The head of Australia’s domestic spy agency says the nation faces an unprecedented threat of espionage and foreign interference with more Australians being targeted by agents than ever before.

North Korea’s recent resumption of missile tests highlights underscores its resolve to win the international recognition of a legitimate nuclear state and win outside concessions.

A Pakistani official says gunmen have attacked a police post in the insurgency-hit southwestern province of Baluchistan, triggering a shootout that killed two officers.

Some Iranians in the holy city of Qom, a center of Shiite Muslim shrines and scholarship, are quietly calling on the country’s ruling clerics to reconsider how they deal with unrest.

Voters in a Richmond-based Virginia congressional district are deciding who will represent an open seat previously held by the late Democratic U.S. Rep. Donald McEachin.

The foreign minister of China, which has provided strong political backing for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, says his country wants to play a role in ending the conflict.

Kari Lake lost the race for Arizona governor last year, but she has built a loyal following that stretches far beyond the state.

Papua New Guinea’s police commissioner says security forces are prepared to use lethal force to free a foreign national and three citizens of the South Pacific island nation from armed criminals.

PLAINS, Ga. — Michael Dominick got the call last week that the city’s “smiling peanut” statue that sits on Georgia Highway 45 heading into Plains’ downtown needed to be spruced up. Every few years for the past two decades, Dominick said he has been tas…

DETROIT — Two Detroit police officers were found dead in an apartment in Livonia on Sunday, according to law enforcement. Detroit police Chief James White said the bodies were discovered in the suburban apartment and that the officers’ deaths appeared …