Some California counties are pushing ahead with plans to wind down a program that's housed homeless people in hotel rooms amid the coronavirus pandemic

President Donald Trump will not be appearing at an event in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, with his lawyer Rudy Giuliani aimed at trying to discredit the results of the 2020 election, which Joe Biden won

For months, Hawaii locals had Waikiki's famous beaches and other tourist hot spots to themselves as a mandatory two-week quarantine on travelers curbed tourism during the coronavirus pandemic

Congress is bracing for President-elect Joe Biden to move beyond the Trump administration’s state-by-state approach to the coronavirus crisis

Republican Sen. David Perdue of Georgia carried out a series of well-timed stock transactions at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic

President-elect Joe Biden is slated to deliver a Thanksgiving address to the nation seeking to unify Americans in the face of the coronavirus pandemic as experts warn of a possible spike in cases resulting from the holiday

The British government has ditched its long-standing target for overseas aid in order to finance other spending priorities in the year ahead

President-elect Joe Biden’s first wave of Cabinet picks and choices for his White House staff have prized staying power over star power, with a premium placed on government experience and proficiency

Former President Barack Obama is already a million-selling author and also a prize-winning author

Azerbaijan’s president has vowed to rebuild and revive the Kalbajar region, which Armenian forces ceded in a truce that ended six weeks of intense fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh

The cancellation of the beloved Christmas Drawing in Norcatur, Kansas, has shone a spotlight on a global coronavirus pandemic that has reached deep into rural America

With domestic violence on the rise amid the pandemic, activists are holding protests Wednesday from France to Turkey and world dignitaries are trying to find ways to protect millions of women killed or abused every year by their partners

German authorities say a car has crashed into the front gate of the building housing German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s offices, causing minor damage

Global shares have mostly edged down after the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 30,000 points for the first time

Scottish lawmakers have unanimously passed legislation that will make period products freely available to anyone who needs them

Pro-democracy demonstrators in Thailand have again taken to the streets of the capital, even as the government escalated its legal battle against them, reviving the use of a harsh law against defaming the monarchy

The Duchess of Sussex has revealed that she had a miscarriage in July

With major COVID-19 vaccines showing high levels of protection, British officials are cautiously — and they stress cautiously — optimistic that life may start returning to normal by early April

Ethiopia’s prime minister is rejecting growing international consensus for dialogue and a halt to deadly fighting in the country’s Tigray region as “unwelcome,” saying his country will handle the conflict on its own as a 72-hour surrender ultimatum runs out

State officials have launched investigations into a coronavirus outbreak at a veterans nursing home in Illinois that has infected nearly 200 residents and staff members, and killed 27 veterans

For the past four years, President Donald Trump has enjoyed the special status of a world leader on Twitter and Facebook, even as he used his perch atop the social media pyramid to peddle misinformation and hurl abuse at his critics

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam is lauding the city’s new national security law as “remarkably effective in restoring stability,” despite criticism that it is severely narrowing the space for free speech and political opposition in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory

India’s ruling Hindu nationalist party has approved legislation in the country’s most populous state that lays out a prison term of up to 10 years for anyone found guilty of using marriage to force someone to change religion

Mbaye Babacar Diouf's life as a migrant in Europe took a turn for the better when he was adopted in Spain at the age of 28

A New Zealand soldier has been charged with spying and will face up to 14 years in prison if found guilty

Prosecutors say California’s system for paying unemployment benefits is so dysfunctional that the state approved more than $140 million for at least 20,000 prisoners

California’s health secretary urged people to say “no” to family and friends who want to gather for Thanksgiving, joining other officials in issuing dire warnings about the spread of the coronavirus

China’s has stirred controversy with claims to have detected the coronavirus on packages of imported frozen food

The federal government has recognized President-elect Joe Biden as the “apparent winner” of the Nov. 3 election

Some of Joe Biden’s former colleagues in the Senate who are hoping for a spot in his administration may be out of luck

Tennessee's governor says that once coronavirus vaccines become available, they will be optional in the state’s K-12 public schools

Republicans have filed a lawsuit asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to block certification of the presidential election results

Fox News has reached a settlement with the parents of Seth Rich, a former Democratic National Committee employee who was killed in 2016

Waiters and bartenders are losing their jobs – again – as governors and local officials shut down indoor dining and drinking establishments to combat the nationwide surge in coronavirus infections that is overwhelming hospitals and dashing hopes for a quick economic recovery

Lawyers for a Libyan militant convicted in the Benghazi attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans have asked for a new trial, citing what they say is “recently disclosed exculpatory evidence.”

President-elect Joe Biden has introduced his selections for his national security team

President Donald Trump says he is not giving up his fight to overturn the election results, even as agencies across the federal government begin to support President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming administration

With his followers prodded by President Donald Trump, Fox News viewership slipped the two weeks after Election Day compared to the two weeks prior

As President-elect Joe Biden started rolling out his administrative team, one voice has been notably silent: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell

David Dinkins has died 30 years after he became New York City's first Black mayor

Two women who were detained in northern Montana by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents for speaking Spanish while shopping at a convenience store have reached a monetary settlement in their lawsuit against the agency

Nostalgia was in and jokes were out as President Donald Trump offered a reprieve to a pair of meaty turkeys as part of the traditional turkey pardon ceremony at the White House

A 20-year-old from Mississippi has become the first Black, elected student body president at Harvard University

The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that security camera footage of a judge being shot and wounded is a public record

Flooded out Honduran and Guatemalan families stranded on rooftops in the most marginalized neighborhoods after the passage of hurricanes Eta and Iota this month have raised fears of a new wave of migration, observers across the region say

The European Union, the United States and other donors pledged billions in new funding for Afghanistan over the next four years, at the first pledging conference of its kind for the troubled and impoverished country since 2016

Alarm is spiraling over Ethiopia’s imminent tank attack on the capital of the defiant Tigray region, with a rush of warnings about protecting civilians three weeks after the war began

Swiss authorities are investigating as a possible terror attack the stabbing of two women in a department store in the southern city of Lugano, and a suspect has been arrested

Bruce Carver Boynton, a civil rights pioneer who inspired the “Freedom Rides," has died at the age of 83

People in France will be able to go back to their favorite shops and attend religious services again next week, after a month of a partial virus lockdown