Two people are confirmed dead after a massive explosion at a Houston industrial company

France has announced two cases of the deadly new virus from China, the first cases in Europe

China is expanding its lockdown against the deadly new virus to an unprecedented 36 million people and rushing to build a prefabricated, 1,000-bed hospital for victims as the outbreak cast a pall over Lunar New Year, the country's biggest and most festive holiday

The Supreme Court doesn't have a public comment line for its own work, much less the Senate's

The impeachment trial that got underway this week is happening at an inopportune time for all four senators in the Democratic primary

Turkish officials say at least four people have been killed in an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 that shook the country's east

Elizabeth Warren says she has more than 1,000 campaign staffers in 31 states and 100-plus field offices, offering a show of organizational strength that will help her win the Democratic presidential nomination

U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy for talks between Serbia and Kosovo says the two Balkan rivals must remove obstacles that have blocked the negotiations for more than a year

“Do The Right Thing” actress Rosie Perez is set to testify at Harvey Weinstein’s trial to back up fellow screen star Annabella Sciorra’s allegation that he raped her in the mid-1990s

Investigators say the tanker plane that crashed and killed its three American crew members as they fought wildfires in Australia had just dropped liquid to suppress the flames

Four aid workers for a French Christian charity have disappeared in Baghdad

A Chicago woman is the second U.S. patient diagnosed with the dangerous new virus from China

The owner of an island home off South Carolina's coast is suing Airbnb

Rep. Adam Schiff has delivered an impassioned plea for removing President Donald Trump from office

Democratic House prosecutors are making their final arguments at Donald Trump's impeachment trial, accusing the president of laboring to cover up his actions with Ukraine that finally led to the charges now against him

The Trump administration pledged Friday to step up efforts against the vast amounts of counterfeit clothing, medicine and other goods that have flooded into the U.S. with the rise in e-commerce

Some see an end to migrant caravans after hundreds of Central Americans were hauled onto to buses by Mexican national guardsmen

President Donald Trump called it his “profound honor" on Friday to be the first president to attend the annual anti-abortion gathering in Washington called the March for Life

Two of the lawyers on President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team have shared another client

The Trump administration is threatening California with a potential loss of federal health care funds over the state's requirement that insurance plans cover abortions

The New Orleans Saints are going to court to keep the public from seeing hundreds of emails that allegedly show team executives doing public relations damage control for the area's Roman Catholic archdiocese to help it contain the fallout from a burgeoning sexual abuse crisis

Auschwitz survivor Bronia Brandman says that educating others by telling her story is the driving force in her life 75 years after the liberation of the death camp

Retired law professor Alan Dershowitz says he hasn't changed at all and has a long history of representing people whose views he doesn't necessarily agree with

The Trump administration has named a 27-year Border Patrol veteran to lead the agency

The company that controls the dot-org online universe is putting it up for sale, and nonprofits are raising concerns about the move

The Pentagon says 34 U.S. troops have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries suffered in this month's Iranian missile strike on an Iraqi air base

A Maine company that severed an underground propane line that caused a deadly explosion was cited for violating the state's Dig Safe law but there will be no criminal charges arising from the incident

Two top EU officials signed overnight the Brexit divorce agreement in a ceremony away from the media

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has met with Pope Francis at the Vatican, discussing the anti-abortion march in Washington and telling the pontiff that he made him "a hero” back home by granting him a private audience Pence was beaming after he and Francis had finished speaking privately for nearly an hour Friday

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Ukraine next week, making his first trip to the country at the heart of President Donald Trump's impeachment

Friends and family were set to gather Friday afternoon in a small Utah town for a funeral to remember a mother and three of her children who police say were killed by her teenage son

Tens of thousands of people rallied in Baghdad to demand the ouster of American troops from Iraq

London's police force says it will start using live facial recognition cameras in operational deployments, in a major advance for the controversial technology

A religious debate pitting the Bible against the Andean earth deity called the Pachamama is happening in Bolivia as the South American country navigates a future without ousted President Evo Morales

Police say six people were killed and another two wounded in a shooting in the southwestern German town of Rot am See

An Afghan-born U.S. citizen already serving life in prison for a bombing in New York City has been sentenced to an additional life term for a shootout with police in New Jersey as he attempted to avoid arrest

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will deliver the Democratic response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Feb. 4

Officials say a man who drove onto a naval station north of Chicago without showing credentials, leading to the base being locked down, turned out to be an employee who didn't follow directions

One of former President Barack Obama's top fundraisers endorsed Joe Biden on Friday, a pledge of support that's likely to boost the former vice president's ability to raise cash for his 2020 campaign

Venezuelan authorities say 11 young people, mostly teenagers, who were hunting small animals died in a fire that swept through a sugarcane field

Elizabeth Warren is creating a team of religious leaders from a variety of backgrounds to serve as an interfaith council for her presidential campaign

French investigators are questioning a bitcoin fraud suspect after he was extradited from Greece

The Trump administration is making a concession on its proposed minimum fuel economy requirement for new vehicles, but environmental groups and a key Democratic senator complain that it does not go far enough, and still falls well below the requirements set under the Obama administration

Women workers danced in protest and striking Eiffel Tower employees shuttered France's most famed monument

For many Americans, how they feel about issues raised during President Donald Trump's impeachment has much to do with where they get their news

Anti-Semitic writing has been scrawled on the door of a now-deceased member of the Italian anti-Fascist resistance who survived a Nazi concentration camp

A court in northern Russia has fined two Jehovah's Witnesses convicted of extremism related to their membership of the religious group, Russian media reported

This weekend's regional elections in the left-wing stronghold of Emilia-Romagna will be a test of Rome's weak coalition government

Cutting off access to entire cities with millions of residents to try to stop a new virus outbreak is a step few countries other than China would consider