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A woman tried to bribe an official at an ICE detention center to release a migrant, offering gifts of money and tequila to try to spring the person free, federal prosecutors say.

A movie theater in Lake Oswego, Oregon, is facing backlash after its marquee stated, "Before there were the Jews, there was The Odyssey," a claim critics said was historically false and, given the current climate, needlessly provocative.

Gov. Tim Walz has signed Minnesota's bipartisan "Grandparents' Happy Hour" law, effective Aug. 1, allowing nursing homes to serve alcohol to residents and their guests at organized social events.

The oil crunch is surprisingly tame amid the Middle East conflict, but governments and the energy industry should gird for further shocks that could send prices soaring, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday.

A soldier killed in Iraq during a controlled detonation of a downed Iranian drone has been identified as Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, the Pentagon said Tuesday.

Congress will hold a special ceremony in the U.S. Capitol rotunda next Tuesday to honor the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, kicking off a series of funeral services, including one in Washington featuring remarks from President Trump.

An Iranian official began meetings Tuesday with mediators in Pakistan as diplomats sought to salvage the collapsed interim deal between Iran and the United States, even as both countries continued to launch attacks for a 10th day of renewed fighting.

Kuwait said Tuesday that Iran had again attacked power and desalination plants critical to the tiny desert nation.

Tropical Storm Bertha strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico and was moving slowly toward the Florida Panhandle and Alabama, causing a tropical storm warning and storm surge watches, forecasters said.

A suspected gas explosion triggered a collapse inside an under-construction tunnel at a hydropower project in India's northeastern Himalayan state of Sikkim, near the Chinese border, leaving at least 10 people dead and 17 others missing, officials ...