Japan's health ministry said Wednesday that 39 new cases of a virus have been confirmed on a cruise ship quarantined at a Japanese port.
Sen. Bernie Sanders took an early lead as the first results of New Hampshire's Democratic primary rolled in.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday the military may look at disciplinary action against former national security aide Alexander Vindman, who testified in Trump's impeachment trial.
A grand jury returned a six-count indictment accusing actor Jussie Smollett of lying to Chicago police when he reported a racist and homophobic attack last year, a special prosecutor announced Tuesday. Smollett faces six counts of disorderly conduct, special prosecutor Dan Webb said in a statement.
The Justice Department said Tuesday it will take the extraordinary step of lowering the amount of prison time it will seek for Roger Stone, an announcement that came just hours after President Donald Trump complained that the recommended sentence for his longtime ally and confidant was "very horrible and unfair."
The World Health Organization says there have now been 42,708 cases of the new coronavirus reported in China as of midnight ET, leading to 1,017 deaths. And the respiratory disease given has a new official name: COVID-19.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, appearing before the UN Security Council, angrily rejected U.S. President Donald Trump's Middle East peace proposal on Tuesday as a gift to Israel and unacceptable to Palestinians.
A top Sudanese official said Tuesday the country's transitional authorities and rebel groups have agreed to hand over former autocratic president Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court to face trial for war crimes, including mass killings in Darfur.
Michael Avenatti's recorded threats to reduce the value of Nike's stock if he wasn't paid millions of dollars highlighted a prosecutor's closing argument Tuesday at the prominent lawyer's extortion trial.
Torrential rain across Australia's east could extinguish all remaining bushfires in the New South Wales by the end of the week, authorities said on Tuesday, though in Victoria officials expect it to dampen, rather than extinguish, many of the 20 existing fires there.
Harvey Weinstein's lawyers are set to rest their defence case Tuesday, but not before answering the big question looming over his New York City rape trial: Will he take the risk of testifying?
More people have fled fighting in Syria over the past 10 weeks than at any other time in the nine-year-old conflict and the city of Idlib, where many are sheltering, could become a graveyard if hostilities continue, two UN agencies say.
The Philippines notified the United States on Tuesday it would end a major security pact allowing American forces to train in the country, in the most serious threat under President Rodrigo Duterte to their 69-year treaty alliance.
The founder of the South African music group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Joseph Shabalala, has died at age 78, the state broadcaster reported Tuesday.
According to the most recent polls, former vice-president Joe Biden is struggling, and Pete Buttigieg, the former South Bend, Ind. mayor is expected to finish second behind Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Rescuers have recovered at least 16 bodies after an overcrowded boat carrying about 125 Rohingya refugees sank off an island in the Bay of Bengal
