The Republicans’ defeat in the U.S. midterm elections was watched closely in Russia, where some observers are predicting it could herald more support for Ukraine when the Democrats take over Congress in January.

From Hungary to Brazil, voters have ousted nationalist leaders or blocked far-right challengers.

President Donald Trump says the U.S. military has carried out new limited strikes on Iran, targeting air defense systems.

Ben Shelton has won an all-American match against Tommy Paul to reach the Paris Masters semifinals for the first time.

Thomas Markle, the 82-year-old father of Prince Harry’s wife Meghan, has been arrested by federal agents in Florida and charged with possessing child sexual abuse material in California.

President Donald Trump has discussed efforts to de-escalate tensions in the Middle East during a call with Qatar’s emir.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his government is seeking specific security guarantees from Western allies for postwar support.

Federal prosecutors have charged a son of Ecuador’s former president, a former member of Ecuador’s legislature and three other Ecuadorians with trafficking tons of cocaine to the United States and Europe in part by hiding it in containers carrying tuna.

President Donald Trump's plan to import Russian diesel is facing setbacks.

A Mexican judge is accused of accepting a $2 million bribe in exchange for releasing a suspected Canadian drug trafficker from custody.

Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed has become the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Senate — a significant milestone for Muslim Americans.

JetBlue has raised its checked baggage fees for the second time this year.

Iran’s leaders say U.S. President Donald Trump shouldn’t ignore the stinging setback in the U.S. midterm elections.

Leaders in Europe and elsewhere have expressed relief that U.S. midterm election results could signal a shift away from President Donald Trump's "America first" policies.

Iranian officials celebrated the rejection of the Republican Party and President Donald Trump by voters in the U.S. midterm elections.

This midterm election will be remembered not just for the stunning number of losses Democrats handed to President Donald Trump and Republicans but for a wave of historic firsts across the country.

President Donald Trump says the U.S. will stop providing $4 billion in aid each year to Israel in 2027 but will keep selling arms to its closest Middle East ally.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday that Russia will not be allowed to play at the upcoming world junior hockey tournament, adding to a growing boycott by the world’s hockey powers ahead of the men’s tournament next year in Germany.

Iran’s chief negotiator says it's up to the United States to prevent renewed war after Tehran's “firm and rational response.”.

Many in the Middle East remain on edge after the United States carried out limited strikes on Iranian targets just hours before Tuesday’s midterm elections in the U.S. The strikes in the Strait of Hormuz are raising more questions about what’s coming next.

A U.S. official says the United States conducted defensive strikes on some Iranian targets in the Strait of Hormuz.

US has conducted defensive strikes on some Iranian targets in the Strait of Hormuz, US official says.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says he had a constructive conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump about a potential trade deal.

Sheila Chepkirui of Kenya won the women’s race of the New York City Marathon for the second time in three years while Andreas Almgren of Sweden was victorious in his debut in the distance.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the Trump administration did not help Flávio Bolsonaro leave Brazil after his election defeat.

Venus Williams has lost in her first WTA Tour semifinal in eight years.

Russia has vetoed a U.S.-drafted resolution that would have supported Morocco’s demand for sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara.

The U.S. Department of Justice is pushing for a court order to isolate certain Alaska ballots to investigate potential voter confusion, while federal officials confirmed the existence of a criminal probe over a Senate candidate who shares a name with the Republican incumbent.

Cuba has welcomed home a diplomat expelled by the United States after a heated confrontation at the United Nations this week.

Leo XIV has become the first pope to vote in a U.S. general election, casting a mail-in ballot in Chicago.

ExxonMobil and Chevron both reported better than expected quarterly results Friday as the oil majors benefited from higher prices and record production.

The sell-off for tech stocks on Wall Street got even worse on worries that the frenzy around AI sent prices too high.

Frances Tiafoe may still be waiting for his first Grand Slam championship, but the American tennis star has already celebrated a meaningful career milestone.

The U.S. military is denying that Iran captured an American drone near the Strait of Hormuz.

