Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen was forced into a draw Monday by more than 143,000 people worldwide playing against him in a single, record-setting game ...

Denzel Washington sandwiched a whirlwind trip to the Cannes Film Festival in between Broadway performances for the premiere of Spike Lee’s “Highest 2 Lowest” and was rewarded with a surprise honorary ...

The United States has sent 68 immigrants from Honduras and Colombia back to their countries in the first government-funded ...

The Senate has confirmed real estate developer Charles Kushner, the father of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, to serve as ambassador to France ...

Australia’s central bank has reduced its benchmark interest by a quarter percentage point for a second time this year to 3.85 ...

Mississippi’s request for federal disaster assistance is pending more than two months after 18 tornados ripped through the ...

Taiwan media say a car plowed through pedestrians at an intersection in New Taipei, killing three people including two 12-year-old girls ...

The parents of Edan Alexander, an Israeli-American soldier who was held captive in Gaza for 19 months, are overjoyed he is home and slowly absorbing their son's life in captivity ...

Syria's capital, Damascus, is suffering from its worst water shortages in years as a result of the lowest rainfall in more ...

In Detroit, advocates of increasing play among Black young people have partnered with some of the city's largest businesses and community organizations. At least two nonprofits offer programs that ...

The Taiwanese president says trade tensions between the United States and Taiwan are just “frictions between friends.” ...

A man in Florida has been arrested for shooting his neighbor’s cow five times after it wandered onto his property, police said.