Before leaving Saturday, lawmakers confirmed President Trump’s attorney general pick and passed a spending bill.

A key zone of the Pacific Ocean is already at record warmth. See how rising sea temperatures could impact global weather.

Surprise nominees and candidate scandals are scrambling the battle for Congress. U.S. water systems are ripe for cyberattacks ...

The World Health Organization says the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak started in February, months before it was officially declared in May ...

By finally enforcing our immigration laws we will raise wages, help the unemployed, save billions and billions of dollars and ...

Dear Miss Manners: When I am sick, I need to rest and conserve my energy. I don’t want visitors, as then I feel I have to host, perform and even offer food and drink when all I want to do is sleep.

As a food writer, and recipe tester and developer, it’s probably not unreasonable that I have an extensive library of cookbooks, many of which are devoted to specific techniques and cuisines that I ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia on Monday, shaking the South American nation and neighboring Ecuador and prompting people to evacuate homes and buildings ...

MADRID — Rayo Vallecano will play its first home game of the season at second-tier Leganes’ stadium because of unsafe conditions at its own venue. Vallecano had been searching for somewhere to host ...

Wildfire smoke is once again pouring across the United States following a weekend of new blazes across Canada’s British Columbia. A total of 11 new fires were reported across that province, where a ...

Shares are mostly higher in Asia, with Japan’s Nikkei 225 leading advances after U.S. stocks ended last week with gains ...

ISHKASHIM, Afghanistan — More than three years after the Taliban seized power, Afghanistan remains economically decrepit and politically isolated. But now, the Taliban government has a plan to turn ...