The escalating feud between Democrats and Sen. Tommy Tuberville over the Alabama Republican's blockade of roughly 300 military nominees could soon lead to an even riskier situation: Holding up the confirmation of the nation's highest-ranking military officer.
The world's second biggest economy is in a rut. Chinese households are spending less money, factory production is slowing and businesses are investing at a slower pace than they were last year. Unemployment among the country's youth has jumped so much that Beijing decided to stop releasing the data. The real estate market is in a downfall with home prices dropping and a number of developers defaulting.
Team USA bounced back from its shock defeat to Lithuania with a statement trouncing of Italy, 100-63, to reach the FIBA Basketball World Cup semifinals.
Britain's second-biggest city effectively declared itself bankrupt on Tuesday, shutting down all nonessential spending after being issued with equal pay claims totaling up to £760 million ($954 million).
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Kyiv Wednesday on what is his third trip to the Ukrainian capital since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022.
Mark Jones was appointed as the new interim director at the British Museum on Wednesday as the institution seeks to restore its reputation following the theft of about 2,000 artifacts from its collection.
Lori Vallow Daybell, the Idaho woman serving a life sentence for murdering her two children, has appealed her convictions to the state Supreme Court, court documents show.
Tropical Storm Lee is expected to rapidly intensify into an "extremely dangerous" hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean by this weekend, the National Hurricane Center said Wednesday morning, as the season approaches its typical early September peak.
Former GOP Rep. Mike Rogers is running for Senate in Michigan, he announced Wednesday, giving Republicans a prominent recruit in an open seat Democrats are trying to defend next year.
The manhunt for escaped murderer Danelo Cavalcante has expanded after he was sighted outside the area authorities have been combing since he escaped Thursday, Pennsylvania authorities said.
With his hands cuffed, Ned Kelly Emeralds scribbles awkwardly on a piece of paper inside a Brisbane courthouse as he hurriedly tries to tell his story after years of immigration detention.
Dinner invites referring to India by its Sanskrit name have fueled a political row and public debate over what the country should be called, its history and colonial legacy as New Delhi prepares to welcome world leaders for the G20 summit.
For quite some time, American men have been threatening to break through tennis' elite and, at this year's US Open, it appears that time has finally come.
Nearly five decades after he was wrongfully convicted of rape, a New York judge has overturned the conviction of Leonard Mack following new DNA testing that eliminated him as the perpetrator and identified a different man who has since confessed to the crime, prosecutors announced.
