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Former diplomat and presidential advisor Henry Kissinger marks his 100th birthday on Saturday, outlasting many of his political contemporaries who guided the United States through one of its most tumultuous periods.

Finland was listed as the happiest country in the world, according to a recent study. Where does the United States rank? Here are the results.

New York can for now continue to enforce a sweeping new law that bans guns from “sensitive places” including schools, playgrounds and Times Square, the Supreme Court said Wednesday, allowing the law to be in force while a lawsuit over it plays out. The justices turned away an emergency request by New York gun owners challenging the law. The gun owners wanted the...

The U.S. military says a Chinese fighter jet flew dangerously close to an Air Force reconnaissance plane over the South China Sea

Nearly 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year. That’s according to final figures released Thursday.

The mountain lion P-22, who lived in Los Angeles for more than a decade was “compassionately euthanized” Saturday morning because of the serious injuries he suffered earlier this week, officials said.

The U.S. House has passed a bill that would allow Puerto Rico to hold the first-ever binding referendum on whether to become a state or gain some sort of independence. What this could mean. (Video by Jennifer Vazquez)

USA, Mexico and Canada will all host the next World Cup. North America will share the tournament in 2026, hosting 48 teams from around the globe.

LA City Councilman Kevin de León and activists exchanged assault allegations Friday night during a Christmas tree lighting event in Los Angeles.

The Miami Dolphins quarterback at the center of the NFL’s overhaul of its concussion protocols and the Ukrainian city that’s home to Europe’s largest nuclear plant are among this year’s list of most mispronounced words.

The Biden administration said Monday that it would expand temporary legal status for Haitians already living in the United States, determining conditions in the Caribbean nation were too dangerous for their forced return.

New data shows an experimental Alzheimer’s drug modestly slowed the brain disease’s inevitable worsening. The next question is how much difference that might make in people’s lives.

Hundreds of people have gathered at Harvard University and near Chinese consulates in New York and Chicago to support protesters who have called for that country’s leader to step down amid severe anti-virus restrictions in the biggest demonstrations against the government in Beijing in decades.

Shanquella Robinson’s death at a resort development in the Baja resort town of San Jose del Cabo shocked people in both countries.

A girl was killed Saturday when she was struck by a vehicle towing a float for a holiday parade in North Carolina, police said

Republicans are getting ready to investigate President Joe Biden’s son Hunter next year when they take control of the U.S. House.

The retired bishop of Albany, New York, is asking Pope Francis to be removed from the priesthood. Emeritus Bishop Howard Hubbard announced the decision Friday in a statement.

Myanmar’s military-controlled government released an Australian academic, a Japanese filmmaker, an ex-British diplomat and an American as part of a broad prisoner amnesty that also freed many local citizens held for protesting the army takeover. Australia, the U.S. and rights groups welcomed the releases while calling for Myanmar to free others unjustly detained. State media said Australian Sean Turnell, Japan’s...

The office of Georgia’s attorney general says it will appeal a ruling that overturns a ban on most abortions starting around six weeks of pregnancy. The ruling Tuesday by a judge in Fulton County applies statewide. The ruling says the ban violated the U.S. Constitution and U.S. Supreme Court precedent at the time it became law in 2019. The ban...

The United Nations says the world’s population is reaching the 8 billion mark on Tuesday. The projection came in a U.N. report released in July that said much of the growth expected between now and 2050 is coming from just eight countries.