Russian officials warned of severe environmental damage Wednesday as thousands of people came out to clean up tons of fuel ...

North Carolina's latest Democratic governor was sworn in to office on Wednesday, as Josh Stein succeeded Roy Cooper once ...

A driver behind the wheel of a pickup truck rammed into a crowd of New Orleans revelers on Bourbon Street early on New Year’s ...

The Superdome, set to host a College Football Playoff quarterfinal game between Georgia and Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl on ...

Tribal elders backed by local authorities in restive northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday brokered a peace deal between ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Police say a person who drove a pickup truck at high speed into a crowd of people celebrating the new year ...

Protesters in Syria held a sit-in Wednesday demanding justice for four activists who were forcibly disappeared in 2013 and ...

Pope Francis ushered in the New Year with an appeal for the faithful to reject abortion, calling for a “firm commitment” to ...

This weekend's NFC North matchup between the Detroit Lions and Minnesota Vikings will make for a playoff situation like never ...

Arnold Rüütel, the last communist leader of Soviet Estonia and the Baltic country’s second president after the restoration of ...

PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Several people were killed in a shooting on Wednesday in the Montenegrin city of Cetinje, police and local media said. The shooter is on the run. Police dispatched special ...

The new year will bring a pair of lunar eclipses, but don’t expect any sun-disappearing acts like the one that mesmerized ...