US & World

About 25,000 educators are on strike in Chicago, forcing the country’s third biggest school district to cancel classes and leaving about…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has taken a scenic — and politically significant — ride on a white horse on a snowy mountain that’s…

A bus crash in the Saudi city of Medina killed 35 foreigners and wounded four others on Wednesday evening, a police spokesman cited by the state-run…

A family of six was discovered inside a remote farm in the Netherlands, where it is believed they lived in isolation for nine years, according to CNN…

A man pleaded guilty to cocaine possession in Oklahoma — only to withdraw his plea and have his case dismissed after it turned out to be…

As the first bombs fell on Ras al-Ain, residents of the Kurdish-Syrian village frantically collected treasured possessions and fled their homes.…

Scientists have recorded the speed of the world’s fastest ant, which lives in the Sahara and is able to travel 108 times its own body length…

Three nurses and two doctors have been suspended in India’s central Madhya Pradesh state after ants were found crawling on the body of a…

Custom officers stopped the middle-aged woman because of her strange, lumbering gait. They searched her and found vials of blood stashed in her bra,…

An hours-old baby girl was found wrapped in a plastic bag on a quiet street in Indiana — the latest in a series of abandoned babies found…

A Georgia school district has reversed its transgender-friendly bathroom policy after board members, staff and students were threatened, the school…

Imagine writing your autobiography and publishing it in real time across all media, globally. No editing, no going back and choosing what to leave in…

California will launch the nation’s first statewide earthquake early warning system Thursday morning, according to a news release from the…

The leader of one of Hong Kong‘s most prominent pro-democracy groups was hospitalized Wednesday evening after being attacked by a group of men…

The caretaker of a Pakistani house of worship unleashed his pet lion on an electrician who was trying to collect late payment, local police say. The…

If you get a parking ticket in Las Vegas over the next month, you will be able to pay off the fine with a food donation, the city council announced…

The biggest surprise about the Ukraine scandal is that Trump thought he could make it go away by releasing this suspicion-raising rough transcript of…

Leonard Pozner, whose son 6-year-old Noah was killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, was awarded $450,000 in damages by a Wisconsin jury from a…

With only seconds to go before a train barreled through, a Utah state trooper pulled an unconscious driver from his car after it got stuck on the…

Just 11 light years from earth is the GJ 15 A star system with two planets orbiting a red-dwarf star. This makes it the closest solar system to Earth…

The African Union is facing a backlash after terminating the appointment of Arikana Chihombori-Quao, its ambassador to the United States. In a letter…