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The girls disappeared while hiking in a forest.

A late replacement for Kevin Love in Sunday's All-Star game, Anthony set aside trade rumors and his team's off-court distractions in a brief period of "therapy."

(Beirut) - The Russian government appears to be breaking its promises to investigate civilian casualties from airstrikes in Syria, Human Rights Watch said today. In a letter sent to Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Nove...

About 15 people huddled in a luxury apartment building, munching on danishes as they plotted out their plan to have California secede from the United States. "I pledge allegiance, to the flag, of an independent Californi...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could be kicked out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London. If candidate Guillermo Lasso wins Sunday's election, he will give Assange, an Australian citizen, 30 days to move.

NASA scientists are calling for the moon to be ­reclassified as a planet. Investigator Alan Stern argues the Earth's moon -- along with the moons that orbit Jupiter and Saturn -- has "all the features of planets."

A growing roster of Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill say they believe President Donald Trump's pugnacious rhetoric and unpredictable behavior threaten to diminish the United States' standing around the world, do...

When the leaders of the Bolshevik movement--Lenin, Stalin, and the rest--used the term vrag naroda, an "enemy of the people," it was an ominous epithet that encompassed a range of "wreckers" and "socially dangerous eleme...

The number of asylum seekers continues to surge at the Canadian border.

They fled Malaysia the same day Kim Jong Un's half-brother was poisoned

Police in Thailand who spent three days in an orderly but unsuccessful search of a vast Buddhist temple for a prominent monk accused of financial wrongdoing appear to be preparing …

A Somali police officer says a blast at a busy market in the western part of Somalia's capital killed at least 15 people. Capt. Mohamed Hussein said the powerful blast …

The first lady's closest confidante is only a New York minute away, and it's the older sister nobody knows. Ines Knauss, 48, lives in a $2 million, one-bedroom apartment in a posh Park Avenue building owned by the Trump ...

The International Monetary Fund said Sunday that it and other partners have agreed on terms for a more than $5 billion loan package to the Mongolian government to help get …

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is telling friends and staff he is taking a role with the Trump administration, according to a source close to the White House. The GOP governor's position has not been worked out, but he w...

Prime Minister Trudeau says they will continue to pursue policies of openness towards immigration and refugees without compromising security.

PresidentDonald Trumpfalsely suggested at a Florida rally Saturday that Sweden had suffered a terror attack the previous night. After announcing that the White House planned to renew its efforts to restrict immigration, ...

Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) gave a staunch defense of the free press Saturday, noting that attacks on the media are “how dictators get started.” Speaking on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” to be aired Sunday, McCain ...

The N.B.A. All-Star Game was first played in 1951. Back then, it was a gimmick, and a single game. Now it's a multi-event circus that takes place over a long weekend. It came to New Orleans for the first time in 2008. Al...

A critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was hospitalized this month after suspected poisoning, has left the country to seek further treatment, the man's lawyer said Sunday.

The president repeated misleading statements on the vetting of refugees entering the United States and on the crime rate.

Paul Pierce is one of the oldest players in the NBA, and he has a reputation for being a little behind the times. During Saturday night’s dunk contest, the 39-year-old former Celtics forward (now with the Los Angeles C...