Erika Taylor’s son failed three classes in his first year of high school, to her and her husband's shock. They’d always known him to be a bright kid, adored by his teachers and deeply engaged with rea...

NEW YORK (AP) — The life and influential career of record executive Clive Davis will be honored at his funeral Monday. Davis' memorial service will be closed to the public but it will be livestreamed....

HONG KONG (AP) — A roughly 40-hour sea journey on a dinghy with a dying phone. Detention in South Korea. That’s just part of what Chinese dissident Dong Guangping endured to escape his native country....

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's president said Monday that $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets would be released by Qatar, as negotiations with the United States were challenged by attacks a...

Comcast is planning to split itself into two separate publicly traded companies by spinning off NBCUniversal and Sky. The company said Monday that its board and management team think each company wil...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Overnight ground operations and strikes by Pakistani forces killed at least 36 civilians and wounded more than 160 others, Afghan officials said Monday, as tensions between t...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike killed at least three Palestinians, including a child, in the Gaza Strip on Monday, after hitting a tent sheltering displaced people that Israel s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans have grown less proud of their country's history or the way its democracy works over the past decade, according to a new AP-NORC poll. Americans’ pride in the U.S. on seve...

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Andy Burnham, Britain’s presumptive next prime minister, will set out details on Monday to give more powers to local government as part of a plan to spread wealth and econom...