A gunman who took over a SunTrust Bank branch in Florida apparently made the five women inside lie down on the lobby floor before shooting them in the backs of their heads, police said Thursday. ...

Police have charged a Maine mother after her 7-month-old child ingested methamphetamine through breast milk. Authorities say 20-year-old Alyssa Murch, of Bangor, is facing charges of felony aggr...

A nurse who was supposed to be looking after an incapacitated woman at a long-term health care facility was charged Wednesday with raping her, weeks after she stunned her caregivers and family by g...

Diana Athill, a writer and editor who honed the work of novelists including John Updike and Margaret Atwood before finding late-life fame as a frank and fearless memoirist, has died, her publisher ...

National Security and Home Affairs Minister Hermangild Francis in St. Lucia recently pushed back at certain sections of the British press that have suggested that Saint Lucia’s justice system is no...

Update January 24, 2019, 11:27 am: Former Scottish leader Alex Salmond, one of the country's best-known politicians, appeared in court on Thursday on charges including attempted rape and sexual ...

The Latest on the political crisis in Venezuela (all times local): 8:50 a.m. The German government is backing the opposition-led National Assembly in Venezuela, while calling for "free and cr...

The US government is refusing to remove diplomats based in Venezuela after president Nicolas Maduro said he would be cutting ties. In a statement issued Wednesday after rival Juan Guaido declare...

Floods and landslides in a central Indonesian province hit by torrential rains this week have killed 30 people and left more than two dozen missing, the national disaster agency said Thursday. T...

Venezuelans headed into uncharted political waters Thursday, with the young leader of a newly united and combative opposition claiming to hold the presidency and socialist President Nicolas Maduro ...

A former neighbor of a nurse charged with raping an incapacitated woman who later gave birth at an Arizona care facility says he was a quiet family man. Esella Burr said Wednesday that 36-year-o...

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido has declared himself interim president in a defiant speech before masses of anti-government demonstrators who took to the streets Wednesday to demand Presid...

Phoenix police say a licensed practical nurse has been arrested on a charge of sexual assault in the impregnation of an incapacitated woman who gave birth last month at a long-term health care faci...

A senior British Cabinet minister said Wednesday that businesses need to prepare for the possibility the U.K. will leave the European Union in March without an exit deal, as a growing number of fir...

Flight arrivals at Newark Airport were briefly suspended Tuesday evening after a drone was spotted over another nearby airport, officials said, in the latest incident of the unmanned aircraft affec...

Venezuela's re-invigorated opposition faces a crucial test Wednesday as it seeks to fill streets nationwide with protesters in an appeal to the military and the poor to shift loyalties that until r...

The White House is moving forward with plans for President Donald Trump to deliver his State of the Union speech next week in front of a joint session of Congress — despite a letter from House Spea...

Senate leaders on Tuesday agreed to vote on duelling proposals to reopen shuttered federal agencies this week, forcing a political reckoning for senators grappling with the longest shutdown in U.S....

A group of five black men shouting vulgar insults while protesting centuries of oppression. Dozens of white Catholic high school students visiting Washington for a rally to end abortion. And Native...

Tens of thousands of Palestinians are no longer getting food aid or basic health services from America, U.S.-funded infrastructure projects have been halted, and an innovative peace-building progra...