Federal District Court Judge Catherine Eagles overruled a spate of North Carolina laws that added new requirements to the ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has won a third term, but voters drastically clipped his wings by handing his alliance a narrower margin than predicted.

Ippei Mizuhara, who worked alongside Ohtani for years, pleaded guilty to two counts related to the theft of nearly $17 million from the baseball star. He could face up to 33 years in prison.

Almost exactly two years after thousands of beagles were rescued from unsafe conditions at a breeding facility in Virginia, ...

The psychedelic drug MDMA, which has been studied as a possible mental health treatment, may finally get a chance to enter ...

A classroom in a bombed-out school has become a shelter for an extended family of 20 Palestinians. They fled Rafah after Israel's latest offensive in the southern Gaza city.

During the most recent legislative session in 13 states (including Iowa), lawmakers introduced bills that could give some of the same rights to embryos and fetuses that generally protect a person, ...

The companies behind the now-closed Virginia facility pleaded guilty to violating the Animal Welfare Act and Clean Water Act. Animal rights groups applaud the development and say there's more to do.

Songwriter and producer Terius “The-Dream” Gesteelde-Diamant – a longtime hitmaker and collaborator of artists including Beyoncé and Rihanna – was accused Tuesday of rape, physical assault, and ...

State lawmakers want to require North Carolina's public universities to play against each other in sports more often. Under a bill that passed its first House committee on Tuesday, UNC-Chapel Hill and ...

It was called a miracle pregnancy, a rare case of parthenogenesis. But Charlotte, a round stingray who caused a big stir when her aquarium in Hendersonville, N.C., announced she had become pregnant ...

President Joe Biden on Tuesday took executive action to temporarily suspend the processing of most asylum claims at the southern U.S. border when the seven-day average of unauthorized crossings ...