World

For the second straight year, the world heads into fall and winter with a La Nina weather event. This would tend to dry out parts of an already parched and fiery American West and boost an already busy Atlantic hurricane season.

A prominent Bill Cosby accuser filed suit Thursday against the actor over a 1990 hotel room encounter in Atlantic City, New Jersey, before the state's twoyear window to file older sexual assault claims expires.

President Joe Biden told visiting Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Thursday that the United States will make a onetime donation of more than 17 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to the African Union, the White House said.

U.S., Israeli and EU officials took a tough line toward Iran on Wednesday, with U.S. officials saying they would consider all options if Tehran failed to revive the 2015 nuclear deal and Israel saying it reserved the right to act.

The top Honduran opposition parties on Wednesday united behind Xiomara Castro as their candidate for a November presidential election, giving the wife of a leftist former president who was ousted in a coup a stronger chance of ousting the ruling party.

An air and ground offensive by Ethiopian troops and their allies against rebellious forces from the northern Tigray region is intensifying, a spokesperson for the Tigrayan forces said on Wednesday, claiming "staggering" casualties.

A former sheriff in South Carolina reported to prison Wednesday to serve a oneyear sentence for using his power and office to pressure a personal assistant to have sex with him.

A former longshot Idaho gubernatorial candidate on trial in the 1984 killing of a 12yearold Colorado girl wasn't even remotely considered a suspect to law enforcement until his obsession with the crime and incessant visits to talk with police about it pro...

A $2 billion project to build a rail link connecting New York City to LaGuardia Airport was officially put on hold Tuesday, after weeks of criticism from public officials and a lawsuit from neighborhood and environmental groups.

The U.N. refugee agency said it had recovered the bodies of 15 migrants and 177 survivors from two coastguard boats returning to Libya people who had sought to cross the Mediterranean.

Jason Isaacs was at a Starbucks when he sat down to read the script for Mass for the first time. It was a decision hed come to regret, if only because at some point he started heaving with sobs and couldnt stop. Strangers in the shop looked at him like...

Pennsylvania's highprofile attorney general, Josh Shapiro, will formally announce his candidacy for governor on Wednesday, entering the 2022 race months after making his intentions known and effectively clearing the field of potential rivals for the Democ...

The treatment, known as AZD7442, has been undergoing phase 3 or final clinical trials to assess its safety and efficacy.

The seventh annual Freedom Run to honor the memory of journalist James Foley is scheduled for Oct. 23 in Rochester, New Hampshire, and virtually around the world.

In September, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported that Iran had boosted its stocks enriched above the percentage allowed in the 2015 deal with world powers.

A Colombian nun who was kidnapped more than four years ago by alQaidalinked extremists in Mali has been freed, Malis presidency said Saturday.