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President-elect Donald Trump on Friday named Brian Burch, president of the political advocacy group CatholicVote, to serve as the next U.S. ambassador to the Holy See in Rome.

It's perhaps Rio de Janeiro's hardest trail, featuring one particularly daunting section requiring a perilous scramble that can cause hikers to freeze up with fright.

The White House on Friday sidestepped a barrage of questions from the media about why President Biden has been missing in action while a potential government shutdown looms.

Crowds in Mayotte vented their frustration at French President Emmanuel Macron, with some booing, as he toured destruction wrought by the strongest cyclone to hit the French territory in nearly a century.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's chances of staying on in power have become more tenuous after the opposition party that backed his government for years announced it will vote no confidence in the government when Parliament resumes.

The 2024 election saw $1.7 billion spent on TV ads in House races, the most money ever dumped into congressional marketing.

A group of Americans represented by the Council on American-Islamic Relations asked the Supreme Court on Friday to review the legality of the government's watchlist.

A fire at the campus of closed-down Virginia Intermont College in Bristol, Virginia, damaged buildings dating back to its founding in the 19th century.

A storm was looming when the inmate serving 20 years for armed robbery was assigned to transport fellow prisoners to their jobs at private manufacturers supplying goods to companies like Home Depot and Wayfair. It didn't matter that Jake Jones once ...

House Republicans on Friday began coalescing around a new plan to fund the government before the midnight deadline, preparing to vote on a temporary funding extension separate from other year-end priorities loaded into prior versions of the bill.