The Biden administration is imposing strict new limits on dust from lead-based paint in older homes and child-care facilities. The move comes two weeks after it set a nationwide deadline for removal ...

A Cambodian investigative reporter who was charged with a criminal offense after exposing online scams and corruption has been released on bail. Mech Dara told reporters Thursday after his release ...

Several Pacific island nations singled out Australia to do more to phase out fossil fuel exports during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting which opened in Samoa on Thursday. Tuvalu’s Prime ...

Turkey struck suspected Kurdish militant targets in Syria and Iraq for a second day on Thursday following an attack on the premises of a key defense company which killed at least five people, the ...

The Museum of Modern Art was filled with expletives and laughter Wednesday evening as Samuel L. Jackson’s family and friends celebrated the actor and director’s storied career of box office hits, ...

Pakistan’s military says security forces have killed nine insurgents in a shootout in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in the volatile northwestern region that borders Afghanistan. Troops ...

Every year, thousands of South Koreans – mostly middle-aged men – die quietly and alone, cut off from their family and friends. It sometimes takes days or even weeks before their bodies are found.

France on Thursday hosts an international conference for Lebanon to rally military and humanitarian aid for the country where war between Hezbollah militants and Israel has displaced a million people, ...

Associated Press Family, friends and followers of Fethullah Gülen are gathering to pay respects to the influential Turkish spiritual leader and Islamic scholar who died this week in self-exile in the ...

Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, tensions over abortion have only intensified, setting the presidential election up as a referendum on fundamental rights for tens of ...

None of the nation’s 12 female governors are up for reelection, but five women are competing as major party gubernatorial nominees in four states. Two of them are in New Hampshire, where Republican ...