U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr on Wednesday said the Justice Department was monitoring the 'Antifa' protest movement, saying that it is at the heart of violence in cities across the country.
A Black man who had run naked through the streets of a western New York city died of asphyxiation after a group of police officers put a hood over his head, then pressed his face into the pavement for two minutes, according to video and records released Wednesday by the man's family.
Crews are working to restore electricity and clear debris in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura, which killed 21 people and left hundreds of thousands without power and access to safe water.
At least two pilots say they flew past a person on a jetpack about 900 metres up, while on final approach into Los Angeles.
Tropical Storm Nana is barrelling westward just off the coast of Honduras on a collision course with the tiny nation of Belize.
Six months after detangling their work lives from the Royal Family, Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, have signed a multi-year deal to produce nature series, documentaries and children's programming for Netflix.
Greek authorities have prevented thousands of migrants from entering Greece clandestinely by sea this year despite a recent lack of co-operation from the Turkish coast guard, the country's shipping minister said Wednesday.
The number of elephants dying in western Zimbabwe from a suspected bacterial infection, possibly from eating poisonous plants, has risen to 22, and "more deaths are expected," a spokesperson for the country's parks agency said Wednesday.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the same type of Soviet-era nerve agent that British authorities identified in a 2018 attack on a former Russian spy, the German government said Wednesday, citing new test results.
Tima Kurdi is in Germany on the fifth anniversary of her nephew Alan's death to help launch a new campaign for rescue organization Sea-Eye, which is planning to buy a boat to be named after Alan's brother Ghalib — who also drowned in the Mediterranean Sea on Sept. 2, 2015.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday issued a sweeping nationwide order temporarily preventing millions of U.S. renters from being evicted, in a bid to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Here's a look at what's happening with the coronavirus around the world.
Residents of an Alaska village lined a remote runway with cars, trucks and all-terrain vehicles to provide enough light for a medical transport plane to evacuate a child.
Pope Francis held his weekly general audience in public for the first time in six months on Wednesday, smiling and chatting as he re-emerged from the constraints of the coronavirus lockdown.
A working group in the U.S. capital recommends renaming, removing or recontextualizing monuments, including the giant obelisk dedicated to the city's namesake. President Donald Trump is already using it as a campaign issue.
Four people arrested for curfew violations while protesting the shooting of a Black man by a white policeman in Kenosha, Wis. sued the city and county governments on Tuesday, claiming they were denied free speech rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
