Vice President Kamala Harris called climate change an “immediate” and “urgent” crisis as she detailed more than $1 billion in federal spending to respond to disasters such as deadly flooding in Kentucky and wildfires ravaging her home state of California.
Nothing is easy in Washington even when lawmakers broadly agree what should be done to fix a problem. So it was with the effort to spend billions on the U.S. computer chip sector. The back story shows how the Biden team got it done with GOP help.
Spain’s prime minister said Monday that the Western Balkans are an integral part of the European Union and Spain fully backs the region’s integration into the 27-member bloc.
Pope Francis will travel next month to Kazakhstan, where he could meet with Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, who has justified Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
A U.S. airstrike has killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri in Afghanistan, according to a person familiar with the matter.
President Joe Biden is expected to discuss further details of the operation in a 7:30 p.m. EST address to the nation.
Lebanon and Israel are getting closer to reaching a deal in a more than a decade-old maritime border dispute between the two neighbors, a U.S. envoy and Lebanese officials said Monday.
President Joe Biden is set to address the nation Monday following what the White House says was a “successful” counterterrorism operation on an al-Qaida target in Afghanistan over the weekend.
Poles on Monday marked the 78th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, a doomed 1944 revolt against Nazi German forces, with some including the president comparing the wartime Polish resistance to that of Ukrainians today fighting Russia's invasion.
Ron Howard takes on the story of the 2018 rescue of a boys’ soccer team from the Tham Luang cave in the new film “Thirteen Lives."
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A South Carolina inmate who killed four people in two states is off death row after a federal appeals court ruled the judge who sentenced him to die nearly two decades ago did not consider his abusive childhood or mental illness.
The parents of a Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim have a complex form of post-traumatic stress disorder and a constant fear that followers of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones will kill them, a psychiatrist testified at Jones’ defamation trial.
Texas man who stormed Capitol on Jan. 6 with gun, helmet and body armor sentenced to more than seven years in prison. It's the longest sentence to date.
The U.S. has sanctioned a United Arab Emirates-based firm and several Asian companies for facilitating the illicit sale of millions of dollars' worth of Iranian oil for shipment to East Asia.
A group of top climate scientists say the world needs to think about the ultimate climate catastrophe, human extinction, calling it “a dangerously underexplored topic.”
The White House is criticizing Beijing’s rhetoric over an expected visit by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, vowing the U.S. “will not take the bait" and has no interest in increasing tensions with China.
Newly elected President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said Monday the Philippines has no plan to rejoin the International Criminal Court, a decision that supports his predecessor's stance but rejects the wishes of human rights activists.
As Russian troops try to achieve the Kremlin’s goal of securing full control over the country’s eastern industrial heartland, Ukrainian forces are scaling up attacks to reclaim territory in the south, making inroads with U.S.-supplied rocket launchers.
WNBA star Brittney Griner is set to return to Russian court on Tuesday, as the Biden Administration faces rising calls for action to win her release.
Griner could face 10 years in prison if convicted of cannabis possession.
Another round of storms hit disaster areas in eastern Kentucky Monday.
The death toll rose to 30 as search and rescue operations continue in communities trying to recover from massive flooding, Gov. Andy Beshear said.
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The NFL suspended Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson for six games following allegations of sexual assault or harassment by 24 women.
Here's a closer look into the league's disciplinary process.
Late NFL linebacker Sam Mills may have been nicknamed "Field Mouse," but former Saints quarterback Bobby Hebert says he was a "mighty mouse" and a deserving Hall of Fame inductee.
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Beyoncé is removing an offensive term for disabled people from a new song on her record "Renaissance," just weeks after rapper Lizzo also changed lyrics to remove the same word.
Some roads in and out of Death Valley National Park have been closed after they were inundated over the weekend with mud and debris from flash floods that also hit western Nevada and northern Arizona hard.
A man who was serving life sentences for killing four people at a North Dakota business in what authorities say was one of the state's most gruesome crimes has killed himself in prison, authorities said.
In Colombia, GPS satellite trackers in government-assigned vehicles keep tabs in real time on more than 3,700 high-risk individuals including journalists, indigenous activists and labor organizers.
Privacy experts call the system illegal.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is providing $2.8 billion in fresh funding for homeless services organizations across the country.
The new funding will be allocated via competitive bids through HUD’s Continuum of Care Program.
More than 80 men suspected of the gang rapes of eight women and the armed robbery of a video production crew in the South African town of Krugersdorp, west of Johannesburg, appeared in court on Monday.
Authorities said two bodies were found inside a burned vehicle in the path of a raging Northern California wildfire that is one of several major blazes burning across the U.S. West amid hot, dry, gusty conditions.
Some 7,000 fans — many of them mothers and daughters — jammed into London’s Trafalgar Square to celebrate England’s victory in the 2022 women’s European championship.
Organizers hope it'll open opportunities for more girls to play the game in England.
Joe Cunningham has chosen Tally Parham Casey, a civil litigator who flew fighter jets during three combat tours over Iraq, to be his running mate in his quest to become South Carolina's first Democratic governor in 20 years.
In Kansas, voters could clear the way for the Republican-controlled Legislature to further restrict or ban abortion if they approve a proposed state constitutional change — the first referendum vote on abortion policy by a state post Roe v. Wade.
Trump has also zeroed in on the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach him over the insurrection. Three of them are on the ballot in Washington state and Michigan.
Arizona, which President Joe Biden narrowly won in 2020, is a top target for former President Donald Trump. He has endorsed a slate of candidates up and down the ballot who have promoted his false claims of a stolen election.
In Michigan, a crowded field of Republican gubernatorial candidates includes a man charged in the Jan. 6 attack. In Arizona, a prominent figure in the QAnon conspiracy movement is running for the U.S. House.
Here's what to watch in Tuesday’s primaries.