Israeli jets struck the southern suburbs of Beirut early Wednesday for the first time in six days, Lebanese state media reported. The casualty count was not yet clear. The attack comes just one day af ...

In the fight for control of the House this fall, a trio of New York Republican lawmakers are pitching themselves as moderates willing to stand up to their own party as they aim to prove their wins in ...

An Italian navy ship on Wednesday docked at the Albanian port of Shengjin to bring the first group of 16 migrants intercepted in international waters. The naval ship Libra left the port of Lampedusa o ...

By Helen Regan, Lex Harvey, Manveena Suri and Esha Mitra, CNN (CNN) — Twin bomb threats hit Indian airliners on opposite sides of the globe on Tuesday, forcing an emergency landing in the Arctic and ...

The son of a South Carolina inmate is asking the governor to save his father from execution. Inmate Richard Moore is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Nov. 1 for the 1999 killing of a ...

A Democratic former Las Vegas-area politician is due to learn Wednesday how long he’ll serve in Nevada state prison after being convicted of killing an investigative journalist who wrote articles that ...

Chinese and Russian defense officials vowed to strengthen their cooperation during meetings in Beijing this week – in the latest sign of deepening alignment between the neighbors that’s been closely ...

Markets were mostly lower in Asia on Wednesday after U.S. stocks pulled back from their records, dented by selling of technology and energy sector shares. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index fell 1.8% to 39,210.

The extended family of Erik and Lyle Menendez will advocate for the brothers’ release from prison during a news conference set for Wednesday in downtown Los Angeles as prosecutors review new evidence ...

Thousands of Nebraska residents with felony records will learn whether they’ll be able to vote in next month’s hotly-contested elections. The Nebraska Supreme Court says it will issue its ruling ...

Mexico’s former public security chief is set to be sentenced in a U.S. court after being convicted of taking bribes to aid drug traffickers. Prosecutors in Brooklyn federal court have asked that Genar ...

Cellphone chats have become death sentences in the continuing, bloody factional war inside Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel. Cartel gunmen stop youths on the street or in their cars and demand their ...