Rain and snow are pummeling Northern California as the region feels the effects of a major storm that could cause flash flooding and rockslides

Southeast Asian defense chiefs are meeting with China, the United States and other partner nations in Laos for security talks, which come as Beijing’s increasingly assertive stance in its claim to most of the South China Sea is leading to more confrontations

An Alabama prisoner convicted of the 1994 murder of a female hitchhiker is slated to become the third person executed by nitrogen gas

The deadly collapse of a concrete roof at a rail station in Serbia has raised tensions across the Balkan county

A previously unknown musical work written by composer Frederic Chopin appears to have been found in a library in New York City

It was mostly Chris Stapleton’s night at the Country Music Association Awards

The U.S. defense chief says the Biden administration will give Ukraine antipersonnel land mines to help it slow Russia’s battlefield advances

Russia and China oppose changing the Kenya-led multinational force in Haiti into a U.N. peacekeeping mission

Percival Everett’s “James” has won the National Book Award for fiction