A 2-year-old boy is missing after D.C. police said his mother was fatally shot in an alley Tuesday night in Northwest ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the way for a soldier seriously wounded while attempting to thwart a suicide bombing ...

LONDON — Opponents of smoking got a breath of fresh air as Parliament passed a bill that will put cigarettes out of reach for ...

Government paid nothing because some federal appellate courts recognize (and others do not) a police-power exception to the ...

Climate scientist Daniel Swain described this increasingly extreme marine heat wave as an “exceptional event” that’s breaking ...

KYIV — European Union officials on Wednesday took a key step toward approving a loan of roughly $105 billion for Ukraine, ...

The measure puts Democrats ahead in the battle for the House, but attention now shifts to Florida, where Republicans could ...

A Virginia referendum to redraw the state’s congressional districts is set to upend House races, turning some contests newly ...

PARIS — French-Algerian author Kamel Daoud said Wednesday that he has been sentenced to three years in prison in Algeria for ...

TOKYO — A South Korean national holding a banner carrying political messages was arrested Wednesday for allegedly obstructing an annual spring festival at Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, Japanese police said ...

At the Unity Dinners, students engage in word games and frank talk. Pittsburgh will host a dinner this week, with a tour of ...

LONDON — Four debut novelists are among six books on a U.S.-dominated list of finalists for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction, which is open to female English-language writers from any country.