Already the longest-lived of the 45 men to serve as U.S. president, Jimmy Carter is about to reach the century mark. The 39th president, who remains under home hospice care, will turn…
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Seventeen people, including 15 women, were killed in two mass shootings that took place at two homes on the same street in a rural town in South…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. announced an agreement with the Iraqi government Friday to wrap up the military mission in Iraq of an American-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group by next…
On April 16, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill emancipating enslaved people in Washington, the end of a long struggle. But to ease slaveowners’ pain, the District of Columbia Emancipation Act paid…
Mia Mottley told leaders at the annual general debate that over the last four years the world has faced ‘poly-crises.’ “We continue to wrestle with the climate crisis as…
September 26th marks the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. This year’s event comes amid ever-mounting tensions - with dangerously ambiguous changes to Russia’s nuclear doctrine, the…
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. suicides last year remained at about the highest level in the nation’s history, preliminary data suggests. A little over 49,300 suicide deaths were reported in…
WASHINGTON — The current health care system for children is in crisis, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that lays out a road map for…
Global support for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) continues to grow, with Indonesia, Sierra Leone and the Solomon Islands ratifying the landmark agreement at a high-level…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Waverly B. Woodson Jr., who was part of the only African American combat unit involved in the D-Day invasion during World War II, spent more than a…