San Antonio doctor said he performed an abortion in defiance of a new Texas law.

A U.S. intelligence officer suffered symptoms linked to a series of directed-energy attacks known as “Havana syndrome” while traveling with Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns in India earlier this month

The Biden administration is taking aim at the financial marketplace for criminal ransomware gangs

Puerto Rico’s governor has signed a bill to increase the U.S. territory’s minimum wage for the first time in more than 12 years

The new charges involve a 2016 illegal campaign contribution scheme.

A shooter killed three people in the drive-thru area of a Wendy’s restaurant in suburban Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Many sixth- and seventh-graders who turn 12 later in the school year are choosing not to go back to the classroom until they get their COVID-19 vaccine.

A former probation officer has been found guilty for her role in the kidnapping and killing of a Minneapolis real estate agent

The company that operates the Dakota Access oil pipeline wants the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse an appellate ruling ordering additional environmental review

An Oklahoma man has been sentenced to more than a dozen years behind bars after he pleaded no contest in a case in which he was accused of illegally performing a surgery at a cabin in the woods

A sheriff says no charges will be filed against a South Carolina father whose 20-month-old boys died from heat after he forgot to drop them off at daycare

German police say they have solved a burglary case at a kindergarten after a storytelling gadget the suspect had swiped revealed his location

President Joe Biden's speech to the U.N. General Assembly Tuesday will preview "a chapter of intensive diplomacy" to address COVID-19 and climate change, officials said.

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The cashier was fatally shot after telling a customer to put on a face covering Saturday, police said.

Fourteen black-and-white Magellanic penguins returned to Argentina’s Atlantic coast after being rehabilitated from a variety of ailments, including malnutrition, hypothermia and dehydration.

Drone video shows lava flowing into fields and inhabited areas of Spain's La Palma island, where a volcanic explosion destroyed at least 100 homes.

One-year-old twin sisters Iris and Ella opened a baby gate to meet their dad in the kitchen for dinner.

Slow-motion footage shows a volcano erupting in Spain’s Canary Islands, where the regional government evacuated nearly 5,000 people.

The four astronauts raised millions of dollars for St. Jude Children’s Hospital.

The pilots were conducting a training exercise at the time of the crash, the Fort Worth Fire Department said.

The KNP Complex Fire is rapidly growing as it threatens homes and giant sequoia trees in California.

A woman in New York tried playing a prank on her dog by pretending to choke, but the pet’s reaction backfired.

The four-person crew aboard the Falcon 9, the first all-civilian mission to space, ran the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange while orbiting the Earth for three days.

The Huachipa Zoo in Lima welcomed eight baby Humboldt penguins in July and is expecting six more additions in October.