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Searchers used dogs, backhoes and shovels to dig through mud and debris Friday looking for survivors beneath the landslides caused by a powerful earthquake in northern Japan that left at …

President Trump and White House aides have come up with a list of 12 or so people suspected of being behind the anonymous op-ed published Wednesday by The New York Times, an outside adviser told the Times Thursday. The o...

WASHINGTON - President Trump backed down Thursday from his threats to shut down the government if he doesn't get enough funding from Congress to build a border wall with Mexico. "So most likely, I will not do that," Trum...

A former history teacher in Texas who admitted smoking pot and having sex with a 15-year-old student last year broke down in court as she was sentenced to eight years in prison. Michelle Schiffer, 24, got emotional on Th...

Former former USA Gymnastics trainer Debra Van Horn, who worked with Larry Nassar, was arrested on a charge of sexually assaulting a child

New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker turned a Supreme Court nomination hearing into a starring film role for himself Thursday -- ­bizarrely claiming "this is the closest I'll get to an 'I am Spartacus' moment." Booker...

An explosive wildfire spewing flames 300 feet into the air roared into a second northern California county Thursday after forcing closure of a stretch of the Pacific Coast’s primary interstate in both directions. Score...

Video posted on Wednesday violates 'abusive behavior' policy Action comes day after CEO Jack Dorsey testified to Congress One month after it distinguished itself from the rest of the tech industry by declining to bar the...

What are these? Sunglasses for ants?

President Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani walked back his comments that the president would not answer the special counsel questions about obstruction of justice - saying a final decision has not been reached, acco...

Boy, 16, attacked London shopkeeper Vijaykumar Patel after row over cigarette papers A teenage "time bomb" has been detained for four years for killing a shopkeeper who refused to sell him Rizla papers. Vijaykumar Patel,...

Shares of electric car maker Tesla Inc. tumbled about 7 percent as the markets opened Friday after the CEO appeared to smoke marijuana during a YouTube video podcast and the company's accounting chief left after a month ...

Hampstead theatre, LondonThe Broadway cast of Stephen Karam's award-winning play shine, but horror movie tropes detract from real-life fears Stephen Karam describes his play, which arrives from New York festooned with aw...

Western officials say the GRU, Russia's military intelligence agency, poses a growing menace around the world. Increasingly alarmed by the agency's foreign forays, Western nations are scrambling to protect themselves …...

Olympic champion Kristina Vogel says she "can't walk any more" after sustaining a serious spinal injury in a crash in June.

Met police conclude year-long inquiry after Lutfur Rahman found guilty by electoral court Scotland Yard has concluded there is insufficient evidence to prosecute any individual following a lengthy investigation into elec...

John Lennon "shines on" forever - in new stamps unveiled Friday by the United States Postal Service. The agency featured the former Beatle as part of its Music Icons series with a 1974 photo snapped by rock-and-roll phot...

The U.S. Army Europe says it's expanding its troop presence by adding 1,500 solders to its forces in Germany. The military said Friday that the new unit activations are scheduled …

Luther Yonger, the man known to walk six miles to and from the hospital to see his wife with cancer, runs part of that trek. He also does pushups.        

The economy is on track to grow 3 percent for the first time since 2005

President Trump's advisers briefly discussed the possibility of forcing members of his administration to undergo lie detector tests in an effort to weed out the senior official who penned the scathing op-ed in The New Yo...

A humanitarian disaster and use of chemical weapons are feared if an offensive on rebels begins.