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Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez summed up political moderation as mediocrity and blasted former Presidents Ronald Reagan and Franklin Roosevelt for their racist policies. "Moderate is not a stance. It’s just ...

Nyarong Atti fought against Chinese rule but now follows developments in his homeland helplessly from afar Every year on 10 March, Nyarong Atti spends the day praying for Tibetans around the world. He offers pujas, or pr...

Comedian Jim Gaffigan admits he has a journalism addiction. But how could anyone deny the all-consuming nature of the news - the drama, the mystery, the indictments?

A police officer was killed and several health workers injured in an attack on an Ebola treatment center in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday, authorities said--the second such assault in the last two weeks. T...

Senior Department of Homeland Security officials are in hot water for a post calling controversial freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) a "Trojan horse" on social media. The post shared by Immigration and Customs Enforceme...

Shaw, 23, has been missing for five days after staying on Lake Atitlan near capital, Guatemala City The parents of a 23-year-old British woman missing in Guatemala for five days say they have "great concern for her safet...

British Home Secretary Sajid Javid faced criticism Saturday after the death of a UK teenager's baby in a Syrian camp. Shamima Begum, who had left London as a 15-year-old in 2015 to join the Islamic State group, had plead...

Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden topped a poll of Iowa voters on Saturday that also showed Senator Bernie Sanders gaining momentum against him in the No. 2 spot.

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reunite more families that were separated at the border. US District Judge Dana Sabraw ruled the government must bring parents and children who were separated as early ...

The Trump administration has been internally discussing how to get countries that host US troops in times of peace to pay more of the cost of keeping those troops stationed there.

Every year, federal agents across the country run a massive sting operation called Operation Cross Country to get dangerous traffickers off the streets and save sexually abused minors.

The head of the U.N. women's agency is calling for the revolution in technology to be used to benefit the world's poor, and especially women, who will not achieve gender …

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt says he is looking for ways to help the children of British citizens who joined the Islamic State group in Syria. Hunt told the BBC …

The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board will send four people to assist in the fatal Ethiopian Airlines crash, an NTSB spokesman said on Sunday.

Stockholm police say a natural gas-powered bus that didn't have any passengers on it caught fire from an explosion in Sweden's capital, but there were no signs it was terror-related

The Ethiopian Airlines plane lost contact six minutes after takeoff Sunday.

The PM has been accused of demonising Israeli Arabs in lead-up to April election Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel "was not a state of all its citizens" on Sunday in a reference to the country's Arab population. The prime m...

A reconstruction of the moment when a truck bearing humanitarian supplies was set on fire shows the likely cause was a Molotov cocktail thrown by a protester.

The Venezuelan leader's remarks came during a day of protests by pro-government and opposition groups.

Exclusive: account exposes failures of US intelligence, which put $10m bounty on Mullah Omar The Taliban's elusive one-eyed leader, Mullah Omar, lived within walking distance of US bases in Afghanistan for years, and Ame...

The attack reportedly took place about 6:40 p.m. Saturday at the Wildlife World Zoo in Litchfield Park, Arizona.        

Shadow chancellor thinks priority should not be seeking a second referendum John McDonnell has said Labour must focus on defeating Theresa May's EU deal and delaying Brexit to secure a better agreement, rather than tryin...