The ban, which will take effect on Jan. 1, is based on health and environmental grounds and is a groundbreaking move for ...

Gabriel Esparza, who resides in Charlotte, will become North Carolina’s first Latino Cabinet member when he's sworn in with ...

Footage of the crash aired by YTN television showed the Jeju Air plane skidding across the airstrip, apparently with its ...

Big Lots said Friday it will be sold to Gordon Brothers Retail Partners, a firm that specializes in distressed companies.

The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, says he and his United Nations colleagues "escaped ...

Yellen told Congress her agency will need to start taking "extraordinary measures," or special accounting maneuvers intended ...

Gaza's Health Ministry said Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, was arrested by Israeli forces along ...

Magnus Carlsen, the world's top chess player, has quit the World Rapid Chess Championship being held in New York after ...

The National Weather Service said it confirmed several tornadoes had touched down outside of Houston on Saturday.

Severe thunderstorms and an outbreak of tornadoes could disrupt holiday travel Saturday. More than 3,000 flights were delayed ...

In December 1999, the world prepared for the impending global meltdown known as Y2K. It all stemmed from a seemingly small ...

The faiths in our family include skepticism. But we have come to think of prayers not as a list of wishes hurled into the ...