British Treasury chief Rishi Sunak will announce a 2-billion-pound program to create jobs for young people as the government tries to revive an economy battered by the COVID-19 pandemic

Australia’s prime minister says a shutdown of the nation’s second-largest city is necessary and promised continuing financial support for businesses that fear they won’t survive a second lockdown

Conservationists have captured the first images of a group of rare Cross River gorillas with multiple babies in Nigeria

Two 48-year-old candidates are heading into a tight presidential runoff in Poland that is seen as an important test for populism in Europe

Pounding rain that already caused deadly floods in southern Japan is moving northeast

Australia has isolated the state of Victoria in a bid to contain the worsening spread of the coronavirus as the city of Melbourne prepared for its second lockdown, an example of a resurgent disease in places that initially succeeded in taming it

Pakistan’s daily infection rate dropped below 3,000 for the second straight day, though medical experts caution it may be due to less testing

Beijing’s national security office has been inaugurated in Hong Kong, just over a week after China’s central government imposed a tough new law on the city that critics view as a further deterioration of freedoms promised to the former British colony

President Donald Trump’s point man to North Korea says the U.S. administration is ready to resume stalled nuclear negotiations despite the North’s repeated claims that it has no immediate intent for dialogue with Washington

Activists and towns are left wondering what to do with empty spaces that once honored historic figures tied to racism as statues and monuments fall

Mary Kay Letourneau, who married her former sixth-grade student after she was convicted for raping him, has died

Texas is seeing a surge in the number of people testing positive for the coronavirus since it began aggressively loosening restrictions on gatherings in May

Newly released government data show at least a dozen lawmakers have ties to organizations that received federal coronavirus aid

President Donald Trump is launching an all-out effort to press state and local officials to reopen schools this fall

President Donald Trump is accelerating his use of racially divisive rhetoric, wielding America’s racial tensions as a reelection weapon

Exhausted American cities are facing yet another challenge in addition to the coronavirus and the street protests over the police killing of George Floyd

The top U.S. general for the Middle East is talking optimistically about a smaller, but enduring military presence in the country

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro says he is confident that he will swiftly recover from the new coronavirus thanks to treatment with hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drug that has not been proven effective against COVID-19

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for months flirted with the new coronavirus as he disregarded social distancing at lively demonstrations and encouraged crowds during outings from the presidential residence, often without a mask

Chief Justice John Roberts spent a night in a hospital last month after he fell and injured his forehead

International travel has been little more than a dream in the era of coronavirus

Surveillance video shows at least seven men restraining a Black teenager who later died at a youth facility in Michigan

For his first foreign trip as president, Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador travels to Washington to meet with President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly taken shots at Mexico and Mexican migrants to rally his base

New Zealand authorities say they will press charges against a coronavirus patient who escaped quarantine in Auckland and went shopping at a supermarket

Newly released government data show at least a dozen lawmakers have ties to organizations that received federal coronavirus aid

President Donald Trump is accelerating his use of racially divisive rhetoric, wielding America’s racial tensions as a reelection weapon

President Donald Trump says he's “flexible” on the size of the Republican National Convention in Jacksonville, Florida, as a growing number of Senate Republicans talk about skipping the event

Cory Booker has won New Jersey's Democratic Senate primary

With Congress bracing for the next coronavirus aid package, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is outlining Republican priorities, including a five-year liability protection to shield doctors, schools, businesses and others from COVID-related lawsuits

Two weeks after a cyber-security firm released the identity of an alleged hacker from Kazakhstan, federal authorities in Seattle have unsealed a 2018 indictment charging the man with an array of computer crimes

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro says he has tested positive for the new coronavirus after months of downplaying the virus’ severity

President Donald Trump is launching an all-out effort to press state and local officials to reopen schools this fall

Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson is drawing heat for a sharp commentary that said Democrats should be disqualified from running the country because they despise it

Thousands of people are protesting the Serbian president’s announcement that a lockdown will be reintroduced after the Balkan country reported its highest single-day death toll from the coronavirus

The Supreme Court says the first-ever women to hold two prominent positions at the court are retiring

The personal protective gear that was in dangerously short supply during the early weeks of the coronavirus crisis in the U.S. is running low again

Atlanta's mayor says she doesn’t agree with the Georgia governor’s order to mobilize the National Guard in her city as a surge in violence became a political talking point

President Donald Trump's niece offers a scathing portrayal of her uncle in a new book

Proposed federal legislation that would radically transform the nation’s criminal justice system with such changes as eliminating agencies like the Drug Enforcement Administration and the use of surveillance technology was unveiled Tuesday by the Movement for Black Lives

The state health officer in Mississippi says at least eight of the state's lawmakers have tested positive for the new coronavirus

The U.S. government is launching a national campaign aimed at reducing high suicide rates, particularly among veterans

The Trump administration has formally notified the United Nations of its withdrawal from the World Health Organization

The Trump administration is firing a new shot in its diplomatic war with China by imposing travel bans on Chinese officials it says are restricting foreigners' access to Tibet

NASA has added more safety fixes for Boeing's crew capsule following a pair of close calls during last year's test flight

Doctors at the Vatican’s pediatric hospital said Tuesday they have successfully separated conjoined twins whose skulls were fused back-to-back, an exceedingly rare surgery for an equally rare congenital defect

Venezuela’s government-stacked Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the takeover of opposition leader Juan Guaidó’s political party, the latest in a series of moves against President Nicolás Maduro’s critics before upcoming legislative elections

Fears about possible coronavirus infections from hard-hit Arizona and regional politics south of the U.S.-Mexico border saw American vacationers turned back on the road to the popular tourist resort of Puerto Peñasco over the long July 4 weekend

Johnny Depp has accused his ex-wife Amber Heard of making “sick” claims that he abused her and falsely branded him a monster

The Trump administration is requiring nursing homes to report their COVID-19 cases and deaths

Women’s rights groups are protesting French President Emmanuel Macron’s appointment of an interior minister who has been accused of rape and of a justice minister who has criticized the #MeToo movement