Thomas Giuffra said armed police officers drew guns on the former student's boyfriend, brother and father after receiving a bogus tip that "someone was killing people in the house."

Hurricane Isaias is continuing to strengthen in the Gulf after becoming the first Atlantic hurricane of the season and is forecast to make landfall along the northern Gulf Coast later this week as a d...

(AP) — The USS Abraham Lincoln returned home to San Diego Bay Thursday after supporting the Iran war during a record long deployment of 265 uninterrupted days at sea that included reports of deteriora...

The Trump administration is struggling to get clear answers about the death of a Russian laboratory worker at an institute dedicated to studying the plague and has formally escalated its request for i...

Southwest Airlines will launch new direct flights from Pittsburgh International in summer 2027 as well as more frequent flights to several destinations.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The wife of Sri Lanka's powerful former President Mahinda Rajapaksa was detained Wednesday on allegations of misusing donations received for her charity when she was first la...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Thousands of Brazilian students marched in downtown Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday to protest against the possibility of Flávio Bolsonaro winning the presidency, after the far-right...

China added more gold to reserves last month, pushing a buying streak close to the two-year mark as prices weaken toward $4,000 an ounce.

Oil edged higher after a report that the White House asked the Pentagon to draw up strike options against Iran that could be executed before the midterm elections, and as a storm shut some US output.

Brent crude prices climbed back above $101 on Wednesday as attacked near the Strait of Hormuz increased and a looming storm threatened the Gulf coast region.

The Fed voted unanimously on Sept. 16 to raise rates, the first hike in three years.

The Democratic senator from Pennsylvania is underwater with his own party, a survey of the state shows. See by how much.

By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - The US Department of Homeland Security has proposed that international students pay at least $70,000 in training fees if they want to work in the country,

Oct 7 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump, asked by a reporter on Wednesday about mortgage rates, said the Federal Reserve Board "would like to see the country do badly".

So far, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has not responded to repeated calls from Pike's attorneys and death penalty observers to commute her sentence from the death penalty to life in prison.

Gains by the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq were overwhelmingly powered by gains in tech companies.

For the past 29 years, one of the few ways to get in touch with the North Korean government has been a phone number printed in the United Nations member directory.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he has a call scheduled with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss a possible case of plague at a Siberian research institute.Speaking to...

President Donald Trump’s trade war against Canada is allowing Prime Minister Mark Carney to press the gas pedal on an industrial agenda that would have been deeply divisive just a few years ago.

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq devalued its currency Wednesday, changing the official exchange rate from around 1,300 Iraqi dinars to the dollar to 1,500 dinars to the dollar.The country’s central bank said in a...

LOS ANGELES, Oct 6 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump suggested to a crowd of his supporters in Nebraska that Iran could "take out" a major US city like Los Angeles or San Diego, drawing a swift rebuk...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says inflation and bond yields will come back down once the conflict in Iran ends. Is he right?

The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) dropped by almost 800,000 barrels last week, and the Trump administration moved forward with plans to sell another 40 million barrels in the coming months.

MEDINA, Ohio, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Voters started lining up while it was still dark on Tuesday morning at the Medina County Board of Elections as early voting began in Ohio, a state that looms large in t...

As ICE widens its surveillance dragnet, activists plan a week of action to disrupt a major data network.

As consumers have become more aware of the need to choose sustainable palm oil, tools to help them navigate the thousands of products which may contain palm oil are being developed. The latest is the PalmOil Scan app, produced under the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) and lead by Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, Chester Zoo, and Auckland Zoo, which allows consumers to scan the bar-code of a product to check if the product you are about to purchase is “orangutan friendly” and certified susta

OSLO, Norway — Banning palm oil in favor of other vegetable oils deemed less destructive to the environment could lead to greater biodiversity losses, a new report says. The report by the Internationa...

Military families say Trump officials ‘owe us an apology’ after disparaging remarks by JD Vance, Pete Hegseth and others