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Wall Street surged in Wednesday premarket trading as oil prices plunged 16% after the U.S. and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire that includes the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is expected to meet with President Trump on Wednesday to try to smooth over the president's anger with the military alliance over the Iran war.

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has urged health regulators not to grant Camp Mystic a license to reopen until both the Texas Rangers' investigation and a separate state legislative probe are complete.

Democratic-backed candidate Chris Taylor won election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday, growing the liberal majority on the court as cases affecting congressional redistricting, union rights and other hot button issues await in the perennial ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the release of American journalist Shelly Kittleson, who was recently kidnapped by members of the foreign terrorist organization Kata'ib Hizballah near Baghdad, Iraq.

South Carolina women's basketball coach Dawn Staley says it is time to move past her Final Four skirmish with UConn coach Geno Auriemma that became the talk of the tournament.

Bible stories like Jonah and the Whale would be part of a new Texas public schools reading list that drew an overflow crowd to Tuesday's state education board meeting.

Unease from the war with Iran loomed over Georgia's special election as voters decided whether Republican Clay Fuller will succeed Marjorie Taylor Greene in Congress or if Democrat Shawn Harris will clinch an upset victory.

President Trump agreed Tuesday to a two-week suspension of his threat to launch a sweeping bombing campaign targeting Iran's bridges, power plants, and utilities if they didn't agree to his demands to open up the Strait of Hormuz.

Detained aid worker Joseph Figueira Martin, who had been held in the Central African Republic for nearly two years, was freed Tuesday, his family told The Associated Press.