Headline News

HARTFORD, Conn. -- A white graduate student at Yale called police on a black graduate student who had fallen asleep in a common area of their campus residence -- an episode that a dean said shows the need for efforts to ...

A 104-year-old scientist who flew to Switzerland to legally end his life says he's ready to die on Thursday.

Through a secretive shell company, the president's personal lawyer was paid by major corporations and a law firm for help navigating Washington in the Trump era.

A man serving a life sentence for killing a Michigan teenager in 1986 bragged to inmates that he murdered at least six other girls, police said Wednesday. Warren Police Commissioner William Dwyer said the alleged admissi...

After questioning the student for more than 15 minutes, police confirmed she was a Yale student who lived in the building and then left.        

Three people suffered bites when the kittens they rescued after hearing them mewling turned out to be ravenous bobcat cubs .

WASHINGTON/SEOUL

Michael Cohen is claiming that Stormy Daniels’ lawyer may be using illegally obtained bank documents to create “a toxic mix of misinformation” about him. Cohen said in court papers filed Wednesday that Michael Aven...

Sen. John McCain urged his Senate colleagues Wednesday night to reject Gina Haspel's nomination for CIA director, saying she failed to adequately answer questions about her role in the agency's past torture program.   ...

As part of National Security Adviser John Bolton's full overhaul of the National Security Council, he's "leading the push to abolish the role of special assistant to the president and cybersecurity coordinator," the top ...

On her 105th birthday Wednesday, Frances Abbracciamento shared the secret to long life.

Iranian forces based in Syria fired approximately 20 rockets toward Israeli positions in the Golan Heights, triggering a retaliatory bombardment that rocked Syria's capital late into the night Wednesday.

The modified Boeing 757 had taken off from Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington late Monday night, bound for North Korea, when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo came to the back of the plane.

Russia and Germany say efforts must be taken to preserve the nuclear deal with Iran following the U.S. exit. German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said after Thursday's talks with his …

Chinese state media say a court in Shanghai has sentenced the founder of the Chinese insurance company that owns New York City's Waldorf Hotel to 18 years in prison after …

Using cartilage from her ribs

A court in Vietnam has sentenced a Facebook user to 4 ½ years in jail for posts that the court said distorted the political situation in the country and opposed …

Iranian forces based in Syria fired 20 rockets at Israeli front-line military positions in the Golan Heights early Thursday, the Israeli military said, triggering a heavy Israeli reprisal and escalating …

A handful of moderate Republican lawmakers defied party leaders and took steps Wednesday toward forcing campaign-season House votes on immigration -- and one maverick predicted they had the votes to succeed. "We feel ver...

Tens of thousands of Nicaraguans have joined one of the largest marches to date in weeks of protests against a government crackdown on dissent. The protesters in the capital called …

Confrontation between Israel and Iranian forces in Syria sharply escalated in the early hours of Thursday as Israel said Iran launched a barrage of 20 missiles toward its positions on the Golan Heights. Heavy military je...

Myanmar's military is accused of widespread human rights violations