For centuries, houses of worship have served as havens for people needing refuge — and, in recent decades, sanctuary from the ...

Fighting with M23 rebels in eastern Congo has left at least 13 peacekeepers and foreign soldiers dead. M23 has made ...

Madison Keys was a tennis prodigy, beating Serena Williams when she was just 14 years old, but had not won a grand slam title ...

The dismissals began Friday night, according to two people cited by The Associated Press. An email sent by one of the fired ...

With a ceasefire agreement pausing the war between Israel and Hamas, Israeli troops have withdrawn from Gaza city centers.

The summer home of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad was once off-limits to ordinary Syrians. Now people are lining up to visit ...

Only four teams remain in the hunt for the Super Bowl — the Buffalo Bills, Kansas City Chiefs, Philadelphia Eagles and ...

A lot of old records at the National Archives are written in longhand, but fewer people can read cursive. The institution is looking for volunteers to help decipher and digitize them.

Work was underway to remove hundreds of trees blocking roads and railway lines in the wake of the system, named Storm Éowyn ...

Many residents in Altadena, Calif., evacuated not knowing it would be the last time they would see their homes standing.

President Trump made good on a campaign promise to ask the Department of the Interior to recognize the Lumbee people of North ...

Four female soldiers taken hostage on Oct. 7, 2023 by Hamas were handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza on Saturday morning, and then transferred to the Israeli military.