Japan’s Defense Minister Gen Nakatani was welcomed aboard a South Korean warship during its port call near Tokyo on Wednesday, a first for a Japanese defense chief, as the two countries step up ...

Associated Press Republican Jeff Hurd has won the U.S. House seat in Colorado that Rep. Lauren Boebert left. Hurd’s victory fulfills the congresswoman’s hope that her mid-election departure from the ...

Thousands are protesting in Mozambique’s capital and police are responding by firing tear gas and rubber bullets as weeks of post-election unrest continued in the southern African country. It was spar ...

Associated Press Questions about sexual orientation and gender identity, and changes to queries about race and ethnicity, are on track to be on the questionnaire for the most comprehensive survey of ...

Democratic Rep. Dina Titus won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Nevada on Thursday. The Las Vegas district picked up Republican-leaning suburban areas after redistricting, turning it into ...

An Appalachian mayor has won an 11-candidate scramble for a Kentucky Senate seat left vacant by the Republican incumbent’s death two weeks before Election Day. Pineville Mayor Scott Madon outdistanced ...

A forest fire in a Philadelphia suburb is threatening homes Thursday in what officials call the driest conditions in nearly 120 years. The New Jersey Forest Fire Service says another fire about an hou ...

Democratic U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia said Thursday that he is battling esophageal cancer. The announcement comes after Connolly handily won his ninth House term on Tuesday. Connolly ...

California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, a fierce critic of former President Donald Trump, on Thursday called for lawmakers to convene a special session later this year to safeguard the state’s ...

A high-profile election official in Michigan has lost a write-in campaign to keep her job. Sheryl Guy has been the clerk in Antrim County, the cradle for unfounded election conspiracy theories back in ...

Associated Press A police chief in South Carolina says there is no “almost no danger” to the public after 43 monkeys escaped from a compound used for medical research. Yemassee Police Chief Gregory ...

Police say a gunman has repeatedly fired at cars on a busy highway near North Carolina’s capital this week, injuring one person. Several people reported gunfire on a stretch of Interstate 40 in ...