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Edmonton's Leon Draisaitl scored the game-winning goal with 31 seconds remaining in overtime to lift the Oilers over Florida 4-3 in Wednesda...

Nintendo Co on Thursday released the Switch 2, its first new gaming console in more than eight years, with robust preorder demand creating o...

The public security bureau in the Chinese city of Guangzhou has put up an undisclosed bounty for more than 20 people it suspects carried out...

Six weeks before UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down outside a Manhattan hotel in December, suspect Luigi Mangione mused abo...

Hundreds of Venezuelans deported from the United States to El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law must be given the chance to challen...

A woman told U.S. jurors Wednesday that hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs dangled her over a 17th-story balcony before throwing her onto furn...

Japan's Tokito Oda, left, and France's Stephane Houdet sign autographs after defeating Netherlands' Tom Egberink and Belgium's Joachim Gerar...

Princess Kako, the second daughter of Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Akishino, on Wednesday departed from Narita Airport for a 10-...

The U.S. tariff rate on most imported steel and aluminum will double on Wednesday as President Donald Trump ratchets up a global trade war o...

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto reads a book to students at the Dunsmore Elementary school in Glendale, California, on Tuesda...

Canada's wildfires, which have already forced evacuations of more than 26,000 people, continued their stubborn spread Tuesday, with heavy sm...

The family of the Egyptian national charged with tossing gasoline bombs at a pro-Israeli rally in Colorado was taken into federal custody on...

More than 100 inmates escaped from a prison and at least one was killed in a shootout in the southern city of Karachi overnight after they w...

Japanese baseball legend Shigeo Nagashima, a People's Honor Award recipient who rose to stardom for his on-field exploits during the country...

President Donald Trump on Monday appeared to undercut a proposal that was offered by his special envoy to Iran, saying he will insist that T...

Sicily’s Mount Etna put on a fiery show Monday, sending a cloud of smoke and ash several kilometers (miles) into the air, but officials said...

Workers walk between precision-machining machines for automotive parts inside a factory at Kyowa Industrial Co. in Takasaki, Gunma Prefectur...

Retired sumo great Hakuho will quit the ancient Japanese sport following a row over the forced closure of his wrestling stable for physical...

Candidates running in South Korea's snap presidential election stage made a last push for votes on Monday, the eve of a poll triggered by th...

China said Monday it "firmly rejects" U.S. claims that it had violated a sweeping tariffs deal, as tensions between the two economic superpo...

Maja Stark captured her first major title in impressive style Sunday, carding an even-par 72 to win the U.S. Women's Open by two strokes ove...

Several people were injured and some may have been set on fire at an outdoor mall in Boulder, Colorado, police said. Police said a man was t...

Ukraine said Sunday it destroyed Russian bombers worth billions of dollars as far away as Siberia, in its longest-range assault of the war a...

Strauss’ “Blue Danube” waltz has finally made it into space, nearly a half-century after missing a ride on NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft....

The White House on Saturday withdrew its nominee for NASA administrator, Jared Isaacman, abruptly yanking a close ally of Elon Musk from con...