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With President Trump saying he faces a choice of whether to "annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly," the Pentagon is deploying a third aircraft carrier strike group and up to 10,000 more troops to the Middle East.

When David Montgomery's mother first put him in Cub Scouts to keep him out of trouble, he was a bit embarrassed because he didn't think it was for people like him.

A lawyer for ABC on Tuesday asked a federal judge to prevent the Trump administration from conducting an unusual, early review of its broadcast licenses, likening it to a looming execution by guillotine that was already chilling the network's ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat and a candidate for reelection, appointed another election candidate, New York Attorney General Letitia James, to lead an investigation into Cornell University.

A laboratory worker's death at a Siberian anti-plague institute prompted Russian authorities to place nearly 200 people under medical observation and drew attention from Washington, but officials have not confirmed that plague was the cause. Here's ...

In the last few weeks, a former Cornell University student has sued the school, a fraternity chapter and seven of its former members, alleging she was drugged and gang-raped at a fraternity house in Ithaca, New York, in October 2024. Here's what to ...

FIFA President Gianni Infantino already is in globe-trotting campaign mode more than five months ahead of the vote when 211 member federations decide who will lead the world soccer body until 2031.

The U.S. military in Okinawa, Japan, is pausing all operations for two days, restricting the ability of troops to leave their base and ordering training after a Marine was arrested on suspicion of killing a local woman.

China has opened a foreign air force support center and is training pilots in Communist Laos -- the latest thrust south by Beijing's military, which is already training the armed forces of other Southeast Asian nations.

R&B singer Freddie Jackson, whose smooth ballads, including "You Are My Lady" and "Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times Sake)," made him one of R&B's biggest voices of the 1980s, has died. He was 70.