The Latest: Ceasefire at risk over Israel’s attacks in Lebanon, possible mines in Strait of Hormuz

Semiofficial news agencies in Iran published a chart Thursday suggesting the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard put ...

Scientists say the world’s oldest octopus fossil isn’t an octopus after all

A 300-million-year-old tentacled sea creature has lost its crown as the world’s oldest octopus, after scientists found ...

Japanese town sours on the crowds coming to see cherry blossoms and Mount Fuji

The trouble started with a beautiful photo. Social media was soon awash with the lovely view of Japan’s snow-capped Mount ...

Connor McDavid nets hat trick on 5-point night as Oilers surge into first place in Pacific Division

The best way for the Edmonton Oilers to shake off a tough loss was to let Connor McDavid take over the game. One night after ...

Oil prices rise again and Asian stocks retreat on the fragile Iran ceasefire

Oil rose again to above $97 a barrel and Asian stocks were trading lower Thursday on skepticism over a fragile ceasefire ...

Connor McDavid’s hat trick leads the Oilers to a 5-2 win over the Sharks

Connor McDavid scored his 15th career hat trick and finished with five points Wednesday night, leading the Edmonton Oilers to ...

Chart shows Iran may have put sea mines in Strait of Hormuz

Semiofficial news agencies in Iran published a chart Thursday suggesting the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard put ...

Russia’s internet crackdown leads to a spring of growing discontent

Several dozen people lined up outside a presidential administration building on a sunny spring weekend in central Moscow as ...

Democratic presidential prospects flock to New York to court activists at Al Sharpton’s conference

The Democratic Party’s most ambitious politicians are courting African American activists in New York this week as the ...

Republican fears grow as Democrats keep notching election victories ahead of midterms

The bluntest assessment of Republican failures during this week’s elections in Wisconsin came from one of their own. “We got our butts kicked,” said U.S. Rep. Tom ...

States are struggling to meet their clean energy goals. Data centers are to blame

Nevada’s largest utility says it will need three times the electricity required to power Las Vegas just to handle proposed ...

After Trump’s Iran ultimatum and a fragile ceasefire, Iranian Americans brace for what’s next

Zainab Haider was making the drive home after work with her two young children Tuesday as she contemplated what might come from the deadline President Donald Trump had set for Iran to concede to ...