A man was detained Thursday night after he aimed a handgun at point-blank range toward Argentina's politically powerful Vice-President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, and President Alberto Fernandez said the assassination attempt failed because the gun did not fire.
U.S. President Joe Biden warned Thursday night that "equality and democracy are under assault" in the U.S. He sounded an alarm about his predecessor, Donald Trump, and "MAGA Republican" adherents, labelling those who support Trump's Make America Great Again agenda an extremist threat to the nation and its future.
The United States on Thursday welcomed a United Nations report that said China may have committed crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, saying it deepened Washington's concerns about what it calls a genocide there against Uyghurs and other ethnic groups.
Thomas Webster, a retired New York Police Department officer, was sentenced on Thursday to 10 years in prison for attacking the U.S. Capitol and using a metal flagpole to assault a police officer trying to hold off a mob of Donald Trump supporters.
Pakistani health officials on Thursday reported an outbreak of water-borne diseases in areas hit by recent record-breaking flooding, as authorities stepped up efforts to ensure the provision of clean drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people who lost their homes in the disaster.
A U.S. House committee seeking financial records from former President Donald Trump has reached an agreement that ends litigation on the matter and requires an accounting firm to turn over some of the material, the panel's leader announced Thursday.
Russia and Ukraine accused each other of waging attacks Thursday near Europe's largest nuclear power plant just as a team of UN inspectors was heading to visit it despite the fighting.
Mining the moon might sound like a concept that belongs in a science fiction novel, but it's likely to be a part of reality in the not-so-distant future. That's made it a hot topic of discussion among space lawyers — yes, there are space lawyers — on Earth.
