Israel and Hamas moved ahead on a key first step of the tenuous Gaza ceasefire agreement on Monday by freeing hostages and ...

The Egyptian president told a summit of world leaders Monday that U.S. President Donald Trump's Mideast proposal represents ...

A new round of layoffs at the Education Department is depleting an agency that was hit hard in the Trump administration's previous mass firings, threatening new disruption to the nation's students and ...

Three researchers who probed the process of business innovation won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for ...

More than 2.5 million North Carolina residents are getting over $6.5 billion in medical debt eliminated through a state government effort that offered hospitals extra Medicaid funds from Washington if ...

A Republican attack on a core provision of the Voting Rights Act that is designed to protect racial minorities comes to the Supreme Court this week, more than a decade after the justices knocked out ...

Cheers erupted among Palestinians on Monday as Israel released nearly 2,000 prisoners under a Gaza ceasefire agreement that ...

It was a day of joy and tears across Israel. Families, loved ones and friends watched as Hamas released the last living hostages held captive for over two years in the Gaza Strip.

The Vatican took the unusual step on Monday of announcing it had named judges to decide the fate of a famous ex-Jesuit artist, whose mosaics decorate basilicas around the world and who was accused by ...

Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina left the country after an elite military unit turned against the government in an ...

France's financial prosecution office informed former French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday which prison to report to and when, pending his appeal after being sentenced to five years for criminal ...

A judge on Monday heard testimony and was presented with evidence from both sides in the lawsuit of Danny R. Marrs Jr. v. State Board of Education.