Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday he has never seen tensions on the Korean peninsula as high as they are today and he called on the Security Council to take urgent action to prevent "provocative actions" by North Korea.
The House on Thursday backed election-year legislation that would temporarily halt the transfer of more terror suspects from the U.S. naval prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
A jury on Wednesday acquitted an Arizona woman accused of flashing underage boys at a bar mitzvah last year and performing a sex act on one of the teens.
An online petition is calling for an Iowa judge's removal after a 19-year-old man was spared jail time after pleading guilty to a child molestation charge involving a toddler.
The British government says the publicly funded BBC must reveal the salaries of all staff and presenters earning more than 150,000 pounds ($198,000) a year.
A 38-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a road rage incident involving a gun that occurred on the southbound shoulder of I-205 near Oregon City.
Libya's internationally recognized parliament, which is based in the far east and effectively runs this part of the country, has promoted a powerful general.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump released a summary Thursday of his latest physical examination and a letter from his doctor saying he is in “excellent physical health.”
The family of Sandra Bland, a Chicago-area black woman who died in a Texas jail cell after a contentious traffic stop last summer, has settled a wrongful death lawsuit for $1.9 million, according to the family's attorney.
A wounded fugitive wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of a police officer in North Carolina was captured by police in Rhode Island on Wednesday and was arraigned, state police said.
Authorities are investigating a shooting at a children's birthday party in Alabama that left a woman dead and a police officer wounded when he was struck by gunfire while responding to the slaying.
After giving birth on Sept. 18, 2011, Jara Heron was basking in the joy of motherhood, but 10 days afterward, as she went to pick up her newborn for nursing, a heavy weight overcame her chest, her left arm went numb, she vomited and, after screaming for help, everything went black.