Hurricane Patricia, currently headed toward Mexico's Pacific coast, has become the strongest hurricane ever recorded by the U.S. National Hurricane Center.
Following the recent rapprochement between the United States and Cuba, U.S. air carriers are eager to resume commercial flights to the Caribbean destination. But Republican presidential hopeful and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie wants no such flights to depart from the Garden State.
The office of a University of Washington professor who recently sued the Central Intelligence Agency was burglarized this week, in what the academic called a "suspicious" coincidence.
U.S. Secretary of Defense John Kerry recently met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Thursday. While the two leaders were discussing the steps to end the Palestinian-Israeli violence, two Palestinians apparently stabbed an Israeli civilian.
In light of the recent nuclear tensions involving Pakistan and India, U.S. President Barack Obama met up with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Thursday, at the White House in Washington in the hopes of limiting Pakistan's nuclear weapon program.
Mexican authorities say they've detained several people connected to the escape of legendary drug lord Joaqin "El Chapo" Guzman, including the escapee's brother-in-law.
Chile has just introduced a new law that will make it easier for unmarried couples who live together to co-own property and make medical decisions for one another
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton faced a key moment in her 2016 presidential campaign on Thursday, as she fielded questions from the congressional committee investigating the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which occurred during her tenure as the nation's top diplomat.
Seventy Kurdish hostages were rescued after special U.S. forces, working with Kurdish commandos, attacked an Islamic State outpost located near the Iraqi town of Hawija. One U.S. soldier was killed in the raid.
Brazil, South America's most populous country and arguably among one of the continent's strongest democracies, will not observe upcoming legislative elections in Venezuela after the government of embattled President Nicolás Maduro vetoed Brasilia's choice to head its delegation.
The 14-year-old Muslim student who was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to his Texas high school as it was mistaken for a bomb last month has accepted a scholarship to attend school in Qatar.
In a speech delivered at the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem on Tuesday, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that a Palestinian leader persuaded the Nazis to carry out the Holocaust.
Embattled Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad left his war-torn country for the first time in years on Tuesday to visit Russian President Vladimir Putin, a close ally propping up his regime, in Moscow.
The Vatican on Wednesday strongly denied and condemned a report that Pope Francis, the head of the world's more than 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, was suffering from brain cancer.
