At last year's NATO summit in Madrid, the alliance formally invited Sweden and Finland to join its ranks. At this year's summit in Vilnius, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was hoping the alliance would extend his country the same favor.
Hong Kong, one of the world's biggest buyers of Japanese fish, says it will ban seafood imports from 10 prefectures in the country if Tokyo presses ahead with its plan to release treated radioactive water from Fukushima into the sea.
A bear severely injured a 35-year-old herder who was working for a sheep grazing allotment on the San Juan National Forest in Colorado, officials said Wednesday.
After hinting at a possible retirement following a postseason loss in May, NBA superstar LeBron James has announced he will be returning for another year of play -- his 21st NBA season.
An emotional Damar Hamlin presented the Pat Tillman Award for Service at the 2023 ESPYS to the Buffalo Bills training staff who helped save his life during a game earlier this year.
As a series of welcoming cannon blasts rang out from a nearby colonial fort, the Russian navy's training class ship Perekop sailed into Havana on Tuesday.
Chinese officials on Wednesday unveiled new details about their plans for a manned lunar mission, as China attempts to become only the second nation to put citizens on the moon.
The power of Donald Trump pulsated through a Capitol Hill hearing Wednesday, as FBI Director Christopher Wray faced a Republican onslaught that showed how the ex-president turned Washington's traditional loyalties upside down.
The International Monetary Fund's board approved a $3 billion bailout program for Pakistan which will immediately disburse about $1.2 billion to help stabilize the South Asian ailing economy, the lender said on Wednesday.
An investigation into a Tennessee man accused of recording himself raping unconscious boys has shown there "could be a decade of victims," a police spokesperson told CNN.
The Justice Department is appealing the sentences that eight convicted defendants tied to the Oath Keepers received for seditious conspiracy or other conspiracy charges related to their roles in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.
North Korea said that the intercontinental ballistic missile it launched on Wednesday, which flew for more than 70 minutes, was a Hwasong-18, marking a potential new round of confrontation with Washington and its allies.
The NATO summit wrapped Wednesday with the allies offering assurances to President Volodymyr Zelensky that Kyiv's future lies in the alliance — and appearing to calm Ukrainian frustrations over a lack of a timeline for membership.
James Beeks, a member of the Oath Keepers and an actor who played Judas in the musical "Jesus Christ Superstar," was acquitted Tuesday by a judge of all federal charges he faced related to the January 6, 2021, attack at the US Capitol.
Federal prosecutors interviewed Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson for "several hours" in March as part of the ongoing criminal probe into efforts to overturn the 2020 election, Benson told CNN Wednesday.
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and the campaign of South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott both said Wednesday they've reached the number of individual donors that the Republican National Committee is requiring candidates to have in order to make the GOP debate stage in August.