ROSARIO, Argentina (AP) - Jorge Messi, the father of soccer star and Argentina captain Lionel Messi, died Saturday at a hospital in the central Argentina city of Rosario. He was 68. The Rosario-based Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys announced his death ...

Iran issued dramatic new demands around the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and the United Arab Emirates said one of its ships was targeted by an Iranian missile. Yemen's military attacked the country's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. And Turkey's Kur...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) - Jorge Messi, the father of soccer star and Argentina captain Lionel Messi, died Saturday at a hospital in the central Argentina city of Rosario. He was 68. The Rosario-based Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys announced his death...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Militants affiliated with the Islamic State group attacked a village in Congo near the border with Uganda early Saturday, killing at least 13 people and burning and looting homes, a local civil society group said. T...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general in a vote early Saturday morning, cementing President Donald Trump's former personal attorney's command of a Justice Department the Republican president has sought to bend to his w...

RICHFIELD, Utah (AP) - A helicopter helping battle a large Utah wildfire crashed Friday with no word on the conditions of the two people aboard as officials said they couldn't immediately reach the crash site. The helicopter was one of se...

The Senate on Friday confirmed Cameron Hamilton as head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, returning the former Navy SEAL to the embattled agency he led temporarily last year only to be fired after he publicly opposed eliminating it. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate overwhelmingly approved a punishing Russian sanctions package Friday, the result of a yearlong campaign by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham to reinforce U.S. support for Ukraine and try to force President Vladimir Putin's hand ...

Police released video Friday of a mass shooting that killed three people at an Idaho In-N-Out Burger, and praised an employee from a nearby store who engaged the gunman outdoors, slowing him down and possibly preventing more deaths as authorities were ...

HOUSTON (AP) - A 2-year-old girl whose parents sued a Texas hospital to prevent it from testing if she was brain-dead after she drowned in a hotel pool on Memorial Day has been removed from life support and died, her family said this week. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal appeals court on Friday ordered the Trump administration to halt construction of its $400 million ballroom at the White House because the project lacks congressional approval. President Donald Trump doesn't hav...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy said on Friday that he will back Todd Blanche's nomination as attorney general, likely paving the way for Blanche's confirmation to lead President Donald Trump's Justice Department. The Loui...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan signed a defense agreement on Friday that would treat an attack on one as an attack on all three, officials said, solidifying cooperation between the three regional powers at a time of growing sec...

NONTHABURI, Thailand (AP) - A student opened fire at a high school outside Bangkok on Friday, killing at least five people and wounding more than 20, according to authorities, who said he also appeared to have killed his two grandparents at the family ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Former Tennessee Agriculture Commissioner Charlie Hatcher defeated U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles in a Republican primary Thursday for a significantly reshaped congressional district - marking a rare rejection of a candidate endorsed by Pre...

A man charged with starting one of the wildfires in Spokane, Washington, that have destroyed hundreds of buildings planned the crime for weeks and researched when the weather would be best for igniting it, police said. Aaron Farinacci exp...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Ugandan authorities on Thursday sought and won parliamentary approval to deploy troops to Gaza as part of an international force. The successful motion, brought by the defense minister, is Uganda's first public indi...

CAIRO (AP) - Attacks by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels Thursday in central and eastern Yemen killed at least 30 government troops and wounded at least 50 others, Yemeni government officials said. A Houthi leader said Saudi-backed troops were targeted in...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A Senate committee on Thursday voted to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress and refer him to the Justice Department for potential prosecution over his refusal to answer questions at a hearing last week focused on his handl...

BUNIA, Congo (AP) - Dozens of health workers working at the epicenter of Congo's Ebola outbreak staged protests Thursday to demand payment for their wages, abandoning several health facilities even as aid workers warn that the world's fastest-growing o...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile toward the sea on Thursday, its neighbors said, resuming weapons tests days before its rivals the U.S. and South Korea begin annual military drills that North Korea views as...

BEIRUT (AP) - Two Israeli soldiers were killed in an explosion in southern Lebanon, Israel's military said Thursday, the first Israeli deaths since a shaky truce between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah began nearly two months ago. ...

TORONTO (AP) - Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday he no longer has confidence in FIFA President Gianni Infantino, adding to growing pressure on the soccer leader after his abandoned plan to sell stakes in the World Cup sparked a global backlash....

LONDON (AP) - London police said Wednesday that a woman has been arrested after four people were stabbed in Covent Garden, a bustling area in the center of the capital that is full of attractions and popular with visitors. The Metropolita...

DETROIT (AP) - Abdul El-Sayed, an insurgent former public health official who harnessed Democratic frustration with the party establishment, narrowly defeated Rep. Haley Stevens in Michigan's U.S. Senate primary, setting up a crucial test for progressi...

Abdul El-Sayed's victory in Michigan's Democratic Senate primary is the latest and perhaps most significant evidence that the party's voters are looking to turn the page on establishment-backed politicians - even in must-win battlegrounds. ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - U.S. Rep. Wesley Bell won a rematch Tuesday in a Democratic primary against former U.S. Rep. Cori Bush, and Missouri voters rejected a pair of ballot measures that could have eliminated the income tax and made it harder to pa...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia voters on Tuesday picked establishment Democrats - a prosecutor and a former congresswoman - as their nominees to take on Republican incumbents in two congressional districts the party hopes to flip in November as part of ...