On this day in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed legislation into law that launched Medicaid, creating a U.S. health ...

A summer camp counselor has accused Spanish police of using brute force against her during the removal of a group of French ...

An independent U.N. investigator and outspoken critic of Israel’s policies in Gaza says that the sanctions recently imposed ...

Shares in Asia were mostly higher on Wednesday after the U.S. and China ended their latest round of trade talks without a ...

Israeli strikes and gunfire in the Gaza Strip killed at least 46 Palestinians overnight into Wednesday morning, most of them among crowds seeking food, local ...

Investigators are piecing together more details about how a former high school football player who blamed the game for his ...

The man who stormed a Manhattan office tower with a gun, killing four people before killing himself, worked in the surveillance department of a Las Vegas casino, part of an ...

The Justice Department says in support of its request to unseal grand jury transcripts of proceedings that led to the sex trafficking indictments of New York financier and sex abuser Jeffrey ...

A powerful earthquake that struck off the coast of Russia generated tsunami warnings and advisories for a broad section of ...

No substantial damage has been reported so far, but authorities warned people away from shorelines and said the risk could last more than a day.

Three days of investigative hearings on the deadly midair collision over Washington in January begin Wednesday and aim to ...

In a rare public outburst on the Senate floor Tuesday, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker took his Democratic colleagues to task, ...