In what would have been unthinkable a year ago to what seems like a fairly obvious choice now, Merriam-Webster announced that its Word of the Year is “pandemic.”

Congress is returning to Washington for one last attempt at deal-making this year

If you were to choose a word that rose above most in 2020, which word would it be

President-elect Joe Biden will have an all-female communications team at his White House, led by campaign communications director Kate Bedingfield

French activists fear that a proposed new security law will deprive them of a potent weapon against abuse — cellphone videos of police activity — threatening their efforts to document possible cases of police brutality

The indictment charging two Islamic State militants in the torture and deaths of American hostages in Syria is the culmination of a yearslong legal and diplomatic tussle between the U.S. and Britain

A French-Irish teen was found dead last year near a Malaysian jungle resort.

The trial of two brothers suspected in the killing of a biracial man on a Danish island in June has opened

Turkey has changed the way it reports daily COVID-19 infections, confirming what medical groups and opposition parties have long suspected

As a low pressure system slowly comes together across the South, it is dumping heavy rain from eastern Texas through Louisiana this morning.

He was the target of a secret surveillance warrant during the FBI investigation.

The race will help determine the size of Democrats’ majority in the House.

Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine could be the second vaccine to receive the Food and Drug Administration's emergency use authorization.

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At least 10 men have been targeted in unprovoked assaults since Nov. 10 in Waltham, Massachusetts.

In what would have been unthinkable a year ago to what seems like a fairly obvious choice now, Merriam-Webster announced that its Word of the Year is “pandemic.”

Congress is returning to Washington for one last attempt at deal-making this year

If you were to choose a word that rose above most in 2020, which word would it be

President-elect Joe Biden will have an all-female communications team at his White House, led by campaign communications director Kate Bedingfield

French activists fear that a proposed new security law will deprive them of a potent weapon against abuse — cellphone videos of police activity — threatening their efforts to document possible cases of police brutality

The indictment charging two Islamic State militants in the torture and deaths of American hostages in Syria is the culmination of a yearslong legal and diplomatic tussle between the U.S. and Britain

A French-Irish teen was found dead last year near a Malaysian jungle resort.

The trial of two brothers suspected in the killing of a biracial man on a Danish island in June has opened

Turkey has changed the way it reports daily COVID-19 infections, confirming what medical groups and opposition parties have long suspected

As a low pressure system slowly comes together across the South, it is dumping heavy rain from eastern Texas through Louisiana this morning.