President Joe Biden will start the new Senate session on Tuesday by resubmitting 85 nominations that fell short last year.

Lincoln Almond, the former two-term Republican governor of Rhode Island and longtime U.S. attorney in the state has died at age 86.

Police and security officials say a gunman shot and killed two intelligence officers in an attack outside a roadside restaurant in eastern Pakistan before fleeing.

Lines of people wanting to honor Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s service to the Catholic church have formed in St. Peter’s Square for a second day.

Longtime Associated Press Vatican correspondent Victor L.

An ultranationalist Israeli Cabinet minister has visited a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site for the first time since taking office in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new far-right government last week.

The new Congress opens with House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy grasping for his political survival.

South Korea has reconfirmed that Seoul and Washington are discussing its involvement in U.S. nuclear asset management to cope with intensifying North Korean nuclear threats.

A pilot, two British visitors and a Sydney woman have been identified as the four people killed in a collision of two helicopters over the waterfront on Australia’s Gold Coast.

On a windswept morning last spring, Mom Leveille slipped into a flowing red dress and high-heeled sandals and headed to a ballpark in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, her nerves jangled. A Cambodian refugee, Leveille had applied for U.S.