DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he has called off new military strikes on Iran, hours after threatening to escalate the war by seizing control of the count...

President Donald Trump said Thursday he has called off new military strikes on Iran, hours after threatening to escalate the war. Trump had threatened major strikes on Iran and to seize control of it...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are rallying, and oil prices are falling Thursday after President Donald Trump said he called off his threat to bomb Iran in the evening, raising hopes for a deal that coul...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota man who posed as a police officer and went door-to-door in the middle of the night, killing the top Democrat in the state House and her husband and wounding a state sena...

LONDON (AP) — U.K. Defense Secretary John Healey unexpectedly quit on Thursday, saying the government is unwilling to spend enough on the military at a time of “rising threats.” The resignation dealt ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge is scheduled to consider arguments on Thursday in a challenge to the state's fledgling universal childcare program, an ambitious and closely watched effort ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — El Nino, Nature's chaotic climate agent, has formed in a warmed-up Pacific Ocean and is expected to grow to historic strength, meteorologists announced Thursday. Experts said the El ...

Iran's Kharg Island, home to a terminal through which the country exports most of its oil, has emerged as a focus of the war launched in late February by the United States and Israel. Strikes on oil i...

Several hundred thousand homes and businesses were without power Thursday after severe storms swept through the Midwest — damaging buildings and structures across a wide swath and causing more than a ...