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For the first time, the Chinese navy appears to have simulated strikes by aircraft carrier-based warplanes on Taiwan, as drills around the island wrapped up on their third day.

A severe sandstorm has cloaked Beijing and China's northeastern regions for the fourth time in a month forcing some residents to stay indoors to protect themselves from dense air pollution.

As the 70th anniversary of Playboy draws near, the brand is attempting radical change.

Australian broadcaster Sky News has left TikTok because of security concerns that have led several Western governments to ban the video app on devices used by officials.

The Good Friday Peace agreement came in to existence as tensions gave way to applause, signaling an end to years of tortuous negotiations and the beginning of Northern Ireland's peace.

Lawyer Xu Zhiyong has spent nearly two decades fighting for human rights in China, and on Monday he was handed one of the longest prison sentences ever issued for civil activism under Xi Jinping's crackdown on dissent.

High pollution levels in Thailand's northern city of Chiang Mai and surrounding provinces are keeping tourists away and alarming locals, with the government on Monday, April 10, urging residents to avoid outdoor activities.

Even amid all his legal challenges, Donald Trump has a secret weapon in his drive to win the Republican presidential nomination next year: polling strongly suggests he has transformed the GOP primary electorate in a way that will make him harder to beat.

But for a flight surgeon who gave him a pass when he came up an eighth of an inch short during an exam, Michael J. Novosel Sr. likely would never have become a military aviator.

Rep. Justin Jones, who was expelled from the Tennessee House of Representatives last week over breaking decorum rules in a protest about gun violence, was reinstated Monday.

Former President Donald Trump has appealed a judge's order that Mike Pence must testify to a federal grand jury investigating the aftermath of the 2020 election, according to a person familiar with the case, but is unlikely to stop his former vice president from speaking to the panel.

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles is launching an investigation upon the Republican governor's request for an expedited probe and pardon recommendation for a US Army sergeant convicted Friday of killing a protester at a Black Lives Matter rally in 2020.

A 25-year-old bank employee opened fire at his workplace in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, on Monday morning and livestreamed the attack that left four dead and nine others injured, authorities said.

Two police officers and another person were killed in an exchange of gunfire during a traffic stop in northwestern Wisconsin on Saturday, authorities said.

A shelter-in-place order has been lifted for neighborhoods near a burning fishing vessel in the Hylebos Waterway in Tacoma, Washington, officials said.

Tina Peters -- the former clerk of Mesa County, Colorado, and the state's most prominent 2020 election denier -- was sentenced by a judge Monday to home detention and community service after she was found guilty last month of obstructing a government operation.

It's been one month since Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, triggering alarms throughout the halls of global finance.

At least five people were killed in a mass shooting Monday at a bank in Louisville, Kentucky, police said.

Highly classified Pentagon documents leaked online suggest key weaknesses in Ukrainian weaponry, air defense, and readiness, and reveal US penetration of Russia's Defense Ministry and the mercenary organization Wagner Group.

Four days after being expelled by Tennessee's Republican-controlled House of Representatives, Democrat Justin Jones marched back to the Capitol on Monday following a unanimous vote by the Nashville Metropolitan Council to reappoint him as an interim representative.