Rubio urges restraint over Ethiopia-Eritrea tensions as rights group reports civilians killed

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is calling for de-escalation in the Horn of Africa amid renewed fighting in northern ...

Two years of headlines, one poll: how North Carolinians see the state’s biggest debates

We asked North Carolinians their thoughts about multiple topics that received plenty of coverage over the past two years.

Ukraine resumes attacks on Russian oil refineries, officials say, after brief truce

Russia’s Defense Ministry said that Ukraine launched a major attack on a refinery in the Ryazan region southeast of Moscow early Thursday. It said that air defenses downed four Ukrainian Flamingo ...

Israeli rights groups report a surge of Palestinian inmates being shot with rubber bullets

Two of Israel’s leading human rights groups are sounding the alarm about a surge of mostly Palestinian inmates being shot by guards with rubber bullets at close range ...

Ex-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is returning to federal court to face torture allegations

Ex-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro returns Thursday to a New York courtroom to answer a rewritten drug trafficking ...

School roof collapse kills at least 29, injures more than 3 dozen in Pakistan

An official says the roof of a private school has collapsed in northwestern Pakistan and killed at least 10 schoolchildre ...

Study says global warming did more than El Niño to turbocharge Hurricane Polo

Both climate change and a strong El Niño combined to cause Hurricane Polo to explosively intensify from a tropical storm to a ...

Teen accused of plotting mass shooting at Chicago-area Hindu temple

PALATINE, Ill. — Police in a Chicago suburb announced Wednesday that they had thwarted a potential mass shooting, arresting a 19-year-old man who they said may have planned to target a Hindu place of ...

NC treasurer’s decision could raise costs for state employees using Atrium Health

On Wednesday, Briner announced that most Atrium Health facilities would be moved to the out-of-network tier of the North ...

Everyone has the same question in the midterms — where's the beef? (And how much does it cost?)

Democrats have hammered on meat as well, but mainly just as one of the staples that cost more under Trump, squeezing voters' ...

Trump defends gifted Air Force One from Qatar and makes 2nd Amendment pitch as he campaigns for GOP

President Donald Trump has used a western campaign swing to pitch Republicans as 2nd Amendment guardians and defend his ...

Brewers stun Dodgers with back-to-back homers in 7th inning and take 3-0 lead in NLCS with 6-2 win

Jake Bauers and Garrett Mitchell hit back-to-back homers off Blake Snell in the seventh inning to help the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-2 in Game 3 of the National League Champions ...