A Powerball ticket sold at a gas station in western Illinois was the sole winner of the $1 billion jackpot, ending a three-month drought without a top-prize victor. The ticket that won the jackpot ...

Americans overwhelmingly see major benefits to children playing organized sports, a new poll finds, but higher-income ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday made his first visit to the Kuril Islands, a Moscow-controlled Pacific archipelago that also is claimed by Japan, which voiced a diplomatic ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An explosion at the Dutch port of Rotterdam on Thursday killed at least one person and injured several others, city police said. Police said the blast at Europe’s biggest ...

There’s barely any snow in sight above Adelboden in the intense August sunshine, never mind skiers. But the Swiss resort may ...

DALLAS (AP) — A California couple’s surrogate who went to Texas in an escalating dispute over treating a congenital heart condition gave birth Wednesday, a day after a judge in Dallas ordered ...

Tropical Storm Cristobal well west of the Azores was expected to dissipate while a Pacific storm system could threaten Hawaii ...

Three men in Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma are scheduled for lethal injection Thursday in a rare convergence of executions on the same day in the U.S. A man in Tennessee faces execution for killing ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have detained two Afghan members of the U.N. political mission in the country, the United ...

Lawyers for the man charged with killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk say he shouldn’t be eligible for the death ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Tropical Storm Hernan formed Thursday in the Pacific Ocean and wasn’t threatening land while a different storm system that could bring heavy rain and flooding this weekend moved toward ...

Performance SUVs are supposed to demand sacrifice. They usually cost more, consume more fuel, ride more aggressively and provide less practical space than the sensible models ...