After months of political wrangling, Ukraine's parliament passed a new law Thursday that aims to replenish the nation's exhausted and depleted fighting forces, which are struggling to hold back relentless Russian assaults that are expected to intensify into the summer.
A Vietnamese court sentenced a business executive to death Thursday in a multibillion-dollar fraud case as the country’s ruling Communist Party seeks to crack down on corruption.
A senior U.S. military commander traveled to Israel on Thursday, officials said, as fears ran high that Iran would soon launch a strike to avenge the killings of several senior commanders.
The corruption trial of Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., will go forward as scheduled May 6, but his wife, Nadine Menendez, who was also charged, will be tried separately later, a Manhattan federal judge ruled Thursday.
President Biden plans to expand the boundaries of two national monuments in California in the coming weeks, aiming to bolster his conservation record and increase access to nature for disadvantaged communities, according to two people briefed on the matter.
Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones will be investigated for his role as a fake elector for Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, a state official said Thursday.
It’s perhaps the only hot-button issue on which Donald Trump plays defense. It has forced even MAGA acolyte Kari Lake to ask Democrats for help. And just last month, it lost the Republicans a state seat in otherwise ruby-red Alabama. Such is the power of the politics around abortion.
Thirteen members of a Hasidic Jewish community were arraigned Wednesday on charges stemming from a January incident in which a wall inside a famous Brooklyn synagogue was damaged by young men wielding a hammer and crowbar -- setting off a melee that was captured on video.
A decision by Arizona's highest court upholding an 1864 ban on nearly all abortions created chaos and confusion across the state Wednesday. As abortion providers were flooded with phone calls from frantic patients, Republican lawmakers at the state Capitol blocked efforts to undo the ban.
When it came to wildfires, 2021 was an increasingly common kind of year in Montana: Flames consumed 747,000 acres, an area nearly the size of Long Island.
House Republicans on Wednesday blocked legislation to extend an expiring warrantless surveillance law that national security officials call crucial to gathering intelligence and fighting terrorism, dealing Speaker Mike Johnson a stinging defeat after former President Donald Trump urged lawmakers to kill the bill.
Federal safety investigators are homing in on the electronic system of the enormous cargo ship that struck Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge last month, immediately collapsing the span and plunging six construction workers to their deaths.
At least three people were shot and injured Wednesday at an outdoor event where about 1,000 people were celebrating Eid al-Fitr in West Philadelphia, police said.
Three sons and three grandchildren of the political leader of the Palestinian militant organization Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, were killed in an Israeli attack in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, Hamas sources in Beirut confirmed.
TEL AVIV - As Israel and Hamas try to hammer out the thorny details of a U.S.-backed cease-fire proposal, Israeli officials are seeking the release of the remaining hostages held in Gaza. But they don’t actually know how many of them are alive.
In the wake of a "troubling trend" in aviation accidents — including the March 25 crash of an Apache AH-64E helicopter on Joint Base Lewis-McChord property in Thurston County that injured two pilots — the Army implemented an aviation safety stand-up Wednesday to increase training for both pilots and maintenance personnel.
An intense storm system is charging across the eastern United States and bringing with it the risks of severe thunderstorms, tornadoes and flooding. Storms will affect parts of the Deep South and lower Mississippi Valley on Wednesday before reaching the Eastern Seaboard on Thursday.
The top U.S. general overseeing military operations in Europe warned lawmakers Wednesday that the war in Ukraine has reached a decisive moment, with Russia expected to hold a 10-1 advantage on artillery shells “within weeks” unless the United States approves additional military support for the government in Kyiv.
President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan announced a range of moves Wednesday to further enhance military, economic and other cooperation between the two longtime allies as part of the president's efforts to counter China's aggressive actions in the Indo-Pacific region.
An Israeli airstrike on Gaza killed three sons of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, the militant group said, among its most high-profile casualties since the start of the war six months ago.
