Today marks the winter solstice: the shortest day of the year, and the official start to astronomical winter! Despite "winter ...

Plunging participation in girls basketball led one of Nebraska’s largest high schools to cancel its varsity team for the year. The decision by Grand Island Senior High School — the state’s ...

On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built to house the remains of former Syrian President Hafez Assad — whose son, Bashar Assad, was ousted two weeks ago — vandals have sprayed variations of the ...

Winter is hitting the Gaza Strip and many of the nearly 2 million Palestinians displaced by the devastating 14-month war with Israel are struggling to protect themselves from the wind, cold and rain.

The first round of the College Football Playoff is in the books after the expanded playoff brought games to campuses for the first time, an incredible display of the best parts of college football – ...

The Senate approved a slimmed-down, temporary government spending plan early Saturday morning, averting a shutdown of the ...

Berlin (CNN) — At least five people – including a child – were killed and more than 200 injured after a car plowed into a ...

The U.S. military says two U.S. Navy pilots have been shot down over the Red Sea in an apparent “friendly fire” incident. Both pilots were recovered alive, with one suffering minor injuries in the ...

Two US Navy pilots ejected safely after their fighter jet was shot down over the Red Sea on Saturday in an apparent friendly fire incident, US Central Command said in a statement. The pilots were ...

The Moken, a group of indigenous people from Thailand and Myanmar, once sailed freely between the archipelago of 800 islands off the coast of the two countries. Colloquially known as sea nomads, they ...

AYOD, South Sudan (AP) — Flooding is becoming a yearly disaster in South Sudan. The World Bank has described the nation as “the world’s most vulnerable country to climate change and also the one most ...

By Zoe Sottile, Ashley R. Williams, Taylor Galgano and Sarah Dewberry, CNN (CNN) — A man drove into a Texas mall after a 19-mile police pursuit, striking four people before he was fatally shot by ...