China’s leader Xi Jinping wants the recent spree of mass killings that shocked the country not to happen again. He ordered ...

India’s former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, widely regarded as the architect of India’s economic reform program and a ...

A federal judge says an Alabama woman accusing Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs of raping her when she was 13 years old can ...

Police are investigating a shooting at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix that left two people wounded by gunfire and another ...

Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez is asking a federal judge to delay his end-of-January sentencing on bribery charges, saying his ...

A female pygmy hippopotamus delivered a healthy calf at the Metro Richmond Zoo earlier this month. She is the third baby ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The minimum wage in Illinois will increase to $15 an hour on Jan. 1, completing a six-year transition ...

Government officials tell The Associated Press that Haiti’s health minister has been removed from his post after a deadly ...

U.S. officials say they asked for — and got — the retraction of an independent monitor's warning of imminent famine in north ...

Houthi rebels in Yemen say Israeli airstrikes have targeted the rebel-held capital of Sanaa and the port city of Hodeida. The ...