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The Energy Department is urgently working to strengthen U.S. nuclear weapons capabilities as dual threats from China and Russia mount, according to the administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration.

A United Nations agency paused the evacuation of ships through the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday after the British military said a vessel was hit by a projectile off the coast of Oman following the passage of several tankers that used a route backed ...

Taipei welcomed Western statements of support Thursday after Beijing reiterated its intent "to exercise China's jurisdiction" in waters east of the democratic island in what alarmed overseas capitals called "novel" offshore actions.

Peace negotiations between the U.S. and Iran faced further challenges on Thursday as Tehran issued threats to commercial vessels traveling outside preapproved routes in the Strait of Hormuz and rejected calls to use unfrozen funds to purchase ...

Just shy of its one-year opening, Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz" is closing its doors, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday.

Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man inside his home in the occupied West Bank, a relative said Thursday. The Israeli military confirmed the shooting and said the man had thrown objects at the soldiers.

Russia is burying the carcasses of livestock infected with anthrax within occupied Ukraine in an apparent attempt, according to Kyiv, to spread the disease to nearby residential areas.

The Supreme Court gave the go-ahead Thursday for the Department of Homeland Security to wind down a deportation amnesty for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants, ruling that President Trump's decision to end Temporary Protected Status wasn't ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday he did not discuss the purported $300 billion Iran reconstruction fund with Persian Gulf leaders during his visit this week, even as other U.S. officials say the Gulf Cooperation Council members will ...

A senior Iranian official on Thursday rebutted U.S. claims that Tehran would use its unfrozen assets to buy American farm products, saying the U.S. only exports "broken promises."