WASHINGTON (AP) -- Incoming senior Trump administration officials have begun questioning career civil servants who work on the White House National Security Co…
An emergency task force arrived in Russia's southern Krasnodar region on Sunday as an oil spill in the Kerch Strait from two storm-stricken tankers continues t…
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Some people across Los Angeles have worked for years to increase the number of trees that give respite from heat and air pollution.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Saudi Arabia urged top European diplomats at a gathering Sunday to lift sanctions against Syria to boost rebuilding the country an…
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Firefighters scrambled Sunday to make further progress against wildfires that have killed 16 people in the Los Angeles area as forecasters …
After a freezing winter storm shut schools, cut power and cancelled or delayed flights, the South was slowly thawing Sunday as weather warmed.
After the initial crush of personnel announcements for President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration, now the nominations process officially begins.
Kentucky will receive $110 million to settle its lawsuit accusing one of the nation's largest grocery chains of helping fuel the opioid epidemic, the state's a…
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Newly in the minority, Democrats say they will vote with Republicans to advance legislation that would require federal authorities to detain…
Nearly a decade ago, intense protests over racial injustice rocked the University of Missouri's flagship campus, leading to the resignation of two top administ…
LONDON (AP) -- Europe's security "is on a knife-edge" and President-elect Donald Trump is right to say NATO member nations must increase military spending, Bri…
ROME (AP) -- Pope Francis on Monday named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, appointing an Italian nun, Sister Simona Brambilla, to become prefect…
MAPLE GROVE, Minn. (AP) -- Ice crystals clung to the eyelashes, parka hood, beanie hat and headscarf of Ruqayah Nasser as she took a break after her first-ever…
Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th U.S. president, was honored Thursday with the pageantry of a fun…
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- New York's highest court on Thursday declined to block Donald Trump's upcoming sentencing in his hush money case, leaving the U.S. Supreme…
