The U.N. human rights chief has expressed concern about a “fundamental shift in direction” taking place in the United States when it comes to human rights. Volker Türk, the U.N. high ...

President Donald Trump arrives this week on Capitol Hill to deliver a speech to Congress, a coequal branch of government he has bulldozed past this first month in office, ...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday night will deliver the first joint congressional address of his second presidency. It’s not ...

Donald Trump loves a good spectacle, and it’s hard to top a speech to a joint session of Congress. The House chamber is ...

More than a decade after the bat flip became ubiquitous following a big homer in Major League Baseball, Colorado Rockies ...

Christian Stocker was sworn in as Austrian chancellor on Monday as a new government, a three-party coalition, took office ...

China’s annual major political event gets underway this week, bringing together the nation’s top leaders and thousands of provincial leaders to endorse decisions already made by the ...

Ex-FIFA president Sepp Blatter arrived at a Swiss court Monday for his fresh trial on fraud, forgery and misappropriation ...

Pope Francis had a good night’s rest early Monday after apparently overcoming a setback in his recovery from pneumonia: He is ...

A former Iranian foreign minister who was key to the country’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers reportedly tendered his ...

A brutal season for the Phoenix Suns hit a low Sunday night with a humiliating 116-98 home loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves. “We didn’t play up to our standards at all,” ...

I’m Still Here,” a film about a family torn apart by the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil for more than two decades, gave Brazil its first Oscar win on Sunday in the ...