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ATHENS, Ala. -- A 15-year-old girl accused of fatally stabbing her mother and older sister has been arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder. Limestone County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Stephen Young says...

Correspondence obtained by USA TODAY shows behind-the-scenes work ofthe Republican-led committee as it attempts toinvestigate accusations made against Kavanaugh.        

CLINTON, La. -- It's been 15 years since inmate Lonnie Payne called Louisiana's East Feliciana Parish Prison his home, but a sheriff's official says that's about to change. Criminal Deputy Greg Phares said late Friday th...

A group of pirates attacked a Swiss cargo ship off the coast of Nigeria on Saturday, kidnapping 12 crew members in a region that has seen dozens of similar attacks so far this year.

Gaza's Hamas rulers say their indirect cease-fire talks with Israel have halted. Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri on Sunday blamed the impasse on the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority, which has …

Severe floods have struck northeastern Tunisia, killing at least four people and damaging homes, bridges, roads and fields. Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed visited the town of Nabeul, about 70 …

Police in the German city of Dortmund say they will examine whether they were tough enough in handling a pair of far-right demonstrations during which they say an anti-Semitic slogan …

The regulation of seat width and legroom is part of a five-year program

A Dalai Lama wannabe was more like a gross Svengali, according to a damning new report. Once one of the world's most respected Buddhist teachers, Sogyal Rinpoche forced his devotees to have sex with him and wipe his butt...

Supporters of a lawmaker slain by Maoist insurgents in southern India on Sunday attacked two police stations in anger over the killing, setting fire to one and vandalizing the other, police said.

An Egyptian court has sentenced 64 people to varying prison terms and one man to death over violence in 2013 when the military overthrew the elected Islamist president. The Sunday …

An al-Qaida-linked group has rejected a deal reached this month between Russia and Turkey to establish a demilitarized zone in Syria's Idlib region vowing not to withdraw from the area. …

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said administration officials who feel they cannot back President Trump should find “something else to do.” “If you can't be on the team, if you're not supporting this mission, maybe ...

The U.S. considered the People's Mujahedin of Iran a terrorist group until 2012

Campaigning for Indonesia's presidential election officially began Sunday with the two contenders releasing white doves and vowing a peaceful race as concerns simmer the campaign will sharpen religious and ethnic …

Huge crowds flocked to closely guarded polling station on Sunday to vote in the Maldives' third multiparty presidential elections, widely seen as a referendum on the island nation's young democracy. …

It has been heralded as a vision of the future. A $10.75 billion infrastructure investment connecting Hong Kong with China's high-speed rail network.

Sign language is an essential tool of communication for tens of thousands of deaf and deafblind people around the world. But in some places, barriers to the use of sign language mean that many children and adults who are...

As the Senate Judiciary Committee staff negotiates with attorneys for Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of a past sexual assault, over a potential hearing on Thursday,...

Militants disguised as soldiers opened fire on an annual Iranian military parade in the country's oil-rich southwest, killing at least 25 people and wounding over 60 in the deadliest terror attack to strike the country i...

The Trump administration is proposing a new policy that would in effect make immigrants chose between staying in the U.S. or getting public help.        

The allegations, if proven, would suggest that a small group of faculty at the Manhattan campus, long the choice of law enforcement, presided over an academic underworld.