HEALTH OVERHAUL-UNINSURED WASHINGTON — Going into President Barack Obama's last year in office, progress has stalled on reducing the number of uninsured Americans under his signature health...

Twitter appears ready to loosen its decade-old restriction on the length of messages in a bid to make its service more appealing to a wider audience accustomed to the greater freedom offered by...

The United States, South Korea and Japan agreed to launch a "united and strong" international response to North Korea's claim of a successful hydrogen bomb test, as experts scrambled Thursday to find...

Islamic State militants murdered a journalist who wrote about daily life in occupied Raqqa. The terror group had accused her of being a spy.  Ruqia Hassan, 30, was killed in September, but...

Pope Francis says restless hearts are seeking sure answers to life's questions without finding them. Francis has voiced this reflection during Mass in St. Peter's Basilica Wednesday to mark...

Police say they're checking a suspicious object found during a routine security check at the entrance to Chancellor Angela Merkel's office in Berlin. Federal police spokesman Thorsten Peters said...

A string of sex assaults and robberies during New Year's celebrations in Germany has fuelled debate about the country's ability to integrate large numbers of migrants, after police said that men who...

OBAMA-GUNS WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, with tears streaking his cheeks, launches a final-year push to tighten sales of firearms in the U.S., using his presidential powers in the...

Opposition members of Parliament criticized the British government Tuesday for failing to prevent a man charged with serious crimes from traveling to Syria to join Islamic State extremists. The...

North Korea said Wednesday it had conducted a powerful hydrogen bomb test, a defiant and surprising move that, if confirmed, would be a huge jump in Pyongyang's quest to improve its still-limited...