Critics have cast the laws as a power grab by Texas' Republican-led legislature, aimed at disrupting how elections are run in an increasingly blue part of a traditionally red state.
Hurricane Idalia is over, but the rebuilding effort has just begun. Residents in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas can access federal, state and local assistance, as well as aid from nonprofit and charitable groups, to help them contend with storm damage to their homes, vehicles and other property.
The US government has filed a motion to stop a Titanic expedition planned for 2024, citing a law that protects and preserves the shipwreck as a gravesite.
Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn has reduced the prison sentence of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra from eight years to one, in a remarkable turn of events that caps an extraordinary decades-long political saga.
This summer's blockbuster "Barbie" has made it to Russia despite not being officially released there due to the war in Ukraine, and it seems Barbiemania has infatuated many Russians even as the movie draws condemnation from officials.
Home builder stocks are on a tear, boosted by a jump in new home construction as Americans shun the historically tight and unaffordable housing market.
A US District Judge has blocked an Arkansas social media age verification law that was set to go in effect Friday, according to a Thursday court filing.
China has rolled out a new batch of stimulus measures to boost the nation's ailing property market and support a weakening yuan, in its latest attempt to restore confidence in the world's second largest economy.
A Russian military blogger who has written critically of Russia's conduct in Ukraine was arrested in Moscow Thursday, according to state news agency RIA Novosti.
The Biden administration is asking Congress for an additional $4 billion to replenish the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Disaster Relief Fund, pointing to what it says is a particularly brutal stretch of natural disasters across the nation.
A self-made, septuagenarian billionaire with limited political experience has thrown his hat into one of the most consequential presidential elections of 2024, shaking up a race that could have huge ramifications far beyond its borders.
Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson have launched a recovery fund for the people who lost housing in the Maui wildfires, the pair announced in a video shared on Instagram Thursday.
Authorities in India are determined to keep a lid on any monkey business ahead of world leaders jetting in next week, by placing life-size cutouts of angry langurs across the capital to dissuade smaller pesky primates from wreaking havoc or hogging the limelight while the nation takes center stage.
Pro Football Hall of Famer Gil Brandt, widely regarded as the architect who helped build the Dallas Cowboys into one of the most successful and popular sports franchises of all time, died on Thursday, according to the Cowboys. Brandt was 91.
Soon after he became chief justice of the United States, John Roberts faced what he believed was a "crisis" involving the judiciary: Federal judges were underpaid.
Abad remembers rockets and barrel bombs tumbling over his hometown of Aleppo, a sprawling city in northwestern Syria that became the epicenter of a long-running civil war.
