SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California voters have rejected a first-in-the-nation tax on the net worth of billionaires following a contentious ballot fight that generated huge spending by some prominent tech leaders eager to stop their taxes from going u...

Republican Ken Calvert won election Monday to the U.S. House of Representatives representing California's 40th Congressional District, defeating Republican incumbent Young Kim. The race presented a rare general election contest between two incumbents o...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump on Monday told reporters he believes the war in Iran "militarily is effectively over," suggesting that - at least for now - he's not prepared to resume the bombardment that has devastated the Islamic Republic an...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for the Trump administration to resume border wall construction in the Big Bend region of Texas, a blow to bipartisan opponents who had argued the project is a waste of money that threatens the...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. Thomas Massie moved Monday to force a vote to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, pressing his fellow Republicans to remove one of the Trump administration's most prominent figures following sweeping election losses blamed in...

PARIS (AP) - France on Monday blamed Iran for last month's massive cyberattack on supermarket fridges, summoned the Iranian ambassador and said it would seek European sanctions against those responsible for the attack. The Oct. 12 attack...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - The death toll from the capsize off Senegal of a boat carrying migrants rose to 39 following the discovery of more bodies on Monday, the country's emergency services said. The boat, which left Saint-Louis in northern...

French judo star Teddy Riner is bidding for president. The 37-year-old multiple Olympic champion announced his bid on social media and said in an interview with Le Parisien newspaper published Monday that he is positioning himself as "nei...

KRAKOW, Poland (AP) - The 24-year-old gunman who killed six people and wounded 15 others in a Polish city square died in a hospital on Monday, police said. The attacker, wearing military-style clothing and a bulletproof vest, drove into t...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) - At least 22 people died while attempting to reach Greece from North Africa over the past three days, with 13 bodies recovered from a boat south of Crete on Monday and eight found in another boat over the weekend. Mor...

HOMESTEAD AIR RESERVE BASE, Fla. (AP) - Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday that President Donald Trump launched the war against Iran even if it was not "necessarily popular" to safeguard the world from the country's nuclear ambitions. ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Pope Leo XIV delivered a diplomatic but subtly strong critique of Argentine President Javier Milei's austerity measures and libertarian agenda as he arrived Sunday in Argentina, insisting that political leaders must put p...

AL-AYYAT, Egypt (AP) - Two trains collided Sunday south of the Egyptian capital of Cairo, killing seven people and injuring at least 125, authorities said. The train's conductor was among those killed. The Health Ministry gave the casualt...

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli President Isaac Herzog formally gave opposition politician Gadi Eisenkot the first chance to form the next government Sunday evening. Complex coalition negotiations still lie ahead, but it marked a significant st...

TOKYO (AP) - A strong earthquake shook central Japan early Sunday, shattering store windows, causing people to flee buildings and leaving at least 22 people injured, according to local media. Japan's Meteorological Agency put the quake's ...

JERUSALEM (AP) - U.S. Central Command said late Saturday it disabled a St. Kitts-flagged ship after it ignored multiple warnings and attempted to leave the region after visiting an Iranian port. U.S. forces have been enforcing a naval blo...

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli President Isaac Herzog said Saturday night that he was giving opposition candidate Gadi Eisenkot the first opportunity to form a governing coalition following elections on Oct. 27. Eisenkot, a former military chie...

KRAKOW, Poland (AP) - A Polish man with far-right views drove into a busy central square in Krakow on Saturday and opened fire, killing six people and injuring 15 others before police shot and wounded him, authorities said. The attack, wh...

CAIRO (AP) - Airstrikes hit homes in a village near Yemen's capital, Sanaa, on Saturday, killing at least 25 people and wounding 30 others, mostly women and children, a spokesman for Yemen's Houthi-run Health Ministry said. Speaking to T...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - One of Haiti's most powerful gangs said Friday that it reached out to a government agency responsible for dismantling armed gangs in a push for "peace, stability and national reconciliation." The 400 Mawozo ga...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday requested to dismiss its own lawsuit that sought to stop California from counting roughly 20,000 ballots it alleged went to noncitizens until their immigration statuses could be verified. ...

Democrat Nancy Lacore won election Friday to the U.S. House of Representatives representing South Carolina's 1st Congressional District, defeating Republican Jenny Costa Honeycutt. Lacore is a former Navy vice admiral who served as chief of the Navy Re...

MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Pena formed Friday in the Pacific Ocean, well south of the Hawaiian islands. Pena had maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (72 kph) and was centered about 650 miles (1,046 kilometers) southeast of South Point, Haw...

Cornell University's Faculty Senate approved a resolution Friday declaring "no confidence" in the school's top leaders, a symbolic gesture reflecting deep discontent on campus in the wake of a former student's lawsuit saying she was gang raped at a fra...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - With more than 95% of the votes counted, New Zealand's election produced no definitive victory for the right or the left on Saturday but the incumbent conservative government hovered on the brink of a wafer-thin majority ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut said on Friday that he has been discharged from the hospital after suffering a stroke last weekend and will miss "several weeks" of votes in the Senate as he recovers in a rehabilitation fac...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) - Three weeks after lung cancer surgery, Pope Leo XIV opened a three-nation tour of Latin America on Friday by declaring he felt better than he looked and crediting God, good doctors and his healthy lifestyle with his quick rec...

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) - Pope Leo XIV said Friday that he was "proud to be an American and to exercise the right" to vote in U.S. midterm elections that gave control of Congress to the Democrats in a repudiation of U.S. President Donald Trump and ...