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Expand Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Mike Pompeo testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., February 13, 2018. © 2018 Reuters United States Secretary of State Mi...

China omitted a 2020 economic growth target for the first time and pledged government support for the economy in Premier Li Keqiang's work report on Friday, launching the country's annual parliament meeting.

Help get this pup out of the Middle East. American soldiers stationed in Syria were on a mission when they heard a small whimpering puppy crying. They stumbled upon a litter of five dead puppies, but one was still alive ...

CBS unveiled its primetime lineup for the fall during a presentation in New York City on Wednesday. Meg Oliver has the scoop on all the new dramas and comedies coming to America's most-watched TV network.

The founder of travel website The Points Guy explains how donated airline miles helped LGBT Chechnyans escape persecution and violence.

Illinois House votes for expanded voting by mail, but a budget plan remains elusive

China's proposed new legislation for Hong Kong requires the territory to quickly finish enacting national security regulations under its mini-constitution, the Basic law, according to a draft of the legislation seen by R...

A former Philadelphia election official has pleaded guilty to taking thousands of dollars in bribes to stuff the ballot boxes for Democrats in local races between 2014 and 2016. Domenick J. DeMuro, 73, a former judge of ...

Several people on the Zoom video conference called 911, and the police arrested the son less than an hour later.

The Florida deputies who were charged after a viral video emerged of them roughing up a teen last year say their actions were justified under the state's stand-your-ground law, a report said. Lawyers for former Broward C...

A 6-year-old South Carolina boy who was "magnet fishing" in a lake caught a locked safe that was stolen from a nearby resident eight years ago. Knox Brewer reeled in his surprise catch at Whitney Lake with the help of a ...

"Empire" actor Bryshere Gray was a "nuisance tenant" who clogged toilets with condoms and let his dog relieve himself indoors, according to a lawsuit filed last month by his Chicago landlords.

Joe Biden told the host of a New York City-based syndicated radio show that he "ain't black" if he was still pondering whether to support the presumptive Democratic nominee or Donald Trump.

An Airbus plane with 99 on board crashed into a residential area of the Pakistani city of Karachi on Friday while on approach to the airport, with at least one passenger surviving but many others feared dead, officials s...

On this week's FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Galen Druke speaks with two experts about the different reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe and in China.

The territory's stock market plunged amid expectations that money would soon be leaving the Asian financial hub, which faces tough new measures from Beijing and retaliation from the United States.

Asked whether Sen. Amy Klobuchar had been vetted by his team, Joe Biden said "no one has been vetted yet" for the vice-presidential slot.       

Three weeks after Kim Jong Un was last seen publicly, questions continue to swirl about his whereabouts as a South Korean daily cited a Seoul official as saying the reclusive leader may simply be carrying out his duties ...

The CDC says it's open to using antibody tests to get Americans back to work, if the results can prove you are immune to COVID-19. But with so many unknowns around the testing, the only thing results can provide is closu...

Jon Lee Anderson writes that, as Brazil's rates of coronavirus infection and mortality continue to climb, President Jair Bolsonaro is behaving with absolute and deterministic irresponsibility.

China dropped its annual growth target for the first time on Friday and pledged more government spending as the COVID-19 pandemic hammers the world's second-biggest economy, setting a sombre tone to this year's meeting o...

U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday threatened to reexamine the U.S.-Chinese relationship if Beijing pursues a "further crackdown" on Hong Kong, after China was set to impose new national security l...