President Donald Trumpโs first Christmas Eve in office was a busy one that unfolded like this: tweet against perceived adversaries, cheer U.S. troops spending the holidays overseas, play golf, chat with children anxious to know when Santa will bring their presents, eat dinner with the family and attend a church service.
President Donald Trump is the first president in almost a century to close his first year in office without welcoming a visiting counterpart to the U.S. with state dinner.
The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Thursday to denounce President Donald Trumpโs recognition of Jerusalem as Israelโs capital, largely ignoring Trumpโs threats to cut off aid to any country that went against him.
House Republicans early Thursday unveiled a new, stripped-down spending bill to prevent a government shutdown this weekend and allow quarreling lawmakers to punt most of their unfinished business into the new year.
Two men were arrested in Australia after the SUV in which they were travelling rammed into pedestrians on a busy central Melbourne street Thursday, leaving 14 people injured in what police believe was a deliberate act.
Driver negligence and speed caused a bus crash in southern Mexico that killed eight Americans, two Swedes, one Canadian and a Mexican tour guide as they traveled from cruise ships to visit nearby Mayan ruins, officials said Wednesday.
Declaring a victory in Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday visited a Russian military air base in the country and announced a partial pullout of Russian forces from the Mideast nation.
With a bill like a duck but teeth like a crocโs, a swanlike neck and killer claws, a new dinosaur species uncovered by scientists looks like something Dr. Seuss could have dreamed up.
Defying dire, worldwide warnings, President Donald Trump on Wednesday broke with decades of U.S. and international policy and formally recognized Jerusalem as Israelโs capital.
President Donald Trumpโs move to recognize Jerusalem as Israelโs capital on Wednesday could have deep repercussions across the region.
After 2 ยฝ months of relative quiet, North Korea launched its most powerful weapon yet early Wednesday, claiming a new type of intercontinental ballistic missile that some observers believe could reach Washington and the entire eastern U.S. seaboard.
North Korea abruptly ended a 10-week pause in its weapons testing Tuesday by launching what the Pentagon believes was an intercontinental ballistic missile, a move that will escalate already high tensions with Washington.
Egypt on Saturday said an attack on a mosque by militants in the countryโs troubled region of northern Sinai has killed 305 worshippers, including 27 children, a dramatic increase in the death toll previously announced, which was 235.
Oscar Pistoriusโ prison sentence was more than doubled to 13 years and five months on Friday, a surprisingly dramatic intervention by South Africaโs Supreme Court of Appeal in the Olympic athleteโs fate after the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
Workers at a half dozen Amazon distribution centers in Germany and one in Italy walked off the job Friday, in a protest timed to coincide with โBlack Fridayโ to demand better wages from the American online giant.
Egyptian state news agency MENA reports that 85 people have been killed in a bombing and shooting attack on a mosque in the volatile northern Sinai Peninsula, in what appeared to be the latest attack by the areaโs local Islamic State affiliate.
The relatives of the crew on the San Juan submarine are hoping for the best, but bracing for the worst.
Astronauts at the International Space Station will feast Thursday on pouches of Thanksgiving turkey.
The United Nationsโ Yugoslav war crimes tribunal convicted Bosnian Serb military chief Gen. Ratko Mladic on Wednesday of genocide and crimes against humanity, and sentenced him to life in prison for atrocities during Bosniaโs 1992-1995 war.
The Trump administration is due to announce new sanctions on North Korea on Tuesday after declaring it a state sponsor of terrorism in the latest push to isolate the pariah nation.
