China’s Yang Jingru, left, and other athletes are reflected on the ice during the women’s 1500m finals A at the Short Track Speed Skating during the 9th Asian Winter Games in Harbin, China on Saturday ...

An Israeli female soldier was freed by Gaza militants ... where she will undergo an initial medical assessment," the military said. Later on Thursday, Hamas is expected to release two more Israeli ...

The National Weather Service, which is suffering its lowest staffing in decades, is staring down further cuts and the ...

Back in 1991, a 67-year-old Korean woman named Kim Hak-soon publicly shared her story of being forced to live in a military brothel ... to the "comfort women". But in China, the issue remains ...

The Trump Administration’s decision to close the U.S. Agency for International Development has drawn much criticism.

The CIA may have just doxxed itself. The New York Times is reporting that the Central Intelligence Agency, complying with ...

China's low birth rate and aging population are ending any hopes Beijing had of overtaking the U.S. as an economic giant.

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The decision, signed by Judge John J. McConnell Jr., is a temporary but significant victory for the Democratic attorneys ...

President Donald Trump has targeted the rights of transgender people in executive orders in his first two weeks back in office.

Senators of both parties hammered Pete Hegseth, Trump’s Defense nominee, over his past comments about women serving in the military.