Explosion and large fire at a Dallas apartment building has killed 3 people, city official says

The Scripps National Spelling Bee has moved from suburban Maryland to downtown Washington, and not all spellers and their families appreciate the change

Nearly 3 million Cubans are experiencing water shortages every day because of a severe oil shortage that government officials blame on a U.S. energy blockade

A man has stabbed and wounded three people at the train station in the Swiss city of Winterthur before being arrested

Dozens of Palestinians in Gaza City gathered for funeral prayers for 10 people killed in Israeli strikes

A federal judge has ruled Alabama's use of nitrogen gas to carry out executions does not violate the U.S. Constitution

The U.S. State Department says it will designate Brazil’s two biggest criminal groups as foreign terrorist organizations early next month, a move that the South American nation’s government has repeatedly said it will interpret as undue interference in its politics

Yemen's former President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi has died at 80

Rescuers are trying to reach four climbers who fell on Alaska’s Mount McKinley, North America’s tallest peak, the National Park Service said Thursday