The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits held steady last week, though continuing claims rose to the highest level in three years. The US Labor Department reported Thursday that ...

Mozambique’s police chief has said that at least 6,000 inmates have escaped from a high-security prison in the capital on Christmas Day after a rebellion, as widespread post-election riots and ...

Gaza’s Health Ministry says five Palestinian journalists have been killed by an Israeli strike. Israel’s military said it targeted a group of militants allied with Hamas, which ignited the war with ...

Police are investigating a Christmas shooting at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix that left three people injured by gunfire and another person stabbed. Phoenix police said the evening shooting happened ...

Republicans plan to move quickly in their effort to overhaul the nation’s voting procedures, seeing an opportunity with control of the White House and both chambers of Congress to push through ...

Associated Press The Native American Church is considered the most widespread religious movement among the Indigenous people of North America. It holds sacred the peyote cactus, which grows naturally ...

It was some scary moments for many in Capitola Village Christmas morning. People who live in the area say they heard an ...

CNN By Hassan Tayir, Aruzhan Zeinulla and Kara Fox, CNN Astana, Kazakhstan (CNN) — An Azerbaijani airliner carrying 67 people ...

The crash of an Azerbaijani airliner in Kazakhstan has killed 38 of 67 people on board. Azerbaijan Airlines’ Embraer 190 was en route from Azerbaijani capital Baku to the Russian city of Grozny in the ...

A lot of Americans, after an intense presidential election campaign, are looking for a break in political news. That’s evident in cable television news ratings and a poll from The Associated ...

Russia’s top security agency says that it has arrested several suspects accused of involvement in an alleged Ukrainian plot to assassinate senior military officers. The annoucnement on Thursday ...

Estonia’s government was to hold an extraordinary meeting Thursday as investigators try to find out what disrupted a Baltic Sea power cable bringing electricity from Finland, Estonia’s prime minister ...