A powerful winter storm was sweeping east from the Plains on Sunday, driven by what meteorologists describe as an intense cyclone, setting off a chain reaction of snow, ice, rain and severe weather expected to affect much of the country.Snow and strengthening winds spread...

Investors are looking for the U.S. stock market to end 2025 on a high note next week, with equities at record peaks and nearing further bullish milestones to close out another strong year.Major U.S. indexes were on course to end December higher after stocks shook off...

Arizona ranchers along the southern border say a dramatic drop in illegal crossings since President Donald Trump returned to office has brought long-awaited relief after years of cartel activity, drug trafficking, and daily fear on their land, The Telegraph reported Sunday.

⁠Italian prosecutors said on Saturday they had arrested nine people on suspicion of financing Hamas terrorists through charities based in Italy, in an operation coordinated by anti-mafia and anti-terrorism units.The suspects are accused of "belonging to and having financed"...

When the MetroCard replaced the New York City subway token in 1994, the swipeable plastic card infused much-needed modernity into one of the world's oldest and largest transit systems.Now, more than three decades later, the gold-hued fare card and its notoriously finicky...

Clashes broke out on Syria's coast between protesters from the Alawite religious minority and counterdemonstrators on Sunday, two days after a bombing at an Alawite mosque in the city of Homs killed eight people and wounded 18 others during prayers.Thousands of protesters...

When I learned that Lou Cannon died on December 19 at age 92, my mind raced back to the last time I spoke to the veteran newshawk. It was in 2022 at the reunion of the 56 Republican House Members who came to Congress with Ronald Reagan in 1980.

Thailand and Cambodia signed a ceasefire agreement on Saturday to end weeks of fighting along their border over competing territorial claims.The agreement took effect at noon and calls for a halt in military movements and airspace violation for military purposes.Only...

Demand for Chinese lithium batteries will likely slump in early ⁠2026 due to an expected tumble in domestic electric vehicle sales and slowing battery exports, the secretary general of China's passenger car association said on Sunday."Looking into 2026, demand for new...

President Donald Trump on Sunday insisted Ukraine and Russia are "closer than ever before" to a peace deal as he hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at his Florida resort, but he acknowledged that negotiations could still break down.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will sit down with Donald Trump on Sunday and seek to secure the US president's stamp of approval for a new proposal to end the nearly four-year conflict with Russia.The 20-point plan, which emerged from weeks of intense US-Ukraine...

A state Assembly campaign in Queens is attracting controversy after public statements from a candidate supported by Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani raised questions about her views on American national holidays and broader U.S. traditions.

A comedy writer who anticipated President Donald Trump's renaming of the Kennedy Center bought related domain names months before the official naming change.

President Donald Trump's tariff and healthcare moves have opened the door for Democrats to make inroads with a traditionally GOP-loyal voting bloc in rural America, reports Politico.

"I'm really concerned about the president's safety," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said, warning that recent Secret Service actions reflect serious security failures surrounding President Donald Trump.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, in a New Year's message to Russian President Vladimir Putin, said that the two nations have joined into "the sincerest alliance of sharing blood, life, and death in the same trench" while fighting together against Ukraine.

Democrat senators are urging Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to delay new national park entrance fees, claiming the changes were rushed and leave major questions unanswered about residency checks and identification requirements.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says Tehran is at war with the West and Israel.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Friday rejected calls for the European Union to become independent of the United States on defense matters, telling the German news agency dpa he's "absolutely convinced that the United States stands fully behind NATO."