BEIRUT (AP) - Israeli troops have captured a strategic mountain topped with a Crusader-built castle in southern Lebanon in the deepest incursion of the country in more than a quarter-century, the military said Sunday. The capture of Beau...

Claude Lemieux's brain is being donated to the Boston University CTE Center to research the long-term effects of repetitive brain injuries, his family said Saturday in a statement released by daughter Claudia Lemieux Bishop. Lemieux died of suicide at ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. military has stopped another merchant vessel trying to break through the American blockade of Iranian ports, a U.S. official with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press on Saturday. The Gambia-flag...

BUNIA, Congo (AP) - The head of the World Health Organization on Saturday visited eastern Congo's Bunia, a city at the heart of an outbreak of a rare type of Ebola, where the virus is spreading faster than the response despite better-organized health f...

BANGKOK (AP) - Rescue workers in Laos said Saturday they have safely evacuated four villagers trapped in a flooded cave for 10 days, the day after another one was successfully extracted. Two men remain missing. Lao and Thai rescue groups ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - A federal judge has said that New Hampshire must make voter registration easier by allowing applicants to attest to their U.S. citizenship if they don't have the documents to prove it. The case was seen as the first m...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Three climbers on Alaska's Mount McKinley who fell near a treacherous pass on North America's tallest peak have died, a Latvian mountaineering group announced Friday. A fourth climber was rescued. The four were membe...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The former superintendent of Iowa's largest school district who was arrested last year in the Trump administration's immigration crackdown was sentenced Friday to two years in prison. Attorneys for Ian Roberts said...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Louisiana lawmakers passed a new congressional map Friday designed to help Republicans pick up a seat while eliminating one of the state's two majority-Black House districts, both of which are represented by Democrats. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Attorney General Pam Bondi refused to answer questions Friday on President Donald Trump's involvement in the release of the Jeffrey Epstein case files as she defended the Trump administration's actions before House lawmakers sc...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's administration from paying any claims through a new $1.776 billion settlement fund for the Republican president's allies who believe they were victims of a weaponi...

STAFFORD, Va. (AP) - A bus struck six vehicles on Interstate 95 in Virginia as traffic slowed for a work zone, killing five people and sending 34 to hospitals, state police said Friday. The crash happened at about 2:35 a.m. on southbound ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Kenyan police arrested eight female students on suspicion of arson, authorities said Friday, after a fire destroyed a dormitory at a boarding school, killing 16 children and injuring dozens of others. The motive remains under inve...

HONOLULU (AP) - A man wanted in connection with the killings of three men was apprehended Thursday after a massive search of Hawaii's Big Island that had left residents on edge. Police said Jacob Baker, 36, of Pahoa, Hawaii, was arrested ...

HONOLULU (AP) - A man wanted in the killings of three men was apprehended Thursday after a massive search of Hawaii's Big Island, police said. Police said they deployed "significant resources" to find Jacob Baker, 36, of Pahoa, Hawaii and...

DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, Alaska (AP) - Rescuers are trying to reach four climbers who fell on Alaska's Mount McKinley, North America's tallest peak, the National Park Service said Thursday. The climbers' conditions weren't immed...

DALLAS (AP) - An explosion and massive fire at a Dallas apartment building Thursday killed a child and at least two other people following a blast that shook nearby homes and happened while firefighters were rushing to a reported gas leak, officials sa...

SAO PAULO (AP) - The U.S. State Department announced on Thursday that it will designate Brazil's two biggest criminal groups as foreign terrorist organizations early next month, a move the South American nation's government has said it will interpret a...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for a Black death row inmate from Mississippi who claims there was racial bias in the makeup of the jury that convicted him. By a 5-4 vote, the justices sided with Terry Pitchford, wh...

PARIS (AP) - Overwhelming favorite Jannik Sinner is out of the French Open in the second round. The top-ranked Sinner struggled with the heat and lost to 56th-ranked Juan Manuel Cerundolo 3-6, 2-6, 7-5, 6-1, 6-1 after wasting a chance to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department has opened an investigation into whether E. Jean Carroll, the longtime advice columnist who has said Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in a Manhattan department store 30 years ago, lied during the course of ci...

A federal judge has declined to halt President Donald Trump's executive order creating a federal voter list and limiting mail voting, clearing the way for potential sweeping changes in how American elections are run shortly before this year's midterm e...

BEIRUT (AP) - Israel's air force carried out an airstrike on a southern suburb of the capital, Beirut, Thursday afternoon, the Israeli military said, further straining a fragile ceasefire a day ahead of crucial negotiations in Washington. ...

GENEVA (AP) - A man stabbed and wounded three people in what authorities described as an "act of terror" at the train station in the Swiss city of Winterthur on Thursday before being arrested. The attack took place shortly before 8:30 a.m...

GILGIL, Kenya (AP) - Flames ripped through a dormitory at a girls' boarding school in central Kenya on Thursday, killing at least 16 students and injuring scores of others in the latest deadly school fire in the East African country. Police questioned ...

The Trump administration on Wednesday placed additional sanctions on Iran as part of a sprawling economic pressure campaign during the war, this time targeting the country's newly created agency that is trying to control shipping through the Strait of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. forces carried out new defensive strikes on Wednesday on an Iran military facility after downing Iranian attack drones, according to U.S. officials. The officials, who were not authorized to comment publicly and spo...

MIAMI (AP) - In a story published May. 27, 2026, The Associated Press reported that the directive to pause scrutiny into Rodríguez was meant to avoid upsetting the administration's efforts to stabilize Venezuela after the capture of her predecessor, am...