Syria's rebel leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, dismissed online controversy over videos showing him gesturing to a young woman to cover her hair before posing for a photo with her last week. The incident drew criticism from both liberal and conservative commentators…

WASHINGTON — The president-elect Donald Trump said Thursday that he would rather House Republicans refuse to fund the federal government than support a funding bill that does not include a debt ceiling increase. “Republican obstructionists must be eliminated” – Trump…

Past and present presidents have demonstrated remarkably Christmas trees at the White House. Former President Benjamin Harrison is credited by the White House Historical Association as the first to display a Christmas tree in the White House, placing one in…

The tech giant has been accused of using illegally mined metals in iPhones and other products sold around the world. The most valuable company in the world – Apple – is being challenged by the Democratic Republic of the Congo.…

A total of 50 people were killed and 76 injured in two highway accidents in southeastern Afghanistan, a government spokesman said Thursday. One of them was a collision between a bus and an oil tanker on the Kabul-Kandahar highway on…

Amazon.com workers at seven U.S. plants walked off the job early Thursday during the holiday shopping rush, protesting the retail giant's unfair treatment of workers. Warehouse workers in cities including New York, Atlanta and San Francisco were involved in what…

Giselle Pellicote, a French woman who survived a decade of sexual abuse by her husband and dozens of strangers, said she hopes her ordeal will help make the world a better place for “women and men” as her ex-spouse of…

A senior Russian general was killed by a bomb hidden in a scooter outside his apartment building in Moscow on Tuesday, a day after Ukraine's security service filed criminal charges against him. A Ukrainian official said the attack was carried…