There are early indications a Russian air defense system may have hit the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan, a U.S. official says. Some of the speculation focuses on damage to the ...

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Exclusive reporting reveals how the United States lost track of a virus that could cause the next pandemic. Problems like the ...

In our news wrap Thursday, five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a TV broadcast van, Israel escalated attacks on Houthi rebels in Yemen, authorities in Finland detained a ship with ...

Now that the Assad regime in Syria has fallen, the full scale of that government’s production and distribution of illicit drugs is coming to light. Leila Molana-Allen reports from the drug factories ...

Most college students are on their winter break gathering with family and friends. But some from outside the United States ...

Syria's new security forces checked IDs and searched cars in the central city of Homs on Thursday, a day after protests by ...

One of the biggest names in women’s boxing, Claressa Shields, is getting the Hollywood treatment in a new biopic. Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown discussed "The Fire Inside" with Shields and ...

Since the 1980s, temperatures in the Arctic have risen at nearly triple the global rate. This past summer was the wettest on record, while a heatwave in August set records in northern Alaska and ...

Israel’s attorney general has ordered police to open an investigation into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife on ...

Many people who took part in a series of studies overestimated the negative consequences of sending a late gift.

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