Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the Trump administration over guidelines that would strip international students of their visas if their coursework was entirely online as the…

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the way for the Trump administration to give the nation's employers more leeway in refusing to provide free birth control for their workers under the Affordable…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the U.S. from the World Health Organization will damage global efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic as well other deadly diseases such as polio, tuberculosis and HIV,…

China opened its new national security office in Hong Kong on Wednesday, a week after Beijing imposed national security legislation that critics fear will erode the freedoms promised to the former British colony. The Office…

Federal health officials are creating temporary "surge testing" spots to help control the spread of the coronavirus and ease hospitalizations in Florida, Louisiana and Texas. As the COVID-19 epidemic shows no signs of slowing, there…

With a wry smile to cameras, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro slid down his face mask before making a statement Tuesday. After downplaying the severity of the coronavirus for months, he announced that he had tested…

LONDON — As the lurid headlines swirl in the wake of the arrest of Jeffrey Epstein's longtime confidant Ghislaine Maxwell, questions again are surging over what comes next for Britain's Prince Andrew, who is caught…

I was on my fifth spoonful of cake icing and my second box of tissues as I cried over the personal essay of someone who lost a loved one to COVID-19 when I realized I…