TOKYO (AP) — Japanese and U.S. defense chiefs and top diplomats agreed to further bolster their military cooperation by upgrading the command and control of U.S. forces in the East Asian country and s...

By MELANIE LIDMAN AND SAMY MAGDY Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The Middle East was bracing for a potential flare-up in violence on Sunday after Israeli authorities said a rocket from Lebano...

By JOHN ANTCZAK AND HOLLY RAMER Associated Press A wildfire that has tripled in size in one day, becoming California’s largest of the year even as other blazes scorched the Pacific Northwest, was star...

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, MARÍA VERZA AND CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a longtime leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, and Joaquín Guzmán López, a son ...

By JIM MUSTIAN AND JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — In a WhatsApp chat that quickly devolved into depravity, a group of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents boasted about their “wor...

By SIBI ARASU AND SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press Monday was recorded as the hottest day ever globally, beating a record set the day before, as countries around the world from Japan to Bolivia to the...

By MATTHEW BROWN, AMY BETH HANSON AND MEAD GRUVER Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A surprise eruption of steam in a Yellowstone National Park geyser basin that sent people scrambling for safet...

When it comes to climate, extreme weather and other so-called natural disasters, people generally look to America’s hurricane or earthquake prone coasts and say that’s where the danger is. But that’s ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Even before President Joe Biden’s long-speculated withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race, allies of former President Donald Trump floated the possibility of suing to block Democr...

By ANDREW MELDRUM AND JILL LAWLESS Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to end his campaign for reelection brings a new element of uncertainty for Ukraine, which i...

The president is being praised for putting national interests ahead of his personal ambition. WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic lawmakers hailed President Joe Biden’s historic decision on Sunday not to see...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sitting in the Oval Office behind the iconic Resolute desk in 2022, an animated President Joe Biden described the challenge of leading a psychologically traumatized nation. The Unite...

By PAUL J. WEBER AND VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Employees of the largest housing provider for unaccompanied migrant children in the U.S. repeatedly sexually abused and hara...

By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-MCLAY, ELAINE KURTENBACH AND DAVID MCHUGH Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — A global technology outage caused by a faulty software update grounded flights, knocked banks a...

By LEAH WILLINGHAM AND JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Newly minted vice presidential nominee JD Vance built his Wednesday night speech to the Republican National Convention...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a surprise visit to troops in southern Gaza on Thursday, his office said, days before his speech to the U.S. Congress. Netanyahu’s visit...

By MICHAEL BIESECKER, MARTHA BELLISLE, JIM MUSTIAN AND PETER SMITH Associated Press BETHEL PARK, Pa. (AP) — After several days, an enigmatic portrait emerged of the 20-year-old man who came close to k...

By JULIE CARR SMYTH AND JOHN RABY Associated Press BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — On the streets of Butler, Pennsylvania, in the wake of Saturday’s assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, the same...

By URI BLAU and MILAN CZERNY OF SHOMRIM and JOSEF FEDERMAN OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM (AP) — Under American pressure, Israel has pledged to deliver large quantities of humanitarian aid into the...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes killed more than 60 Palestinians in southern and central Gaza overnight and into Tuesday, including one that struck an Israeli-declared “safe zone” ...