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Two U.S. nationals held by Houthi rebels in Yemen have been released, Omani state media said on Wednesday, in what may have been part of a prisoner swap, with Oman sending flights to Sanaa to return 250 Yemenis from the Gulf state and abroad.

With unrivaled credibility on the novel coronavirus that both Donald Trump and Joe Biden are eager to associate with their campaigns, the scientist is being pulled into the closing stage of their battle for the White House.

The Trump administration on Wednesday appointed a senior U.S. human rights official as special coordinator for Tibetan issues, a move likely to anger China amid increasingly tense relations between Washington and Beijing.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said he and House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi were "far apart" on another coronavirus economic relief package, and that a deal would be hard to reach before the Nov. 3 elections, but he would keep trying.

It's the big question looming over one of this year's bloodiest mass shootings: Who opened fire at a crowded house party in Rochester, New York, on the last weekend of summer, killing two teenagers and wounding 14 other people?

A U.S. appellate panel on Wednesday tossed convictions for the former president of Pilot Flying J and two of his former employees related to a rebate scheme to cheat trucking companies out of millions of dollars.

Strong winds fanned two Rocky Mountain wildfires Wednesday, prompting new evacuation orders as one of them spread toward communities that lie outside Rocky Mountain National Park.

Political groups fighting for control of the U.S. Senate have poured more than $118 million into the contest between Montana's Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock and Republican incumbent Steve Daines, a record shattering figure for the sparselypopulated state...

A Russian attempt to broker a ceasefire to end the worst outbreak of hostilities over the disputed region of NagornoKarabakh in more than a quartercentury has failed to get any traction, with rivals Azerbaijan and Armenia trading blame for new attacks.

A trio of space travelers has launched successfully to the International Space Station, for the first time using a fasttrack maneuver to reach the orbiting outpost in just three hours.

Hot, dry conditions and intense winds across California are threatening to reinvigorate what has already been the worst fire season in state history, officials warned on Tuesday.

The expletive-filled video shows Grisanti shouting at the officer who is subduing his wife before he, too, is grabbed by police officers. Keep your hands off of a cop, one of them tells him.

President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden fanned out to critical battleground states on Tuesday as the presidential race entered a final, intense phase amid record numbers of early votes cast.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday created what he called a subcabinet for federal water issues, with a mandate that includes water-use changes sought by corporate farm interests and oil and gas.

A man accused of raising hundreds of roosters in Virginia to ship overseas for cockfighting was sentenced to six months in jail Tuesday.

The U.N. humanitarian chief warned Tuesday that daunting problems in Africas Sahel region are getting worse and the region is very close to a tipping point and so by extension are its African neighbors, Europe, and the world.