From furniture we no longer use to boxes we haven’t opened in years, millions of us are paying monthly rent for possessions we no longer have room for in our everyday lives.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and the European Union’s top official pushed to make Canada the bloc’s first “associate member” and build a broader alliance open to other countries, warning that foreign economic pressure threatens their sovereignty as U.S. President Donald Trump wages a trade war against traditional allies.

The United States and Japan have agreed to establish a Japanese facility for the joint production of advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles, the Japanese defense chief said.

U.S. officials have warned Middle East allies to prepare for potential renewed military action against Iran after the U.S. midterm elections.

Officials say that a six-day ceasefire in the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky in southern Ukraine has held for its first day and night.

The head of the U.N. nuclear agency says there's been no indication Iran has tried to repair or reconstruct its nuclear facilities damaged in U.S. and Israeli military strikes this year or last year.

The U.S. military says it has attacked a boat it accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

Tennis great Venus Williams has fallen to 0-13 in singles matches this year at age 46.

Stockyards in New Mexico that had closed due to the New World screwworm outbreak are bustling again.

Nobel laureate María Corina Machado has reappeared in Venezuela for the first time since December.

Iran says messages are still being passed to the U.S. through intermediaries, keeping the door open for diplomacy amid rising war concerns.

With the two leading AI powers, the United States and China, forming their own AI blocs, other countries are maneuvering to harness the strengths of both groupings without alienating either and risking losing out.

Ukraine and Russia have signaled willingness to resume peace talks and back a humanitarian mission led by U.S. First lady Melania Trump, but deep disagreements over territory and security guarantees underscore obstacles to ending the war.

Robin Rue Simmons has been working to address the legacy of slavery in the United States.

American Skye Blakely has soared to the women's all-around gold at the world gymnastics championships.

The Kremlin says that a first tanker carrying Russian diesel to the United States has set sail under a new import agreement.

Most of the immigrants targeted by federal authorities in California this week for alleged voter fraud had applied for U.S. citizenship and now face charges related to lying on forms or during interviews.

The deaths of two CIA agents in April after a drug lab operation in northern Mexico have led to treason charges against a former Chihuahua state attorney general.

Argentina has designated five Latin American criminal and guerrilla groups, including Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, as terrorist organizations.

The International Criminal Court and its embattled staff have won the European Union’s top human rights honor.

Iran's government says seven oil tankers have caught fire or been damaged in the strategic Strait of Hormuz.

A storm that forecasters describe as a “powerful extratropical low” with tropical storm-force winds is offshore in the Atlantic.

The latest shudder for AI stocks pulled markets lower around the world.

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar says she will move out of her Washington, D.C., home that federal agents searched last week.

At 500 PM AST (2100 UTC), the center of Post-Tropical Cyclone Josephine was located near latitude 40.0 North, longitude 65.8 West. The post-tropical cyclone is moving toward the northeast near 17 mph...

Federal prosecutors announced they have broken up a fraudulent marriage ring in Massachusetts that conducted dozens of bogus ceremonies with immigrants over the past decade and netted participant millions of dollars.

Russia has released an American who was jailed for over four years on charges of fighting as a mercenary in Ukraine.

Cool mornings continue across Central Florida before stronger northeast winds bring more showers and worsening beach and boating conditions this weekend.

Beijing has expressed strong opposition to U.S. sanctions on five Chinese companies linked to a former Google engineer accused of intellectual property theft.

Gambian authorities have received funds from the sale of a U.S. property owned by former ruler Yahya Jammeh.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has held talks with India's foreign minister in Mumbai.

China has criticized a U.S. ban on AI startup DeepSeek for federal civilian agencies and is warning of possible retaliatory measures, highlighting tensions in the tech race between the two countries.

The United States and Cuba have clashed at the United Nations as the Trump administration sought once again to build opposition for an upcoming annual vote condemning Washington's decades-long economic embargo against Havana.

