The terror group ISIS, which refers to itself as the "Islamic State," has outlined its plans to create a functioning caliphate in a 24-page document that details its planned foreign relations, propaganda operation and structuring of an oil and gas-based economy.
A team of investigators unaffiliated with the Mexican government have released new evidence that contradicts the official story of how 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College disappeared last year in Guerrero, Mexico.
The Venezuelan opposition coalition claims to have won at least 112 seats in the country's National Assembly, which would give forces opposing President Nicolás Maduro ample powers to challenge his government.
Revelations that the couple that perpetrated last week's mass shooting in San Bernadino, California took advantage of K-1 finacé visas have prompted President Barack Obama to order the departments of State and Homeland Security to review the program under which such entry permits are issued.
Colombian researchers have located the Spanish treasure ship San José, which sank in 1708 with jewels and precious metals that today could be worth as much as $14 billion, the South American country's president, Juan Manuel Santos, announced in a statement on Saturday.
A coalition of opposition parties on Sunday triumphed in Venezuela's parliamentary election and won more than twice the number of National Assembly seats as embattled President Nicolás Maduro's ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela.
On Friday the Supreme Court agreed to listen to Puerto Rico's request to reinstate a law which might allow the U.S. territory to restructure $20 billion of their massive debt
During Bill Clinton's administration, Rafael Callejas was once an honored guest at the White House. But if U.S. prosecutors have their way, the former Honduran president may soon find himself in an American jail cell because of his suspected links to the FIFA corruption scandal.
The Colombian government and the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) continue to try to wrap up an expected peace deal that would put a definite end to South America's longest-running armed conflict.
Following a the declaration of a state of emergency in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco due to Zika fever, a virus that has been linked to mosquito bites, a ministry health official has advised women to avoid conceiving.
Former star athlete Oscar Pistorius will likely return to jail, after an appeals case resulted in a murder conviction for the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
A high-ranking Roman Catholic official on Tuesday publicly insulted the U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic, when he called the openly gay diplomat a "wife" and told him to do "housework."
