U.S. President Joe Biden will use his first joint address to Congress on Wednesday night to declare the nation is "turning peril into possibility, crisis into opportunity."
The U.S. Justice Department announced federal hate crime charges Wednesday in the death of the Georgia man who was killed while out for a run last year.
The mayor of Columbus, Ohio, sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice Wednesday asking for an investigation into the city's police department following several police killings of Black people, including the fatal shooting of 16-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant last week.
Russian and Chinese media are systematically seeking to sow mistrust in Western COVID-19 vaccines in their latest disinformation campaigns aimed at dividing the West, a European Union report said Wednesday.
A new study is using millions of satellite images to generate a clearer picture of the fate of the world's glaciers than ever before.
Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, the so-called "forgotten astronaut" from the historic 1969 moon landing, has died.
U.S. federal investigators have executed a search warrant at the Manhattan home of former U.S. president Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
The leader of Northern Ireland announced her resignation on Wednesday after party members mounted a push to oust her over her handling of the fallout from Brexit and other issues.
China plans to launch the core module for its first permanent space station this week, in the latest step forward for the country's space exploration program.
Pop star Britney Spears will personally address the Los Angeles court dealing with her long-running conservatorship in June, a judge agreed on Tuesday.
Olympic athletes will be given daily tests for the coronavirus during their time in Tokyo for the delayed 2020 Games, organizers said on Wednesday.
Britain's Electoral Commission has opened an investigation into the financing of the refurbishment of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's apartment, saying there were grounds to suspect an offence may have been committed.
People in Nova Scotia are facing new rules Wednesday after officials imposed a provincewide lockdown for at least two weeks to deal with an uptick in COVID-19 cases.
India crossed a grim milestone Wednesday of more than 200,000 people lost to the coronavirus as a surge of new infections devastated dense cities and rural areas alike and overwhelmed health-care systems on the brink of collapse.
It's been 100 days of quietude for a nation whose volatile politics has lately seemed to be on the perpetual edge of internal combustion. Joe Biden is googled less, discussed less and tweets less than his predecessor, Donald Trump. But he's already passed a more expensive bill than FDR.
