A year after being lauded for its plan to replace thousands of aging, gas-powered mail trucks with a mostly electric fleet, ...

Rose Hammond pushed authorities for years to lower the 55-mph speed limit on a two-lane road that passes her assisted-living ...

Beneath red banners and a gold bust of revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi’s central party school, Communist Party ...

John-Paul Sager appreciates the care he has received at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics, but he thinks ...

Akie Iwai joined twin sister Chisato as a rookie LPGA Tour winner Sunday at Columbia Edgewater, closing with a 6-under 66 for a four-stroke victory in The Standard Portland Class ...

Rescuers recovered dozens more bodies from the rubble of collapsed homes in a northwestern district of Pakistan, bringing the death toll to at least 274, as authorities defended thei ...

A club shooting in the New York City borough of Brooklyn early Sunday left three people dead and nine others wounded in a year of record-low gun violence in the city.

Spain is deploying a further 500 soldiers to battle wildfires that have torn through parched woodland during a prolonged spell of scorching weather, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez sai ...

The left sees President Donald Trump’s attempted takeover of Washington law enforcement as part of a multifront march to autocracy — “vindictive authoritarian rule,” as one activist put i ...

It’s not just Donald Trump’s mantra anymore. As the Republican president pushes states to redraw their congressional districts to the GOP’s advantage, Democrats have shown they are willing to go ...

A lot has happened in just a year on both sides of the Lebanon-Syria border. A lightning offensive by Islamist insurgents in Syria toppled longtime autocrat Bashar Assad and brought a new gov ...

Hurricane Erin weakened to a Category 3 hurricane on Sunday, its outer bands lashing the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, as forecasters warned the storm was rapidly growing in ...