Venezuela on Wednesday temporarily shut down major border crossings with neighboring Colombia after three soldiers were attacked while looking for smugglers.
North and South Korea on Thursday exchanged artillery fire along their heavily fortified border. The incident marked an apparent escalation of a dispute over the South's propaganda broadcasts along the border, which Pyongyang insisted must stop within 48 hours.
In an effort to circumvent a Kentucky election law, Republican White House hopeful Rand Paul says he is willing to pay for the Bluegrass State's first-ever presidential caucus himself.
A 20-year-old Mexican woman who had been given an award for her "elegance" at a 2014 local beauty pageant was found dead on Monday at her Sonora residence.
Regularly scheduled commercial flights between the United States and Cuba could be taking off by the end of the year if Washington and Havana reach an agreement on the issue.
A University of Alabama sorority is taken flak over a recruitment video critics call "racially and aesthetically homogeneous," "hyper-feminine" and "objectifying."
President Barack Obama on Tuesday named Raffi Freedman-Gurspan the White House Office of Presidential Personnel's new outreach and recruitment director, a historic appointment because Freedman-Gurspan becomes the first openly transgender official to serve in the Executive Mansion.
Appearing before an immigration court often marks a frightful experience for those fighting for a chance to remain in the United States. But the judges behind the bench are feeling the stress, too.
Ever since he broke with his successor, Juan Manuel Santos, former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe has aggressively used social media to keep himself relevant in the political scene of his South American nation.
As part of a federal racketeering case against him, a Pennsylvania congressman reported to a Philadelphia court complex on Tuesday to be photographed and fingerprinted.
A helper's attempt to keep an apparently distraught 19-year-old from committing suicide cost the man his own life, after he fell from the 14th floor of a University of Hawaii dormitory.
Donald Trump continues to dominate the crowded field of Republican presidential hopefuls and clearly leads the latest poll conducted by CNN and the Opinion Research Corporation.
If you hold a Mega Millions ticket and hope to convert yourself into a millionaire tonight, the time to tune in tonight will be 11 p.m. EDT. That is when the draw for the $39 million jackpot is set to take place at the studios of WSB-TV, Atlanta's ABC affiliate.
For the first time in the program's history, two women are set to graduate from the United States Army Ranger School, often dubbed the "toughest combat course in the world."
A convoluted order issued by a federal judge on Monday means that two same-sex couples in eastern Kentucky still cannot obtain marriage licenses, even though the outcome will "prolong the likely violation of their constitutional rights."
Tension continue to mark ties between Washington and Caracas, even though U.S. and Venezuelan diplomats have been engaged in talks for almost half a year, the South Amercian country's charge d'affaires in Washington said.
Hillary Clinton will appear before a congressional panel on Oct. 22 to testify about her activities as secretary of state at the time of the Benghazi attacks, the chairman of the committee looking into the assault on the the U.S. consulate in Libya said on Sunday.
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Some 60 prominent Mississippians took out a full-page ad in the state's most widely read newspaper on Sunday to demand that the Confederate battle emblem be removed from the Magnolia State's flag.
Marco Rubio could effectively challenge Democrats' advantage among Hispanics - and with it, Hillary Clinton's hopes to move into the White House - the former governor of Montana told CNN on Sunday.
Joe Arpaio, the self-declared "toughest sheriff in America," lacks standing to sue the Obama administration over immigration policies he claims affect his jurisdiction of Maricopa County, Arizona.
Hundreds of flights were either delayed or canceled over the weekend because of a technical problem at an air traffic control center in Leesburg, Virginia.
Real-estate tycoon turned TV personality turned presidential candidate Donald Trump weighed in on some of the issues of the day on Tuesday, suggesting that he "cherishes" women, accusing Hillary Clinton of a crime and promising he would have a "great relationship with Mexico."
Two emails on the private account Hillary Clinton used as secretary of state were marked "Top Secret," a level of classification that is used for information whose disclosure is likely to "cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security."
