Venezuela is using tactics of "intimidation and aggression" in its border dispute with neighboring Guyana, the president of the small South American country charged on Tuesday in a speech at the United Nations General Assembly.
Days after Chris Brown learned that he might be refused entry into Australia on character grounds, the signer urged the country's immigration authorities to grant him a visa to "raise awareness about domestic violence."
The nation's newest multimillionaire has yet to come forward, but lottery officials revealed on Tuesday that a $310.5 million Powerball ticket was sold at a gas station in Three Rivers, Michigan.
Her refusal to follow court orders and issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples not only earned Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis six nights in jail, but also a private audience with Pope Francis.
The U.S. State Department will release another batch of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails on Wednesdays, and the 6,000 pages will likely cover the period from late 2010 to early 2011.
Russian forces intervened in Syria's civil war for the first time on Wednesday as Moscow's fighter jets struck targets near the city of Homs, U.S. government sources said.
Judging by their incessant media coverage of his presidential campaign, journalists across the nation seem to love Donald Trump. But the affection is not mutual, the Republican White House front-runner admitted over the weekend.
Homicide rates in Mexico City have spiked during the first eight months of this year, and many in the metropolitan area of some 20 million inhabitants fear that violent drug gangs are increasingly encroaching upon the capital.
Migrants from Asia are set to replace Latinos as the largest immigrant group in the United States over the next 40 years, and the nation's overall population will feel the impact of that shift, a large-scale survey of U.S. immigration trends predicts.
Pope Francis on Monday seemed to weigh in on the controversy surrounding Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis' refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, claiming that such defiance is a "human right."
The GOP could boost its appeal to black voters if it turned to a message of "hope and aspiration" instead of promises of "free stuff," White House hopeful Jeb Bush told a crowd on Thursday.
The headline speakers at a key event organized by the nation's largest gay rights group may well end up becoming rivals for the Democrats' 2016 nomination - if Joe Biden decides to launch his own White House bid, that is.
Latinos in the Catholic Church make up more than a third of the denomination's flock in the United States, and they tend to be more conservative and more closely aligned with its teachings, a new poll suggests.
The legislative body representing Germany's 16 states on Friday backed a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage, but Chancellor Angela Merkel's outspoken opposition to the effort makes it unlikely that it will become law.
"House of Cards" fans were having a Frank Underwood-worthy online battle this week over whether the fourth season of the Netflix hit was suffering from production delays.
Tuesday's "humble" $25 million Mega Millions jackpot was not quite enough to get you going? Then you're in luck this weekend: No one matched the winning numbers, which means the prize has inched up to $31 million for tonight's drawing.
Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton may refuse Chris Brown a visa, which would force the troubled R&B singer to cancel his planned tour of three concerts down under.
More than 35 tourists visiting Peru's Madre de Dios Region have been taken hostage by local leaders trying to force the central government in Lima to advance a highway project, Peruvian media reports.
The number of fingerprint records of federal employees that have fallen into the hands of hackers is far higher than originally thought, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Department of Defense said.
The Obama administration has been looking into methods to bypass encrypted communications in order to defeat an approach recommended by NSA leaker Edward Snowden and others to protect the privacy of smartphone messages.
The 50-year conflict between the Colombian government and the country's leftist guerrillas may be coming to an end, as President Juan Manuel Santos and the leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) announced a breakthrough on Thursday in Havana.
