California Gov. Gavin Newsom drew loud cheers and applause on Wednesday when he spoke at the UN's Climate Ambition Summit in New York, after pointedly calling the climate crisis "a fossil fuel crisis."
A 2-year-old girl who walked barefoot more than three miles with her family's two dogs was found sleeping off a wooded Michigan trail using the smaller dog as a pillow, authorities said.
The Venezuelan government invited journalists to tour the Tocoron Penitentiary Center in Aragua state on Saturday -- days after security forces reclaimed control of a prison that has spent many years under the control of gangs.
Tropical Storm Ophelia is heading up the East Coast after making landfall near Emerald Isle, North Carolina, early Saturday, delivering heavy rain, strong winds and coastal flooding well beyond its center.
Even China's population of 1.4 billion would not be enough to fill all the empty apartments littered across the country, a former official said on Saturday, in a rare public critique of the country's crisis-hit property market.
After a week at the UN General Assembly dominated by discussion of Russia's war in Ukraine, Moscow struck back on Saturday, with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov addressing delegates first in a speech to the General Assembly hall, then turning to the international press in a wide-ranging briefing full of recriminations against the West -- which he described as an "empire of lies."
US Women's National Team star Megan Rapinoe, a two-time Women's World Cup winner, said she is most proud of her team's advocacy work off the field, as she reflected on her career ahead of her final match on Sunday.
Until recently, the upscale homes of the Redhill Peninsula seemed like an oasis for rich Hong Kongers aspiring to a tranquil lifestyle in an otherwise notoriously cramped metropolis of 7.5 million.
New Jersey Democratic Rep. Andy Kim announced Saturday that he'll run next year against Sen. Bob Menendez in the wake of the senator's indictment and refusal to step down.
Rep. Garret Graves, one of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's closest allies, told CNN that he's fed up with conservative critics dangling the threat of McCarthy's ouster, saying that he's prepared to put the debate to rest by forcing a vote on the threat.
Ukraine says a strike on Russia's Black Sea Fleet headquarters in the Crimean city of Sevastopol left dozens dead and wounded "including senior leadership."
The transportation company that owns the bus involved in a fatal crash in New York this week while bringing high school students to a band camp was listed as an "unacceptable operator" by the state after failing several safety inspections since 2022.
Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has told Volodymyr Zelensky never to "insult Poles again" after the Ukrainian president suggested his neighbor was putting on a show over their disputes on grain exports.
