When the Philippines faced off against Switzerland in the New Zealand city of Dunedin on Friday, they became the first team of any gender from the Southeast Asian nation to play at a World Cup.
An investigation conducted by the National Transportation Safety Board into the explosion at an eastern Pennsylvania candy factory that left seven people dead in March revealed that natural gas was leaking from two service lines, according to a preliminary report released Tuesday.
A homicide case that went cold for more than 40 years has been solved with the help of forensic genetic genealogy technology, New Hampshire Attorney General John M. Formella said Thursday.
Two women have been fined for taking selfies with dingoes on a popular Australian tourist island as wildlife rangers ramp up warnings after a spate of ferocious attacks with the native wild dogs.
Two pregnant migrant women who were looking to turn themselves in to US immigration authorities last week say Texas National Guard members denied them water when they asked for it.
Kevin Mitnick, one of the most famous hackers in the history of cybersecurity, died over the weekend at age 59 after a more than year-long battle with pancreatic cancer, his family said in a published obituary.
Air raid sirens sounded early Friday in Odesa for the fourth night in a row. Unlike the other nights, there was no Russian attack, according to officials.
"Oppenheimer" seeks to match the mythological nature of its central theme -- an "American Prometheus," punished for bringing humankind the seeds of its potential destruction -- with a movie of equal heft, scale and (most of all) length. Writer-director Christopher Nolan's epic film essentially consists of three chapters, with the middle, Atlas-like, holding up the weaker, drawn-out beginning and end.
After a stroke nearly killed her, Stacey Buckner's recovery led her to fill the basic needs of homeless veterans through her Off-Road Outreach program. Using her Jeep, she provides mobile showers, laundry services, and meals in her hometown of Fayetteville, North Carolina.
A Florida judge tentatively agreed Thursday that live ammunition could be used in a reenactment of 2018's mass shooting inside Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as part of a civil lawsuit.
Tucked into a narrow tree line on Ukraine's southern front, a young Ukrainian soldier wearing an American flag patch talks about how frightening it was the first time his team assaulted the densely mined Russian positions in the offensive launched a month ago.
India on Thursday ordered a halt to its largest rice export category in a move that will roughly halve shipments by the world's largest exporter of the grain, triggering fears of further inflation on global food markets.
As anticipation builds for former President Donald Trump to be indicted for the third time this year, investigators in the special counsel's election interference probe are expected to speak with additional witnesses over the next several weeks, including at least one former Trump attorney.
The US is deploying thousands of Marines and additional forces to the Middle East following recent Iranian attempts to seize commercial shipping vessels, the Pentagon announced Thursday.
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Thursday that it settled with the blank-check company seeking to merge with former President Donald Trump's media company.
GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa on Thursday released an internal FBI document containing unverified allegations President Joe Biden was involved in an illegal foreign bribery scheme.
On the second day of hearings addressing the emergency medical exception for abortion restrictions in Texas, an obstetrics and gynecology specialist gave emotional testimony about getting an abortion out of state last year after learning her fetus had a life-threatening condition.
