Protesters in Syria held a sit-in Wednesday demanding justice for four activists who were forcibly disappeared in 2013 and ...

Police say a person who drove a pickup truck at high speed into a crowd of people celebrating the new year in New Orleans ...

Universities and state education policies dominated in 2024 with a tumultuous year that saw massive protests over the ...

A New Year’s Eve fireworks explosion in a Honolulu-area neighborhood killed two people died and injured 20 others, authorities say. The accident occurred just before midnight ...

Pregnant New Yorkers will be entitled to at least 20 hours of paid leave to attend prenatal medical appointments under a law that took effect Wednesday. Gov. Kathy Hochul said ...

Israeli strikes killed at least nine Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, mostly women and children, officials said Wednesday, as ...

Before reaching the 1978 peace deal between Egypt’s Anwar Sadat and Israel’s Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter managed months of ...

Pope Francis ushered in the New Year with a renewed appeal for the faithful to reject abortion, calling for a “firm commitment” to protect and respect life from conception to natural ...

From Sydney to Mumbai to Paris to Rio de Janeiro, communities around the world welcomed 2025 with spectacular light shows, ...

President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that he’s planning to attend the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter. Asked ...

A blackout hit nearly all of Puerto Rico early on Tuesday as the U.S. territory prepared to celebrate New Year’s, leaving ...