Blood supplies across the country remain at critically low levels after the American Red Cross announced an emergency shortage earlier this month. The recent spell of cold weather led not only to local school closures but also to the cancellation of some blood drives.
The International Court of Justice on Friday ordered Israel to do more to prevent the killing of civilians in Gaza but did not call for a cease-fire, disappointing Palestinians who had hoped the court would endorse their pleas for immediate relief from the violence.
Several museums across the country are covering displays of artifacts from federally recognized Native American and Native Hawaiian groups in response to newly bolstered regulations that require museums to obtain consent for such exhibits from the communities.
The Israeli military has ordered the evacuation of tens of thousands of Palestinians who had already been displaced and were sheltering in a United Nations vocational training center in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis.
When Julien Navas left Paris for a vacation in United States, he knew that he needed to buy a diamond for his future wife’s wedding ring. He found the perfect sparkler earlier this month in the mud at Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas. The 7.46-carat chocolate-colored gem cost him only $15.
The Department of Justice concluded that former Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York and his executive staff subjected female employees to a "sexually hostile work environment," and then retaliated against several who complained, according to a settlement announced Friday.
The White House called Alabama’s use of nitrogen hypoxia to execute a prisoner Thursday night “troubling,” noting that President Biden has long had “deep concerns” with how the death penalty is implemented.
Russia has not provided evidence that Ukrainian prisoners of war were aboard a military plane that was downed Wednesday, Ukrainian officials told relatives of captured soldiers Friday, as the warring countries continued to trade blame over the murky incident.
Israel has bulldozed large areas of the Gaza Strip -- including beachfronts, farmland, forests and homes -- to make fortified positions for military vehicles as they advance across the enclave.
The American Museum of Natural History will close two major halls exhibiting Native American objects, its leaders said Friday, in a dramatic response to new federal regulations that require museums to obtain consent from tribes before displaying or performing research on cultural items.
It’s hard to imagine the president’s in-house health clinic as a rogue operation, but that’s the picture a Pentagon probe paints about the facility during the Trump administration. The findings are clear and damaging.
Nikki Haley on Friday called Donald Trump "totally unhinged" after a failed attempt by one of his allies to push the Republican National Committee to declare him the party's presumptive nominee, escalating her attacks on his mental acuity.
Alabama executed a man Thursday night by nitrogen hypoxia, an untested method described by a witness as a “torturous execution” that shocked even correction officials in the room “who were visibly upset at how bad this thing went.”
The United Nations fired several staffers at its Palestinian refugee agency over Israeli allegations that they took part in the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, news that prompted the U.S. to suspend funding.
With less than a week left as chief of the National Rifle Association, Wayne LaPierre got to look back at his 33-year tenure in a Manhattan courtroom Friday, when he began testifying in a civil corruption case that the New York attorney general brought against him.
David L. Mills, a computer scientist who invented the system that allows connected computers to sync their clocks, a bedrock technology relied on by the entire modern internet, died Jan. 17 at his home in Newark, Del. He was 85.
A group of Colorado voters on Friday asked the Supreme Court to bar Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot, telling the justices in their brief that he is ineligible to return to the White House after spearheading the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Casting new doubts into Venezuela’s chances of holding free and fair elections this year, President Nicolás Maduro said the recent discovery that opposition leaders had been plotting to kill him has done serious damage to the roadmap to a vote that both sides agreed to in Barbados in October.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday a brewing Senate deal tying immigration to emergency aid for Ukraine would be impossible to pass in his Republican-controlled chamber.
