The nations promised to accelerate efforts to address climate change ahead of a major U.N. meeting on the issue, making plans to cut emissions of methane and other greenhouse gases besides CO2.

The House passed a two-tier spending bill on a dramatic day of Republican infighting. Americans are split over whether Israel's response to Hamas is "too much" or "about right," a new poll finds.

More Americans see China as a major threat, and that is leading campaigns, especially Republican ones, to use them in their advertising. It's even popping up in places like the Montana Senate race.

Hisako Hasegawa lived for decades in a New York City hotel, and was a mystery to those around her. And all through the years, she would return small favors with extreme kindness.

Big public transit systems are warning of deep service cuts as they struggle to make up lost revenue from fewer riders. But in some places, ridership is growing as systems adapt to the new normal.

This year the Latin Grammys will be held outside the U.S., in Seville, Spain. The location raises larger questions about how the awards perpetuate inequalities related to race, class and colonialism.

A doctor would later tell Thea Rhiannon she would have probably bled to death if not for the actions of a stranger.

A charter bus filled with high school students was rear-ended by a semi-truck on an Ohio highway Tuesday morning, in a five-vehicle crash that left six people dead and 18 injured, officials said.

A congressional hearing devolved into an angry confrontation between Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin and Sean O'Brien, the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

Congress is moving forward with a spending bill approach that could lead to rolling shutdown deadlines next year.

In a posting on social media, the Israel Defense Forces said it was launching "a precise and targeted operation against Hamas in a specified area" of the hospital complex.

The House voted overwhelmingly to approve a GOP-led spending bill that would set two separate funding deadlines next year.

The latest Lancet Countdown, an annual analysis from the prestigious medical journal, underscores the vast and growing costs of fossil fuel burning on health.

Tensions among House Republicans boiled over in a physical altercation between former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Rep. Tim Burchett, one of the members who voted to oust McCarthy from the job.

Dozens of U.S. diplomats and aid experts have been expressing dissent over US policy in the Middle East.