Former Defense Secretary James Mattis, who led the Pentagon through the first two years of the Trump administration, warned during an exclusive interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" that the president's decision to pull troops…

One person was killed and three others are missing after a Hard Rock Hotel under construction in New Orleans collapsed Saturday morning. The city's fire department received a call about the collapse just after 9…

Turkish forces claimed to have taken control of a key Syrian border town Saturday as their assault against Kurdish fighters in the region continued. The Turkish Defence Ministry said that it had seized Ras al-Ayn…

The unnamed Ukrainian official referenced in a federal indictment as directing a plot to oust the then-U.S. ambassador is Ukraine's former chief prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko, according to a U.S. official familiar with the events. According…

Deep within a rainforest in Belize, scientists using lasers beamed from an airplane to peer beneath the dense foliage have discovered evidence of a vast network of ancient Maya farms that date back thousands of…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Friday that would eliminate private, for-profit prisons, including those used for immigration detention, by 2028. Starting on Jan. 2020, the state's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation won't…

The acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is exiting, President Donald Trump tweeted Friday evening. "Kevin McAleenan has done an outstanding job as Acting Secretary of Homeland Security," Trump said on Twitter.…