So much for Ohio flattening the coronavirus curve. Gov. Mike DeWine moved aggressively to slow the spread of the virus by shutting down the economy and issuing stay-at-home orders, but COVID-19 numbers have been climbing…

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who has taken flak for not aggressively moving to contain the coronavirus rampaging through his state, changed course Thursday and made the wearing of masks in public mandatory in any county…

WASHINGTON — Sweden said Thursday that Iran has agreed to compensate the families of victims who were killed when a Ukrainian airliner was shot down by Iranian forces outside Tehran in January. Sweden's Foreign Minister…

A Zen Buddhist priest filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against Attorney General William Barr and other officials seeking to delay one of the four executions set to begin this month, which would be the first…

In Chile, government officials have planned to grant "immunity passports." In the United Kingdom, Health Secretary Matt Hancock proposed issuing "immunity bracelets." And the idea of "immunity certificates" was briefly discussed in the United States…

A sustained blast of heat is expected to bake much of the United States with hotter-than-usual temperatures this holiday weekend, and forecasts suggest that the heat and the humidity could linger for several weeks. The…

READINGTON, New Jersey — March 4 had been circled on New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s calendar for weeks. It was surgery day, to remove a cancerous tumor that had developed on one of his kidneys.…

When the Emmy-winning period drama "Mad Men" returns to streaming later this month, an episode featuring one of the main characters appearing in blackface will be prefaced by a disclaimer, the studio behind the series…