Cuban authorities report that men captured in February after attempting to enter Cuba by force from the United States have confessed and cooperated with investigators.

Federal prosecutors say a former OpenAI engineer secretly installed a recording device in a conference room to gather company details.

More than 100,000 people from Ukraine and Sudan can stay in the U.S. without fear of deportation.

Many American scientists are being recruited by foreign universities holding out offers of stable funding and academic freedom.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in Uzbekistan promoting trade and ties with Central Asia.

Jewish Americans feel they have a lot at stake in the upcoming elections in Israel as three years of Mideast conflicts rile up emotions across the United States, from street protests to the midterm races.

The latest straw poll in the selection of the next U.N. secretary-general has shown that none of the seven candidates has the support of all five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, who have veto power.

It’s an icon, the small white receptacle made from a single piece of cardboard folded into a trapezoid-shaped box.

China plans to restrict or ban exports of 40 technologies, including AI, chips, and solar power, as its tech race with countries like the U.S. intensifies.

A trial is set for the suspected organizer of a deadly al-Qaida attack on a U.S. warship in the year 2000.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the U.S. winter will likely be wetter and warmer, but not necessarily snowier, due to El Niño.

Ukraine attacked a Russian oil refinery, abandoning a brief truce involving energy-related targets that it said Moscow did not heed.

U.S. stock indexes muscled higher following a shaky day of trading.

The Justice Department is threatening California with possible legal action over what it says are noncitizens believed to have received mail ballots for next month’s midterm elections.

Taiwan is planning to buy liquefied natural gas from a U.S. project once extraction starts and could invest up to $4.4 billion in it.

Iran says a cargo ship has sunk after hitting a naval mine in the Strait of Hormuz with few immediate details.

Cyberattacks have disrupted European supermarket chains, causing refrigeration systems to overheat at hundreds of stores in France.

Ukraine received no early warning from its partners about five Russian ballistic missiles that hit civilian infrastructure in the capital of Kyiv.

The deal that President Donald Trump reached with Russian President Vladimir Putin to import tons of Russian diesel is drawing concern from Congress.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia is still striking Ukraine's energy facilities despite U.S. President Donald Trump's claim of an energy ceasefire.

A senior Iranian official says Tehran finds the latest U_S_ response to a proposal to end the war “insufficient."

President Donald Trump shows no signs of budging from a trade policy that many Americans don't like as the midterm elections loom.

President Donald Trump's tariffs are turning factory workers against his Republican Party over fears the import taxes could lead to fewer jobs instead of the manufacturing renaissance he promised.

In Havana, Laura Mendoza runs a project called “Medicine Is Not for Sale,” providing free medications to Cubans facing severe shortages.

Patri Guijarro and Eva Navarro scored in the first 14 minutes and Adriana Nanclares stopped a second-half penalty kick to lift Spain to a 2-0 victory over the United States in a clash between the two top-ranked teams in women’s international soccer.

Saudi Arabia says an attack on the Riyadh airport has killed 12 people and wounded over 300 others.

The Trump administration has cut Medicaid coverage for hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants, including refugees and trafficking victims.

The United Nations’ human rights office has condemned the racist abuse of tennis player Coco Gauff and called for solidarity to help push back against racism and sexism.

President Donald Trump and Iranian officials seem to agree on one thing about their seven-month-old war.

A new pact that calls for Russia to boost the U.S. supply of diesel over the next few months is unlikely to make a dent in painfully high prices at the pump or elsewhere, energy policy experts say.

The Trump administration has imposed sweeping new sanctions on the International Criminal Court as part of its campaign to dismantle the tribunal that the U.S. believes has become politicized and attempted to unfairly and illegally prosecute Americans and Israelis on war crimes charges.

The U.S. stock market finished its record-setting week with gains, even as other financial markets remained indecisive.

The FBI has seized scanning and phishing tools used by a group of hackers that officials say is associated with the Chinese government and that is responsible for disruptive cyber operations in the United States and abroad, including against the power industry, academia and critical infrastructure.