Head of Nobel Institute says Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado will not attend awards ceremony in Oslo

A private funeral has been held for a West Virginia National Guard member who was shot to death last month in the nation’s capital

Cryptocurrency mogul Do Kwon is scheduled to be sentenced for misleading investors who lost billions when his company’s crypto ecosystem collapsed in 2022

The winning numbers in Tuesday evening’s drawing of the "Mega Millions" game were: 19-32-41-49-66, Mega Ball: 6, Megaplier:

A Christmas tree-lighting ceremony in a Detroit-area community will go on as planned

A parent of a Kentucky State University student has been charged with murder following a campus shooting

The city of Cincinnati has approved an $8.1 million settlement with a group of non-violent protesters arrested during the racial justice demonstrations of 2020

A federal appeals court has ruled that a New Jersey law that permits terminally ill people to seek life-ending drugs applies only to residents of the state and not those from beyond its borders

The man charged with shooting Jets player Kris Boyd at a Manhattan restaurant appeared in a New York City court late Tuesday

Waymo's self-driving taxis have been in the spotlight for both negative and positive reasons

The House is headed toward a final vote on a sweeping defense bill that authorizes $900 billion in military programs

President Donald Trump has announced the long-awaited launch of a "gold card" program offering legal status and a pathway to U.S. citizenship

President Donald Trump admits he used the slur “shithole countries” during a private 2018 meeting with lawmakers to disparage Haiti and African nations

A judge has ruled secret grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 sex trafficking case can be made public

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to stop deploying California National Guard troops in Los Angeles

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered diplomatic correspondence to stop using the Calibri font and return to the more traditional Times New Roman

A former vice president at a Baptist university in Georgia has been indicted for allegedly lying about sexually assaulting a woman

President Donald Trump says the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela as tensions mount with the government of President Nicolás Maduro

The winning numbers in Wednesday evening’s drawing of the "Powerball" game were: 10-16-29-33-69, Powerball: 22

A man illegally sentenced to 15 years in prison on a drug conviction is set to walk free after Mississippi's governor granted him clemency

During the first Trump administration, families were forcibly separated at the border. Now parents inside the United States are being arrested by immigration authorities and separated from their families during prolonged detention inside the country. Three recent migrants told The...

The U.S. stock market remains largely quiet as Wall Street waits to hear from the Federal Reserve in the afternoon

The fiancee of a man who died on a cruise ship has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Royal Caribbean

A new report reveals that the U.S. government's statistical system is struggling due to staff layoffs, reduced funding, and political interference

Federal health officials have expanded an outbreak of infant botulism tied to ByHeart baby formula to include any illnesses reported since the company began production in 2022

Ethiopia’s prime minister loves big projects

Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 years ago

Thieves who stole over $100 million in crown jewels from the Louvre in October escaped with just 30 seconds to spare, according to a French Senate inquiry

A strike called by Portugal’s two main trade union confederations is expected to cause severe flight and rail disruptions, shutter many government services, and force the cancellation of medical appointments and classes Thursday

Thousands of people have fled their homes due to renewed fighting between Thailand and Cambodia

Opponents of military rule in Myanmar have staged a joint protest calling on people to stay indoors to show they are boycotting elections scheduled for late this month

Writer Sophie Kinsella, known for her rom-com "Confessions of a Shopaholic," has died at 55

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was absent from the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Norway on Wednesday

Gunmen have killed three members of the Revolutionary Guard in Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan

Rain has finally fallen in Iran's capital after months of drought

Scottish artist Nnena Kalu has won the Turner Prize for her vivid abstract drawings and sculptures

Brazil's lower house of Congress has approved a bill that could reduce former President Jair Bolsonaro's prison time

Tens of thousands of people have joined the latest massive protests across Bulgaria, accusing the government of widespread corruption

The United States ambassador to Turkey says the close relationship between U.S. President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has brought their countries closer to resolving issues that led to Turkey being kicked off the F-35 fighte...

