U.S. & World

The rhino population across the world has increased slightly but so have the killings, mostly in South Africa, as poaching fed by huge demand for rhino horns remains a top threat.

Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks, who is also running in the Senate race, allegedly took advantage of tax breaks she didn’t qualify for on properties in Maryland and D.C., according to a CNN review. The CNN review reportedly showed that a homestead tax exemption that Alsobrooks claimed for more than a decade is meant t...

Officials in Italy say a two-story building has collapsed in the southern province of Naples, killing two young siblings and their grandmother, while burying the children’s mother under the rubble. Firefighters said on their official Telegram channel that a gas explosion likely caused the collapse on Sunday. Rescuers in the town of Saviano recovere...

It’s not a great moment in world affairs right now. The world is fragmented. Conflicts and crises are raging. It’s against this backdrop that world leaders are attending this week’s annual U.N. gathering.

Federal agents seized materials from the home of new NYPD interim commissioner Tom Donlon on Friday, less than two weeks after New York City’s previous police commissioner resigned.

Republican activists in swing states say they’ve seen little sign of the teams tasked with knocking on doors and turning out infrequent voters on behalf of Donald Trump. That’s raising concerns about the GOP nominee relying on outside groups for a key part of his campaign operations.

An explosion in a coal mine in eastern Iran has killed at least 34 workers and injured 17 others. The disaster that began Saturday night is one of the worst mining disasters in the country’s history.

A manhunt has been launched for “multiple shooters” who killed four and injured 18 more when they “fired upon a large group of people,” in Birmingham, Alabama police said early Sunday.

Israel and Hezbollah have traded fire since the outbreak of the war in Gaza nearly a year ago, when the militant group began firing rockets in solidarity with the Palestinians and its fellow Iran-backed ally Hamas

The mother of a Georgia teenager charged with fatally shooting four people at his high school has been indicted in connection with an alleged domestic incident last year.

Israeli troops have raided the offices of the satellite news network Al Jazeera in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, ordering the bureau to shut down.

A JetBlue flight transporting passengers to San Diego diverted from its planned route and made an emergency landing at a regional airport in central Kansas Saturday evening.

On his way to the tunnel, Dykes pumped his arms into the air toward TCU fans at that end of the field.

At least four times, tips were made to the FBI, State Department and other U.S. government agencies that raised suspicions about the man accused in the apparent assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Florida.