Persistent wind will keep temperatures down on Wednesday as Long Island awaits a nor'easter this weekend. NewsdayTV meteorologist Geoff Bansen has the forecast.

Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman in New York in 2006.

DURHAM, N.C. — Chris Spatola, a college basketball analyst and son-in-law of retired Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, has died. He was 47. The Krzyzewski family announced Spatola's death in a statement ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — More than a dozen words long used in Bermuda and across the Caribbean got an official nod on Wednesday from the Oxford English Dictionary.

State police are examining whether the fatal crashes one week apart at the Sunken Meadow State Park toll booth plaza in Kings Park are connected — and if they were intentional acts, copycats or ...

President Vladimir Putin says Russia's first wartime parliamentary election, which further strengthened the Kremlin's already-overwhelming legislative control, was a sign of public support for his ...

McDonald's said Wednesday it will spend $8.5 billion over the next decade to modernize its restaurants globally.

Indian tennis player Parikshit Somani has been banned for four years in a doping case after judges dismissed an explanation he gave that was similar to the case of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva ...

The new movie "Forgotten Island" offers a magical journey through Filipino folklore, using a sand dollar as a portal to an animated wonderland.

The contested Indian Ocean archipelago that is home to a strategically important U.K.-U.S. military base has been in limbo since U.S. President Donald Trump in January criticized a deal by the U.K.

Italian Minister of Environment and Energy Security Gilberto Pichetto Fratin attends a debate prior to a vote to give the final approval to legislation paving the way for the eventual return of ...

The World Health Organization warns that Congo is running short of health workers to staff treatment centers for the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history.