The Justice Department is sending out more than $200 million to help states and the District of Columbia administer “red-flag laws” and other crisis-intervention programs.

The handprints of military children pressed onto paper hearts will decorate a corner of the White House as first lady Jill Biden celebrates Valentine’s Day.

Officials from India’s Income Tax department began conducting searches Tuesday at the BBC’s offices in the capital, New Delhi, three of the broadcaster’s staff members told the Associated Press.

Rescuers on Tuesday were working to reach people under the rubble in three provinces hit hard by the powerful and devastating quake that hit Turkey and Syria last week.

Syrian women have shouldered the responsibility of keeping families together during a dozen years of civil war — and now, in the devastating aftermath of an earthquake.

With the prospect of a sixth consecutive failed rainy season in the east and Horn of Africa, Kenya’s president is hoping the heavens will finally open with the help of a national day of mass prayer on Tuesday.

ISLAHIYE, Turkey — A week after a devastating earthquake struck Turkey and Syria, with families crowded under tarps and cardboard shelters, a severe shortage of tents, housing and medical supplies is imperiling relief efforts, leaving survivors struggl…

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has sent 222 political leaders, priests, students, activists and other dissidents to the United States, whose release was long demanded by the international community.

President Joe Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump, are preparing for a possible rematch in 2024.

The United States has renewed a warning that it will defend its treaty ally if Filipino forces come under an armed attack in the disputed South China Sea after a Chinese coast guard ship allegedly hit a Philippine patrol vessel with military-grade lase…