WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order on policing Tuesday amid increasing pressure and nationwide protests over the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks and other African Americans at the hands…

The coronavirus pandemic has climate scientists asking a surprising question: Will humans ever emit more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than they did last year? Emissions of the climate-heating gases have been on the rise…

WASHINGTON — The alleged theft of CIA hacking tools by one of the agency's own officers — the worst data loss in CIA history — exposed a culture of "woefully lax" security around the agency's…

A Wendy's employee who called 911 before the fatal police shooting of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta told the dispatcher that a customer who appeared to be intoxicated was asleep in his car in the restaurant's…

A common steroid drug that's been used for decades to treat conditions from altitude sickness to eye inflammation has been shown to reduce deaths by a third in the sickest patients in the hospital with…

At least three soldiers died in border clashes between China and India on Tuesday, the Indian army said, the first deaths for 53 years in the standoff between these two nuclear-armed powers. The world's two…

BEIJING — The number of new coronavirus cases in a fresh outbreak in the Chinese capital of Beijing passed 100 on Tuesday, according to health officials who have rushed to impose restrictions across the densely…

LGBTQ advocates rejoiced Monday after the U.S. Supreme Court issued an unexpectedly broad ruling that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — specifically, Title VII of the act, which prohibits workplace discrimination on the basis…