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HBO needed an actor to portray pulp fiction's most successful criminal defense attorney. Rhys, an Emmy-winner for "The Americans," took the case.

Two women became the first legally married same-sex couple in Costa Rica when a notary wearing a face mask pronounced them "wife and wife."

The black bird watcher who filmed white dog owner Amy Cooper calling the cops on him in Central Park says she’s received death threats — which he urged must “stop immediately.” Christian Cooper, who is not relate...

The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is “almost perfectly human adapted” — lending credence to the possibility it was man-made in a Chinese lab, a top Australian vaccine researcher says. Nikolai Petrovsky was shock...

A group of Republican lawmakers have filed a lawsuit against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over the chamber's new proxy voting system, which allows lawmakers to designate another member to vote on their behalf due to the co...

"I don't use insulin," Trump said Tuesday. "Should I be? Huh? I never thought about it. But I know a lot of people are very badly affected, right? Unbelievable."       

A Twitter spokesperson told USA TODAY that the two tweets "contain potentially misleading information" about the voting process.       

Republican Senator Richard Burr, however, remains under investigation for his financial transactions.

Newly released video obtained by CNN network partner Univision shows the moment a Florida woman who's been arrested in the death of her 9-year-old son pushes him into a canal.

For the past few months UK and EU negotiators have been locked in talks trying to thrash out a trade deal before 1 January. But after the chief negotiators, Michel Barnier and David Frost, exchanged testy letters last we...

Chechen strongman did not confirm hospitalisation but appeared to have cannula in arm Coronavirus - latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Chechnya's autocratic leader Ramzan Kadyrov has reappeared in public for...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to regulate or shut down social media companies, a day after Twitter Inc for the first time added a fact-checking label to some of his tweets about mail-in ballots.

Valladolid archaeologists find human skull in chapel where Christopher Columbus was also buried Somewhere beneath a street in north-west Spain - probably between a bank branch and a budget clothes shop - lies the ruined ...

Plan to help EU states hardest hit by coronavirus faces resistance from 'frugal four' The European Union executive has called for a €750bn (£671bn) recovery plan to help the hardest hit countries find a way out of the...

Guadalupe Velazquez has a college degree, owns a flooring company and is pregnant with a baby girl due next month.

Anti-government protesters are angry over new proposed laws which they say damage the freedoms of Hong Kong's people.

Thousands of Chinese troops reportedly move into sensitive areas along Himalayan frontier Tensions between China and India over their Himalayan border have escalated, with China accused of moving thousands of troops into...

The unusual rebuke from Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley comes amid scrutiny of Trump's decision to fire the State Department's inspector general.       

A naked man broke into a shuttered Florida high school and trashed the building, leaving $100,000 in damages in a 22-hour vandalism spree.

Japan’s Cabinet has approved a proposed 32 trillion-yen ($296 billion) supplementary budget to help fund measures to cushion the blow to the economy from the coronavirus pandemic

Mediterranean beaches and Las Vegas casinos have set out plans to reopen to tourists as economies lurch back to life where coronavirus infections are receding

Charging documents say a longtime prison reform advocate accused of preparing to stage an escape at a jail that's under construction had walls built in a basement so he could learn how to break through them