TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump pulled back on his threats to launch devastating strikes on Iran late Tuesday, swerving to deescalate the war less than two hours before the deadline he...

BAGHDAD (AP) — American journalist Shelly Kittleson, who was kidnapped from a Baghdad streetcorner last week, was released Tuesday, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. The development came after the powerf...

Nearly 2 million soldiers have been killed, wounded or gone missing during the conflict. By The Associated Press When Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine surpassed 1,418 days last month, it offici...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration announced Tuesday it was expanding travel restrictions to an additional 20 countries and the Palestinian Authority, doubling the number of nations affected b...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday he will sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia despite some concern within the administration that such a sale could lead to China gaining access t...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An ensemble of 374 bagpipers has claimed a new world record by playing AC/DC’s “It’s a Long Way to the Top.” The event, called “The Great Melbourne Bagpipe Bash,” took plac...

President Trump took a rhetorical victory lap in front of the Israeli parliament Monday. Ignoring his patented departures from the teleprompter, which violated all sorts of valuable norms, it was a sp...

NEW YORK (AP) — For months, bubbling trade tensions between China and the U.S. seemed to calm to a simmer, with words like “thaw” and “truce” swapped in for warnings of economic “war.” Now, hostilitie...

WADI GAZA, Gaza Strip (AP) — Tens of thousands of Palestinians headed back to the heavily destroyed northern Gaza Strip on Friday as a U.S.-brokered ceasefire came into effect in a deal that raised ho...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Rival gunmen shot at each other in a crowded downtown nightlife district in Alabama’s capital city Saturday night, killing two people and injuring 12 others in a chaotic street...

He examined the concept of “pro-life” by balancing abortion with the death penalty. ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church b...

NEW YORK (AP) — Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa met Monday with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in New York, expanding relations with the West and further easing his country’s isolation as he bec...

The Russian leader won’t meet with Volodymyr Zelenskyy until some of his demands are met. WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump started the week declaring a diplomatic breakthrough in his bid ...

The agreement eases tensions between the world’s largest economies. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump extended a trade truce with China for another 90 days Monday, at least delaying once again ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — In his very first sermon as pontiff, Pope Leo XIV told the cardinals who elected him that anyone who exercises authority in the Catholic Church must “make oneself small,” so that o...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Israel has agreed on terms for a 60day ceasefire in Gaza and warned Hamas to accept the deal before conditions worsen. Trump announced the de...

WASHINGTON (AP) — CIA Director John Ratcliffe told skeptical U.S. lawmakers that American military strikes destroyed Iran’s lone metal conversion facility and in the process delivered a monumental set...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Just over a month after Pope Leo XIV became the first U.S.-born pontiff in the history of the Catholic Church, a new poll shows that American Catholics are feeling excited about thei...

Robert Prevost is a member of the Augustinian order and spent most of his career in Peru. VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making C...

Cardinals will get to know one another before starting the election process. VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic cardinals on Monday set May 7 as the start date for the conclave to elect Pope Francis’ succes...