Pope Leo XIV celebrated a New Year's Day Mass in St. Peter's Basilica and then delivered a special noontime prayer from his studio overlooking the piazza.

The deaths may mark the start of a heavier-handed response by Iran's theocracy over the demonstrations, which have slowed in Tehran but expanded elsewhere.

Nicolas Maduro ruled Venezuela with a heavy hand for more than 12 years, presiding over deep economic and social crises and resisting pressure from domestic opponents and foreign governments for political change.

Bank of America's Savita Subramanian expects stocks’ dividend growth will rise year over year in 2026.

The year just began, but there may be opportunities for investors to catch potential bounces on some stocks — or avoid pullbacks near-term.

The Venezuela president was first charged in 2020 with narcoterrorism and other crimes. That indictment said Maduro and others “prioritized using cocaine as a weapon against America.”

Swiss prosecutors said on Saturday they have placed under criminal investigation the two managers of a bar where a blaze on New Year's Day killed at least 40 people.

The pace of permitting in Pacific Palisades and Altadena has been slower than it was in Santa Rosa after the Tubbs fire, and faster than Paradise after the Camp fire, according to an preliminary analysis by The Times.

Up to 150,000 residents of El Fasher are missing since North Darfur capital fell to paramilitary Rapid Support Forces The Sudanese city of El Fasher resembles a “massive crime scene”, with large piles of bodies heaped throughout its streets as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) work to destroy evidence of the scale of their massacre. Six weeks after the RSF seized the city, corpses have been gathered together in scores of piles to await burial in mass graves or cremated in huge pits, analysis indicates. Continue reading...

Maze Therapeutics made CNBC's list of top performing stocks of companies based in San Francisco.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says countries and leaders need to shift their approach to climate change and focus on 'improving lives'

Israel released some 1,900 Palestinian prisoners and detainees on Monday, days after a U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas went into effect.

How Diane Keaton’s quest for beauty left an imprint on American culture

Ian Roberts rose through the ranks of American education with talent, charm and a riveting back story. He was also hiding a shocking secret.

Federal officials arrested a man they said started a small blaze in January that later rekindled and grew into the fire that devastated Pacific Palisades.

The primatologist gained scientific acclaim for her work with chimpanzees and then later used her fame to champion conservation.

The Google subsidiary is the final Big Tech company to resolve a trio of personal lawsuits that the president filed against social-media platforms.

At a Democratic fish fry in Des Moines, the former Chicago mayor hones in on economic fairness, education and fatigue with the status quo.

U.S. immigration officials on Friday arrested the superintendent of the public schools system in Des Moines, Iowa, acting on what authorities said was a prior deportation order.