The U.S. State Department approved a possible $346 million weapons sale to Nigeria to help improve security in the ...

Since New York began licensing recreational marijuana stores about three years ago, the state has been using a simple tactic ...

A Rhode Island man accused of faking his death and fleeing the United States to evade rape charges was found guilty Wednesday ...

A network of clinics that provides health care in Maine is expected to ask a judge Thursday to restore its Medicaid funding ...

Eighty years after the end of World War II, Japan and China are marking the anniversary with major events, but on different ...

The leader of the small Baha’i community in Qatar was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison for social media posts that allegedly “cast doubt on the foundations of the Islamic religion,” ...

Asian shares were mixed on Thursday after days of gains driven by hopes for lower U.S. interest rates, while U.S. futures ...

No matter the offense, states must educate students in juvenile detention. It’s a complicated challenge, no doubt — and ...

To earn his freedom, 15-year-old Cayden Gillespie had to complete three school assignments a day. But school had gone virtual ...

A team of mountaineers set off on foot Thursday to recover the body of a Chinese climber from the world’s second-highest peak after bad weather grounded helicopter ...

When President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law 90 years ago this week, he vowed it would provide economic stability to older people while giving the ...

Israel’s far-right finance minister announced a contentious new settlement construction in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Thursday which Palestinians and rights ...