U.S. & World

Japan has ramped up its push for companies to adopt a four-day workweek, but those efforts face steep challenges in a country famous for its workaholic culture.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has visited the Pennsylvania ammunition factory that is producing one of the most critically needed munitions for his country’s fight to fend off Russian ground forces.

The French government has sent a special anti-riot police unit that’s been banned for 65 years to the French Caribbean island of Martinique.

A top Donald Trump ally is pressuring Nebraska Republicans to award all of their state’s Electoral College votes to the statewide winner, a late-stage rule change that could potentially help return Trump to the White House.

Congressional Democrats and Republicans have eight days to strike a funding deal before the government goes into a partial shutdown.

If he is re-elected, though, he didn’t rule out the possibility of appointing former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, tech billionaire Elon Musk or Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to his Cabinet.

Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won Sri Lanka’s presidential election as voters rejected the old political guard that has been widely accused of pushing the nation toward economic ruin.

A purported sighting of a rat wouldn’t get much attention in many places around the world. But it caused a stir earlier this year on Alaska’s St. Paul Island.

Vice President Kamala Harris is a Baptist who was influenced by religious traditions in her mother’s home country of India. Former President Donald Trump grew up a mainline Presbyterian but began identifying as a nondenominational Christian near the end of his presidency. Despite that, few Americans see the presidential candidates as particularly C...

This is no bull: First responders in a Massachusetts city had to exercise some impromptu roundup skills when eight bulls escaped from a rodeo being held in the parking lot of a mall in North Attleboro on Sunday.

Kate, the Princess of Wales, has made her first public appearance since she announced she had completed chemotherapy and would return to some public duties. Kate and her husband Prince William were seen Sunday attending church with King Charles III and Queen Camilla in Scotland. Kate announced on Sept. 9 that she had completed treatment six months ...

The rhino population across the world has increased slightly but so have the killings, mostly in South Africa, as poaching fed by huge demand for rhino horns remains a top threat.

Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks, who is also running in the Senate race, allegedly took advantage of tax breaks she didn’t qualify for on properties in Maryland and D.C., according to a CNN review. The CNN review reportedly showed that a homestead tax exemption that Alsobrooks claimed for more than a decade is meant t...