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Fox Corp. has purchased streaming platform Roku for $22 billion, the media giant announced Friday.

U.S. military commanders on Okinawa extended a midnight-to-5 a.m. curfew for junior enlisted troops and a ban on alcohol during the same period for all personnel outside their homes, officials said this week.

Pope Leo XIV is kicking off a three-nation tour of Latin America on Friday with a visit to Uruguay, the region's least Catholic and most secular country, three weeks after undergoing lung cancer surgery that had put the entire trip into question.

A new two-part docuseries on first lady Melania Trump from Amazon Prime Video will air later this month.

A top federal prosecutor in South Florida who led the Justice Department's investigation into Obama- and Biden-era intelligence and law enforcement officials has resigned, Attorney General Todd Blanche said.

Diwali is the most important festival of the year in India, particularly for Hindus, and widely marked by prayers, family gatherings and the lighting of fireworks.

Following President Trump's win in 2024, actress Rosie O'Donnell moved to Ireland in protest.

Maryland Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen will forgo a Senate leadership bid to focus on a potential 2028 presidential candidacy.

John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV, a great-grandson of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, died Friday at 89.

Two of the first three tankers carrying Russian diesel to the U.S. have changed course, casting doubt on President Trump's fuel deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin as legal warnings and political opposition grow.