Pushing the government to the brink of a partial shutdown, the White House is insisting that Congress provide $5 billion to build a border wall despite lawmaker resistance from both parties.
The Ankara governor's office has increased the death toll in a high-speed train crash in the capital to seven.
A street in a western German town got a repaving worthy of fictional candy maker Willy Wonka when a ton of chocolate flowed out of a factory and solidified.
In a season of big Indian weddings, the Wednesday marriage of the scions of two billionaire families might be the biggest of them all.
France is hunting for a suspected extremist who sprayed gunfire near the famous Christmas market in the eastern city of Strasbourg, killing three and wounding at least 11.
One of the worldβs biggest tobacco companies is diving into the cannabis market with a $2.4 billion buy-in.
One of two crew members recovered after two U.S. warplanes collided and crashed off Japanβs coast early Thursday is dead and five others remain missing, the U.S. military said.
Prayer and praise are on the agenda at the Washington National Cathedral today as the nation says a final farewell to former president George Herbert Walker Bush.
Back-to-back earthquakes measuring 7.0 and 5.7 shattered highways and rocked buildings Friday in Anchorage and the surrounding area, sending people running into the streets and briefly triggering a tsunami warning for islands and coastal areas south of the city.
The U.S. military says three American service members have been killed in a roadside bombing in Afghanistan's eastern Ghazni province.
A NASA spacecraft designed to burrow beneath the surface of Mars landed on the red planet Monday after a six-month, 300-million-mile (482-million-kilometer) journey and a perilous, six-minute descent through the rose-hued atmosphere.
Mexico looked set to shore up security near its border with the United States on Monday, as police lined up outside a shelter in the city of Tijuana and told Central American migrants they couldnβt walk toward the border area.
A federal judge has temporarily barred the Trump administration from refusing asylum to immigrants who cross the southern border illegally.
World leaders with the power to make war but a duty to preserve peace solemnly marked the end of World War Iβs slaughter 100 years ago at commemorations Sunday that drove home the message βnever againβ but also exposed the globeβs new political fault lines.
The Pentagon said Monday it is sending 5,200 troops to the Southwest border in an extraordinary military operation ordered up just a week before midterm elections in which President Donald Trump has put a sharp focus on Central American migrants moving north in slow-moving caravans that are still hundreds of miles from the U.S.
A search and rescue agency official says he's not expecting any survivors from the Lion Air plane that crashed into seas off Jakarta with 189 people aboard.
The U.S. military has already begun delivering jersey barriers to the southern border in conjunction with plans to deploy active duty troops there, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Sunday as a caravan of Central Americans slowly heads across Mexico toward the United States.
Taking a page from the U.S. presidentβs own playbook, China on Thursday denounced a U.S. newspaper report that it is listening to Donald Trumpβs phone calls as βfake news,β and suggested he exchange his iPhone for a cellphone made by Chinese manufacturer Huawei.
The Trump administration is planning to dispatch 800 or more active duty troops to the southern border at the direction of a president who has sought to transform fears about immigration into electoral gains in the midterms as a caravan of thousands of migrants makes its way through Mexico.
Saudi state-run media is reporting that prosecutors in the kingdom believe Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in a quarrel.
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