Major League Baseball plunged into its first work stoppage in a quarter-century when the sport's collective bargaining agreement expired Wednesday night and owners immediately locked out players in a move that threatens spring training and opening day.
The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection voted Wednesday to pursue contempt charges against Jeffrey Clark, a former U.S. Justice Department official who refused to answer the committee's questions, even as the committee has agreed to let him come back for another try.
One of the most important legal cases in modern U.S. history was heard by the country's Supreme Court on Wednesday. It involves abortion and could upend decades of precedent. Here are five takeaways.
Stacey Abrams, the Georgia Democrat and leading voting rights activist, said Wednesday that she will launch another campaign to become the nation's first Black woman governor.
A 15-year-old boy was charged Wednesday with murder, terrorism and other counts for a shooting that killed four fellow students and injured others at Michigan's Oxford High School.
The Women's Tennis Association says it is suspending tournaments in China because of concerns about the safety of Peng Shuai, the Grand Slam doubles champion who dropped out of public view last month after accusing a former high-ranking Chinese government official of sexual assault.
A sperm whale with the same rare colouring as the fictional Moby Dick has been spotted off the coast of Jamaica.
A World War II bomb exploded at a construction site next to a busy railway line in Munich on Wednesday, injuring four people, one of them seriously, German authorities said.
Several families of the 10 people who died from injuries in a massive crowd surge of fans at the Astroworld Festival have turned down an offer by headliner Travis Scott to pay for their loved ones' funeral costs.
The Gucci family is not pleased with the depiction of their relatives in the new film House of Gucci. In a statement issued this week, they said the narrative is "anything but accurate" and that the filmmakers did not consult them at all.
Abortion rights are on the line at the Supreme Court in historic arguments over the landmark ruling nearly 50 years ago that declared a nationwide right to end a pregnancy, as the justices weigh whether to uphold a Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks.
Nigeria has detected its first case of the omicron coronavirus variant in a sample it collected in October, weeks before South Africa alerted the world about the variant last week, the country's national public health institute said Wednesday.
The pandemic meant quite a few changes for Ryden's Border Store, a popular shop and parcel delivery warehouse located in northern Minnesota — just across the Canada-U.S. border crossing at Pigeon River.
