A Ukrainian decree from 2022 ruling out negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin raises the question of who could ...

Pope Francis was resting Wednesday, the start of the solemn Lenten period leading up to Holy Week observances, after sleeping ...

It was a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way to discourage desertion during the Civil War and a dose of frontier ...

A placid fishing trip turned “berserk” for three New Zealand men when a dolphin weighing more than 400 kilograms (900 pounds) ...

Democratic Rep. Al Green of Texas wasn’t the first lawmaker ever to blurt out a shout of protest during a presidential ...

Israel’s cutoff of food, fuel, medicine and other supplies to Gaza’s 2 million people has sent prices soaring and ...

South Sudanese soldiers surrounded Vice President Riek Machar’s home in the capital on Wednesday and several of his allies were arrested after an armed group allied ...

An Israeli rights group says Israel demolished a record number of Palestinian homes in annexed east Jerusalem last year. Ir Amim, which closely tracks settlement activity and demolitions in the ...

Greenlanders awoke Wednesday to a message from U.S. President Donald Trump, who said his administration supported the Arctic island’s right of self-determination and also ...

A health economist who famously clashed with officials at the National Institutes of Health faces Senate questioning Wednesday on his nomination to head that agency. Dr. Jay ...

President Trump’s dream of closing the Department of Education is impossible without Congress, but that doesn’t mean he has no power to shrink or weaken the federal agency. While some ...

A president’s speech to Congress — even without the formal gloss of a State of the Union address — is typically a time for a ...