A new Biden administration rule announced Thursday aims to speed up asylum processing at the southern border for a limited group of people believed to have committed serious crimes or who have terrorist links and ultimately more quickly eject them from the country.
Two environmental activists attacked a glass case containing an original copy of the Magna Carta at the British Library on Friday, causing minor damage to the reinforced box but leaving the historic document unscathed.
A newly released ad promoting Apple's new iPad Pro has struck quite a nerve online.
A campaign video for South Africa's opposition party showing the country's flag in flames has stoked tensions just weeks ahead of national elections that are seen as the most pivotal since the end of the apartheid system of racial segregation 30 years ago.
Israeli troops uncovered several underground shafts in eastern Rafah where they killed Hamas terrorists in close-quarters combat.
Contractors curious about an extension cord on the roof of a Michigan grocery store made a startling discovery: A 34-year-old woman was living inside the business sign, with enough space for a computer, printer and coffee maker, police said.
Hope was fading Friday for dozens of construction workers buried for days in the rubble of a building that collapsed in South Africa as the death toll rose to 12 and more than 40 remained missing.
Hundreds of volunteers have set up a makeshift dog shelter in an abandoned, roofless warehouse in the city of Canoas, one of the hardest hit by floods in southern Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state.
U.S. stocks are heading toward the close of another winning week with some more modest gains on Friday.
A bus veered off a bridge in St. Petersburg, Russia's second-largest city, killing at least three people and leaving six others injured on Friday, officials said.
A top Philippine security official demanded Friday the immediate expulsion of Chinese diplomats allegedly behind a reported leak of a phone conversation between one of the diplomats and a Filipino admiral about South China Sea disputes that have strained diplomatic ties.
A new generation can learn how to paint happy trees and to make happy accidents with a TV series teaching the Bob Ross -method of painting using some of the prolific artist's work that have never been seen before.
New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan is forbidding photographs of former President Donald Trump in his trial because a pool journalist took a picture from the aisle instead of the front of the courtroom, as required, according to court officers.
Israel is fighting an existential war against Hamas Islamists, an enemy so imbued with hatred for Jews that it has pledged to continue the fight to terminate Israel and the Jewish people globally, irrespective of defeat in this battle ("Biden's weapons curb sparks Israeli defiance, GOP's impeachment push," Web, May 9).
Border Patrol agents were miffed when they saw an ambulance roll up to a Texas highway checkpoint in August 2022 and discovered an illegal immigrant being smuggled inside.
When asked about spreading disinformation concerning a political opponent, the late Democratic House Speaker Harry Reid famously replied, "It worked, didn't it?"
Joseph Curl's "Pathological liar Noem proves she's ready to be vice president" (Web, May 8) reveals South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem's propensity to avoid answering questions about her controversial personal behavior.
The fourth film in the latest reboot of the "Planet of the Apes" franchise delivers exactly what you'd expect with regard to its story. And Netflix's "Mother of the Bride" is one wedding invitation I'll have to decline.
China is actively seeking foreign investment to boost its slowing growth, but that very sluggishness is weighing on company plans to expand their businesses in the world's second largest economy, an annual survey of more than 500 European companies found.
Heavy fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants on the outskirts of the southern Gaza city of Rafah has left crucial nearby aid crossings inaccessible and caused over 100,000 people to flee north, a United Nations official said Friday.
India's Supreme Court on Friday granted interim bail to a top opposition leader who was arrested nearly seven weeks ago in a bribery case that opposition parties called a political move by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government against his rivals during a national election.
Dangerous storms crashed over parts of the South on Thursday even as the region cleaned up from earlier severe weather that spawned tornadoes, killed at least three people, and gravely injured a boy who was swept into a storm drain as he played in a flooded street.
About 110,000 people have fled Rafah in southern Gaza, and food and fuel supplies in the area are critically low, a U.N. official says.
Eden Golan is in Sweden for the Eurovision Song Contest, but she is not seeing much of the country.
Police early Friday have begun dismantling a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.