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On the 30th anniversary of the last hurricane to make a direct hit on New England, the region warily braced Thursday for Tropical Storm Henri as it gathered strength and headed for the northeastern U.S.

The U.S. State Department said on Thursday it was sending more consular officers to Kabul and other locations, including Qatar and Kuwait, to help with the evacuation effort from Afghanistan after the Taliban seized Kabul on Sunday.

A white Iowa woman who said she drove her SUV into two children in 2019 to try to kill them because of their race was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison on federal hate crimes charges.

Faced with a potential new migration wave from Afghanistan, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on European nations Thursday to shoulder the responsibility for Afghans fleeing the Taliban and warned that his country wont become Europes refugee w...

Now that Taliban have succeeded in seizing control of Afghanistan, here is a rundown of the top leaders who play significant roles in the militant organisation.

San Francisco's district attorney said Wednesday he is suing three California companies that make and distribute ghost guns, the untraceable, buildityourself weaponry that accounted for nearly half the firearms recovered in gun killings in the city last y...

Mister Rogers' deliveryman's son, whos now a reallife mail carrier, briefly appeared this week on an episode of a childrens show based on one of Mister Rogers puppets.

The former school resource officer accused of hiding during a South Florida school shooting that left 17 people dead said after a hearing Wednesday that he never would have sat idle if he had known people were being killed.

In 1994, Mullah Omar formed a group of nearly 50 followers in Kandahar, Afghanistan, who came to be known as the 'Taliban'.

The Prime Minister underlined that any recognition of the new government in Afghanistan to happen on an international, not unilateral basis

The incident took place on August 14 when hundreds of youngsters were celebrating Independence Day at Azadi Chowk near Minar-i-Pakistan in Lahore

Quake damage to several major hospitals hampered humanitarian efforts, and doctors in makeshift tents outside battled to save the lives of the many injured

House Democrats on Tuesday put forward a new proposal to update the landmark Voting Rights Act, seeking against long odds to revive the civil rightsera legislation that once served as a barrier against discriminatory voting laws.

Health activists in Africa have slammed Johnson & Johnson for exporting vaccines produced in South Africa to countries in Europe, which have already immunized large numbers of their people and have even donated vaccines to more needy countries.

A dozen Belarusian officers in riot gear illegally crossed into Lithuanian territory on Tuesday while pushing a group of 35 Iraqi migrants over the border, Lithuania's border guard service said.

A Bulgarian man has pleaded guilty to his role in a scheme to create counterfeit ATM cards that were then used to steal money from other people's bank accounts, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.