Tropical Storm Laura churned just south of Cuba Monday after killing at least 11 people in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, where it knocked out power and caused flooding in the two nations that share the island of Hispaniola.
In a press release Monday, several conservation groups say the U.S.'s leasing program for oil and gas development on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's coastal plain is illegal.
Republican National Committee delegates have approved a resolution condemning the Southern Poverty Law Center, calling the legal advocacy group dedicated to fighting extremism "a far-left organization with an obvious bias."
Greece said Monday that its navy and air force will conduct military exercises in an area of the eastern Mediterranean where Turkey is prospecting for oil and gas as the neighbouring countries remain locked in a dispute over offshore energy rights.
A Hong Kong man who recovered from the COVID-19 illness caused by the coronavirus was infected again four-and-a-half months later in the first documented instance of human reinfection, researchers at the University of Hong Kong said on Monday.
Families and survivors had their first chance to confront the white supremacist who killed 51 worshippers in a mass shooting at two New Zealand mosques as his four-day sentencing hearing began Monday.
TikTok said on Monday that "we simply have no choice" but to sue the Trump administration over U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order banning U.S. transactions with the popular short-form video-sharing app.
Republicans are ready to formally nominate President Donald Trump for re-election at a scaled-down convention kickoff in Charlotte, N.C., that begins a weeklong effort to convince the American people that he deserves a second term.
Tests conducted on Russian dissident Alexei Navalny at a German hospital indicate that he was poisoned, but doctors said Monday they do not believe his life is at immediate risk.
Belarusian authorities on Monday detained three leading activists who have helped spearhead a wave of protests demanding the resignation of the country's authoritarian president following his re-election in a vote opponents say was rigged.
Facing a backlash over operational changes that have resulted in mail delays, the nation's new postmaster general is returning to Congress to testify before a Democratic Party-led House panel.
New Zealand leader Jacinda Ardern has extended a coronavirus lockdown in the country's largest city until the end of the week and introduced mandatory mask wearing on public transport across the nation. Meanwhile, there is optimism in Australia that a deadly second wave is subsiding.
The military junta that overthrew Mali's president wants to put off new elections for three years, an official said Monday, as the international community pressed for an immediate return to civilian rule.
Americana singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle, the son of musician Steve Earle, has died at age 38, according to an announcement posted on his Facebook page and his record label, New West Records
Protests erupted in the U.S. state of Wisconsin following a police shooting of a reportedly unarmed Black man, forcing officials to impose a curfew in the city of Kenosha.
The GOP convention, which follows the nomination of Joe Biden last week as the Democratic presidential candidate, is expected to include casualties of 'cancel culture' among its speakers and position Trump as the only leader able to confront the violence that has rocked some major U.S. cities.
The 2020 Republican National Convention gets underway Monday in Charlotte, North Carolina. Unlike the Democratic National Convention, which was entirely virtual, a modified in-person gathering will happen over four days in Charlotte, with fewer delegates and staff.
