rights.

Mount Sinai Health System has stopped accepting new patients with certain publicly funded and subsidized EmblemHealth and Fidelis Care plans under an Aug. 1 policy.