Mikal Bridges is being traded by the Brooklyn Nets to the New York Knicks, where he will join Jalen Brunson and his other former Villanova teammates, two people with knowledge of the details said Tuesday.
Many states are failing to track how frequently children in foster care facilities are abused, sexually assaulted or improperly restrained, leaving them vulnerable to mistreatment, the U.S.
A Texas man who admitted that he kidnapped, sexually assaulted and fatally shot the 18-year-old girlfriend of his drug dealer was set to be executed on Wednesday.
The first U.N.-backed contingent of foreign police arrived in Haiti on Tuesday, nearly two years after the troubled Caribbean country urgently requested help to quell a surge in gang violence.
Fifteen months after Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg on espionage charges, he returned there for his trial starting Wednesday behind closed doors.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information, ending a yearslong legal battle and allowing him to return home a free man for the first time since 2012.
U.S. Olympic athletes have lost faith in the World Anti-Doping Agency to rid their sports of cheaters ahead of next month’s Summer Games in Paris, two former gold medalists said Tuesday in prepared before a House subcommittee.
Former Olympians Michael Phelps, from left, and Allison Schmitt, from right, and Anti-Doping Agency CEO Travis Tygart are sworn in before testifying before a House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill, on Tuesday.
The Arkansas Supreme Court reinstated an agency rule prohibiting residents from using “X” instead of male or female on state driver’s licenses or ID cards.
Israel’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that ultra-Orthodox Jewish men must be drafted into the military, a new blow to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that could lead to the collapse of his increasingly fragile governing coalition.
Elon Musk's Tesla is recalling its new Cybertruck for the fourth time to fix trim pieces that can come loose and front windshield wipers that can fail.
The mayor of Maui County wants the units rented long-term to people who live on Maui to address a chronic housing shortage that intensified after last August’s deadly wildfire.
The first Black mayor of Newbern, Alabama, who said white officials locked him out of town hall, will return to the role under the terms of a proposed settlement agreement.
The private operator of Puerto Rico’s power grid confirmed the deferral of $65 million worth of maintenance and improvement projects, putting at risk the already troubled grid — and sparking a widespread outcry.
A Seattle police officer was fired for calling his Chinese American neighbor racist and sexist slurs while off duty in 2022, according to a news report.
After production of the Volkwagen Beetle, known as "the people's car" stopped, taxi drivers in a Mexico City neighborhood preserve the tradition of driving colorful Beetles.
Columbia University said it has placed three administrators on leave while it investigates allegations that they exchanged unprofessional text messages while attending a panel discussion about antisemitism on campus.
More than 44 million people across the United States were under some form of heat warning or advisory Monday, with daily temperature records set to be smashed while the Midwest reels from dangerous storms and flash flooding, with more rain to come.
A 4-year-old California boy who wandered away from a campground in the Sierra National Forest was found safe after spending 22 hours alone in the wilderness, authorities said.
Angel Reese scored a career-high 25 points and grabbed 16 rebounds to help the Chicago Sky beat Indiana 88-87 despite 17 points and a franchise-record 13 assists for the Fever’s Caitlin Clark on Sunday.
Gunmen opened fire at a synagogue, an Orthodox church and a police post in Russia’s North Caucasus region of Dagestan on Sunday, killing six policemen and injuring 12, the region’s interior ministry was quoted as saying.
One of Chicago’s most popular tourist attractions known as “The Bean” reopened to the public Sunday after nearly a year of renovations and construction.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his Cabinet on Sunday that there had been a “dramatic drop” in U.S. weapons deliveries for Israel’s war effort in Gaza, doubling down on a claim that the Biden administration has denied and underscoring the growing strains between the two allies.
CAIRO — More than 1,000 people died during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia as the faithful faced extreme high temperatures at Islamic holy sites in the desert kingdom, officials said Sunday.
The coastal Nigerian community of Ayetoro was founded decades ago and nicknamed “Happy City,” meant to be a Christian utopia that would be sinless and classless.
People buying crayfish in Ayetoro. For one church leader, the pain is not only in the loss of land but also “what we are losing in our socio-cultural and religious identity.”
Thousands of fighters from Iran-backed groups in the Middle East are ready to come to Lebanon to join with the militant Hezbollah group in its battle with Israel if the simmering conflict escalates into a full-blown war.
Some 175 years after the U.S. government stole land from the chief of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation while he was away visiting relatives, Illinois may soon return it to the tribe.
A father trying to drown his two small children at a Connecticut beach early Saturday morning was thwarted by police officers, according to authorities.
This photo provided by the West Haven Police Department shows a vehicle that was on Prospect Beach off of Prospect Ave in West Haven, Conn., on Saturday.
FOLLY BEACH, S.C. — The husband of a bride who was killed in a South Carolina beach road collision on her wedding night last year will receive nearly a million dollars in settlement connected to the crash, which a drunk driver allegedly caused.
At least 39 people were killed by Israeli strikes across northern Gaza on Saturday, as rescue workers scrambled to find survivors beneath the rubble, according to Palestinian and hospital officials.
An Israeli was shot dead in a Palestinian town in the northern West Bank Saturday morning, Israel’s army said, while deadly strikes rocked northern Gaza.
U.S. Olympic and Paralympic CEO said Friday the federation would be supplying AC units for what is typically the largest contingent of athletes at the Summer Games.
Israeli forces shelled tent camps for displaced Palestinians outside Gaza’s southern city of Rafah on Friday, killing at least 25 people and wounding another 50, according to the territory’s health officials and emergency workers.
Argentina's President Milei promised to quash corruption but his Supreme Court pick Ariel Lijo, lacks appellate experience and has come under scrutiny for more ethics violations than almost any other judge in his court’s history.
At least 47 people have died as downpours in southern China’s Guangdong province caused historic flooding and slides, state media reported Friday, while authorities warned of more extreme weather ahead in other parts of the country.
A heat wave across India has killed more than 100 people and led to over 40,000 suspected cases of heat stroke in the past three and a half months, data showed.
Scientists studying a Colombian family plagued by early-in-life Alzheimer’s found some family members carry a mutation that delays their symptoms by five years.
At least two people were killed and nine others injured Thursday when a train full of passengers collided head-on with another train on a test run just outside Chile’s capital of Santiago.
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