North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has opened a meeting to prepare for the upcoming ruling party congress, one of the country’s biggest political conferences meant to lay out new state priorities

Denmark has reached a deal to compensate thousands of Indigenous women and girls in Greenland over cases of forcible contraception carried out by health authorities over decades starting in the 1960s

A woman from Syria's Alawite minority has spoken about her harrowing experience of being kidnapped and raped by gunmen

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy describes his time behind bars in a book released Wednesday

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has appeared in public for the first time in 11 months

Several parents have welcomed the return of their children who had been abducted last month in Papiri, Nigeria, when gunmen stormed their school

Renewed border fighting between Thailand and Cambodia is showing no signs of stopping

Southeast Asia is embracing the embattled offshore wind industry as it reels from U.S. President Donald Trump’s rejection of renewable energy

Brazilian police say that one of the two suspects behind a brazen daylight robbery over the weekend in Sao Paulo remained at large following a heist that included eight works by French artist Henri Matisse

U.S. President Donald Trump says he and European leaders have discussed proposals to end the war in Ukraine, adding that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “has to be realistic” about his country’s position on a peace plan

European leaders are set to call for stricter migration policies, a move critics say caters to far-right pressures and harms human rights

The House speaker has been conferring with Hoosier State Republicans, but taking a lighter touch than the White House.

Rising costs are crushing Americans — and they're running out of room to adjust.

President Donald Trump told POLITICO his economy gets an "A-plus-plus-plus-plus-plus" grade. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro says that "does not reflect the reality on the ground."

The potential 2028 presidential contender doesn't want kids under 16 on popular social platforms, citing health and safety concerns.

State Senate GOP leader Rodric Bray mollified his stance on the likelihood of his caucus approving the new maps.

Democrats believe they can finally unseat a Republican in the Lone Star State.

The former Dallas Congress member will run for Democratic Rep. Julie Johnson’s seat instead.

The Hoosier State GOP lawmakers are poised to block the president’s mid-cycle redistricting scheme Monday.

Allies of both parties are pouring money into the fight over a referendum to bring the state’s new congressional maps in front of voters.

Americans continue to say affordability is out of control, and they place the responsibility on Trump, The POLITICO Poll found.

“It just sort of looks like we ran a standard to progressive Democratic campaign and we got the result you would expect,” former Rep. Conor Lamb said.

Republicans are worried the slim margin of victory in Tuesday’s special election may spell doom in 2026.

He’s not expected to clear the Democratic primary field.

His party is on a cross-country redistricting win streak. But Maryland’s Senate president isn’t ready to go along.

Austin McCubbin, a longtime GOP operative, announced his resignation in a pointed post on X on Monday.

The proposed map still faces a number of obstacles in order to pass.

Democrats face over a dozen contested primaries across the country exposing deep divisions in their ranks

A significant portion of 2024 Trump voters — more than a third — do not consider themselves to be MAGA Republicans, according to The POLITICO Poll.

The meeting is an escalation of the speaker's involvement.

The administration’s attacks have elevated the six moderate lawmakers who cut an anti-Trump video urging troops to disobey illegal orders.

The concerns surrounding Trump’s immigration clampdown in the Tar Heel state speak to a tension at the center of the president’s immigration agenda.

A whirlwind Friday is the freshest reminder that the MAGA movement has always been defined more by id than ideology.

Denmark is planning to follow Australia in introducing stricter restrictions for younger teens to access social media

The heirs of an 83-year-old Connecticut woman are suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI and its business partner Microsoft for wrongful death

South Korea will require advertisers to label their ads made with artificial intelligence technologies from next year as it seeks to curb a surge of deceptive promotions featuring fabricated experts or deep-faked celebrities endorsing food or pharmaceu...

NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that's been orbiting Mars for more than a decade

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has welcomed a groundbreaking social media ban for children under 16 as families taking back power from tech giants

IBM has announced it's acquiring data streaming platform Confluent in an $11 billion deal

OpenAI has appointed Slack CEO Denise Dresser as its first chief of revenue

A private company is offering South Carolina's state-owned utility $2.7 billion to complete two abandoned nuclear plants

The maker of an iPhone app that flagged sightings of U.S. immigration agents has sued the Trump administration for free speech violations

Australia has introduced a world-first social media ban for children under 16, starting Wednesday

Japan is assessing damage and cautioning people of potential aftershocks after a late-night 7.5 magnitude earthquake caused injuries, light damage and a tsunami in Pacific coastal communities

The European Union is investigating Google for potential antitrust violations related to its AI models

Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from supernaturally strong monsters — capable of sinking their claws even into solid rock

Britain has announced sanctions against several Russian media and ideas organizations

It's time for the Geminid meteor shower, one of the strongest of the year

Japan has issued a megaquake advisory after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Aomori, the northernmost prefecture on the main island

President Donald Trump says he will allow Nvidia to sell its H200 computer chip used in the development of artificial intelligence to “approved customers” in China

Cloudflare reports that it has resolved an outage that disrupted several global websites, including LinkedIn and Zoom

Venmo says that an issue impacting the payment service has been fixed and it is “back up and running,” after users reported trouble sending and receiving money

European Union regulators have fined Elon Musk’s social media platform X 120 million euros for failing to comply with digital regulations

The European Union has launched an antitrust investigation into WhatsApp's artificial intelligence policy

Police in Edmonton, Canada, have started a pilot project using AI-equipped body cameras to detect faces on a "high risk" watch list

A six-episode, behind-the-scenes Disney+ docuseries about Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour and Rian Johnson’s third “Knives Out” movie, “Wake Up Dead Man,” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is making the rounds in Washington

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has issued a "code red" alert to employees to improve ChatGPT, according to The Wall Street Journal

Few authors made readers laugh harder than did author Sophie Kinsella

Author James Patterson has surprised hundreds of booksellers with $500 checks for the holidays

Charli XCX is heading to the Sundance Film Festival in January 2026

The American playwright and actor Jeremy O

For his first original feature in some 15 years, James L

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy describes his time behind bars in a book released Wednesday

The painting that introduced the movie “Star Wars” to the world nearly 50 years ago sold at auction for $3.875 million

Composer Jake Heggie is set to premiere his opera “The Judgment of Paris,” inspired by the famous 1976 wine tasting where California wines triumphed over French selections

Casting directors have long been the unsung heroes behind films like “Wicked.”

CBS says Tony Dokoupil will take over at the beginning of next year as anchor of its flagship “CBS Evening News” broadcast

Anyone would grant that a Japanese anime that transplants “Hamlet” to a surreal netherworld is a touch more ambitious than your average animated movie

The Golden Globes have introduced a best podcast category that's likely to spark conversations

Eric Dane, known for his roles in “Grey's Anatomy” and “Euphoria,” has announced a memoir titled “Book of Days.”

Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” topped the Golden Globe nominations on Monday

Paramount has launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros

The Golden Globes nominees have been announced, featuring a diverse group of top names from film and television

Raul Malo, the soulful tenor and frontman of The Mavericks, has died at age 60

There may be no higher art in Somalia than oral poetry, which is recited in the most remote outposts and even by militants

The Red Sea International Film Festival has opened its fifth edition in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

RoboCop has found a permanent home in Detroit — all 11 feet and 3,500 pounds of him

From the election of Zohran Mamdani to the intrigue surrounding the jewel heist at the Louvre, keeping up with this year’s news also left some Americans struggling with pronunciations

Tokyo-born actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa has died at 75

Police have recovered a stolen James Bond-inspired Fabergé pendant after six days of waiting for it to exit a suspect's gastrointestinal tract

President Donald Trump is hosting the 2025 Kennedy Center honorees in the Oval Office for a medal presentation ceremony

AMC Entertainment said Thursday that CEO Adam Aron suffered a minor stroke last month but recovered rapidly and will continue to lead the world’s biggest movie theater chain