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NASA's Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, France's Sophie Adenot and Russia's Andrey Fedyaev departed the orbiting lab on Wednesday, eager to reunite with their families after a lengthy separation.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and wife Cilia Flores, already charged with participating in a conspiracy to send cocaine into the U.S., now also face allegations of human rights abuses during his time as president of the oil-rich South American natio…

"People sometimes view this call to invest more in defense as a hostile thing," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.

Here's a look at places where a cash bump and prime issues might help the party hold their own on election night.

One of the strongest El Niño years on record meant a quiet first four months of the Atlantic hurricane season, but that's no longer the case.

President Donald Trump's administration is suspending tech giant Microsoft from a program to apply for green cards for workers who come to the U.S. to live and work using H-1B visas as it accuses the company of fraud.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters that he would not discuss the allegations contained in a Wall Street Journal story that said U.S.

The university's police department gave her the impression that a criminal investigation was continuing, lawyer Thomas Giuffra told The Associated Press.

President Donald Trump on Thursday is expected to hand out several of the nation's highest science and technology honors, including to the entrepreneur and former DOGE chief Elon Musk.

In Thursday's statement, Rospotrebnadzor rejected reports about a second person falling ill after coming into contact with the lab worker as fake.

The original deadline was Sept. 30, but the U.S.

Saint had one of the most spectacular debuts in Hollywood history, as the love interest of Marlon Brando's tormented Terry Malloy in "On the Waterfront."

Anger and backlash are building at Cornell University this week over the way the school handled an alleged gang rape in 2024.

Protests are continuing in France, a day after more than 250,000 people took to the streets across the country to demand education reforms.

In our news wrap Wednesday, Christa Pike's lawyers say she is "angry and confused" after regaining consciousness following her botched execution, a congressional candidate in Arizona says she was raped while trying to repair campaign signs and Tropical St…

While much of the focus this midterm season is on congressional races, there are also 36 states across the country holding elections for governor.

Republicans hold a massive financial advantage, but it's Democrats making gains in the polls in the final month of the midterm elections cycle.

A growing body of evidence suggests that GLP-1 drugs are not only helping millions with their diabetes and weight loss, but they're also proving effective at curbing people's desire for drugs and alcohol.

Israel is marking the third anniversary of one of its darkest days.

Three years after Oct. 7, two fathers are reaching across the gulf that divides Israelis and Palestinians.

Tropical Storm Isaias could make landfall on the U.S.

President Donald Trump says his administration will make one-time payments of $90 per person to help more than 20 million Medicare enrollees pay for their Part B premiums.

The Nobel Prize in literature will be announced Thursday.

The union representing thousands of flight attendants said Wednesday it has safety concerns about President Donald Trump's proposed triumphal arch that will be on final approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Farmers, truckers and economists say a move to cut taxes on diesel will provide little relief from record-high fuel prices that have soared since the U.S. attacked Iran months ago.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a sweeping speech against the backdrop of the Acropolis in Athens, called for the nations of the West to return to their civilizational roots and restore the values that drove the rise of Europe and North America to glob…

The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday proposed a $70,000 fee for international students seeking to work in the United States, the latest effort from the Trump administration to crack down on foreign enrollment.

The Democratic National Committee on Wednesday sued President Donald Trump's administration for recent television advertisements that promoted his political message while costing taxpayers millions of dollars.

FBI agents thwarted a terror attack by a teenager on the Mall of America after monitoring him for nearly two years and ultimately supplying him with the assault rifle he planned to use, authorities said Wednesday.

The shock gloves immigration agents could soon use to control detainees and protesters worked so powerfully during a military exercise that participants felt intense pain, stopped fighting immediately and feared additional exposures, according to a previo…

President Donald Trump is traveling again to the Lone Star State Wednesday for the second time in less than a week.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that 70 million children under the age of 18 will now have automatic "Trump Accounts" set up by the government to invest in stocks.

The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier returns home to California Thursday, the Navy announced Friday, following a record-setting uninterrupted time at sea supporting the Iran war and intense scrutiny over ship conditions.

As Israel gears up for its first elections since Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his opponents are putting it at the heart of their campaigns.

In one of the most competitive Senate races this year, Republican Rep.

Howard's attorneys have argued that he is intellectually disabled and his execution should be halted.

Russian state TV and other national state-controlled media have steered clear of the subject.

Republican Sen.

Isaias formed early Wednesday in the warm waters off eastern Mexico and forecasters said it was expected to strengthen into the first hurricane of the Atlantic season before hitting the U.S.

A Kenyan citizen who had been living in Congo before returning to Nairobi over the weekend became Kenya's first confirmed case of Ebola and the country's first death from the disease in the fast-moving outbreak, authorities said Tuesday

A lawyer for ABC on Tuesday asked a federal judge to prevent the Trump administration from conducting an unusual, early review of its broadcast licenses, likening it to a looming execution by guillotine that was already chilling the network's editorial de…

The Nobel Prize in chemistry will be announced Wednesday.

More than a quarter-million people poured into the streets across France on Tuesday, a dramatic development in a student-led movement that began at one single high school.

British police arrested a 22-year-old on suspicion of terrorism offenses connected to a possible plot against the RAF Fairford air base.

In our news wrap Tuesday, Cornell named former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates to lead an independent review of how the school handles sexual assault reports on campus, lawyers for Christa Pike said she's awake and speaking after surviving a botched e…

Ahead of the midterm elections, the Department of Justice is leading a high-profile effort to catch and prosecute people they say illegally cast ballots, sometimes holding televised press conferences to make the announcements.

Over the weekend, the family of Pierre Damas Bel laid him to rest.

The Taliban's return in Afghanistan has brought economic collapse and deep uncertainty, especially for young people.

Brett McGurk served under four presidential administrations, ultimately working as President Biden's lead on foreign policy in the Middle East.

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