A Tennessee Air National Guardsman is facing charges after applying to be a hitman on a spoof "rent-a-hitman" website, according to the Department of Justice.
As former President Donald Trump and his allies attack Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is prosecuting Trump on felony charges of falsifying business records, the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing Monday in Manhattan to castigate Bragg for his handling of violent crime.
A nomadic empire dominated the Asian steppes for three centuries from 200 BC, trading goods on the Silk Road, building elaborate tombs for its dead and conquering distant lands on horseback.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and China's Defense Minister Li Shangfu met Sunday in Moscow, where the two hailed their countries' close military cooperation.
Justice Clarence Thomas intends to amend his financial disclosure forms to reflect a 2014 real estate deal he made with a GOP megadonor -- an acknowledgment that the transaction should have been disclosed almost a decade ago, a source close to Thomas tells CNN.
• Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza given 25 years in prison for condemning war in Ukraine
• Ukraine accuses Moscow of threatening grain initiative as Russia says prospects for extension not improving
Dominion Voting Systems' high-stakes defamation trial against Fox News, which was supposed to begin Monday, was abruptly delayed on Sunday evening, in a stunning eleventh-hour twist that threw into question whether a settlement was in the works.
A year ago, Natalia's life was upended by war. With her family, she fled the fighting in Ukraine's southeastern city of Mariupol and crossed into Russia.
Separatist rebels in Indonesia's Papua region say they have killed at least 13 Indonesian military soldiers after the army sent troops in search of captured New Zealand pilot, Phillip Mehrtens, who was taken hostage in February.
A court in Tehran convicted as many as 10 Iranian military personnel on Sunday for their involvement in the shooting down of Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752 in 2020, according to Iran's semi-official Mehr News.
The defamation clash between Fox News and a small election services firm, due to go to trial this week, represents the most significant moment yet in which those who disseminated former President Donald Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was stolen must answer for conduct that is still poisoning American democracy.
Although smoking rates for adults in the US are at their lowest recorded levels, more must be done to stop children from using tobacco, according to a new set of policy statements from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
When Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen defied warnings from China to meet with US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California earlier this month, Beijing's aggressive military response reverberated around the world.
• Teenager shot by a homeowner after going to the wrong house to pick up siblings, Kansas City police say
• Family of victim and survivors of FedEx mass shooting file lawsuit against gun magazine manufacturer and distributors
After the shock came the aftershocks, the power vacuum, and perhaps most significantly and impressively, the laughs, as "Succession" pivoted to face life after Logan Roy, in an episode that finally put the HBO show's title into full flower.
A trial in a defamation suit brought against Fox News by Dominion Voting Systems is set to begin this week. It could have significant ramifications for the right-wing cable channel.
Former Democratic senator Al Franken reacts to a new ad attacking former President Donald Trump released by a political action committee that wants Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to run for president in 2024.
Former President Donald Trump's criminal indictment helped jolt his fundraising. GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley faces questions about her campaign math. Embattled New York Rep. George Santos refunded more contributions than he took in. And some -- but not all -- of the Democratic Party's most vulnerable Senate incumbents have stepped up their fundraising ahead of tough 2024 election fights.
A substitute teacher in north Texas was fired after she "encouraged students to fight each other during class," the Mesquite Independent School District said.
A former lawmaker in India's parliament, convicted of kidnapping, was shot dead along with his brother while police were escorting them for a medical check-up in a slaying caught on live television on Saturday.
