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Seven people have been shot in Washington, DC, the Metropolitan Police Department said early Wednesday.

Beauty salons in Afghanistan have been given one month to close as the country's Taliban leaders extend their repressive rule over women, who are already largely confined to their homes with bans on most work and study.

Some families of those killed in the 2018 massacre at a Parkland, Florida, high school will get a chance to visit the site where their loved ones lost their lives beginning Wednesday, the Broward County state attorney's office said.

Tesla's deliveries from its Shanghai factory more than doubled in the second quarter, accounting for over half of its record global sales, according to a Chinese trade group.

Sixteen children allegedly abused in the Philippines have been rescued after Australian police found sexually explicit material on the phone of a man arrested in Sydney.

A suspect held on suspicion of killing five people in a shooting where pedestrians and vehicles were fired at in southwestern Philadelphia on Monday night is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday on murder charges, a district attorney said.

The gunman who killed 23 people at an El Paso, Texas, Walmart faces a sentencing hearing in federal court this week, as prosecutors seek to have him serve dozens of consecutive life sentences for the August 2019 shooting.

China's top diplomat has urged Japan and South Korea to foster a sense of "strategic autonomy" from the West and cooperate with Beijing to "revitalize Asia," amid rising tensions between China and the two neighboring American allies.

Russia's defense ministry said it intercepted five Ukrainian drones near Moscow Tuesday in what it called a "terrorist" attack. There were no casualties or damage, it said. Follow here for live updates.

As America celebrated its independence, while divided on the true nature of its values, it also braced for a toxic presidential campaign likely to deepen its political trauma and again push the election system to its limits.

Two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies have been taken off field duty as their department investigates force they used when a couple was being detained at a Southern California grocery store last month, the county sheriff's department said.

Japan will soon begin releasing treated radioactive water into the ocean following approval from the United Nations' nuclear watchdog for a controversial plan that comes 12 years after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown.

South Korea is getting older -- and its care facilities are changing to match.

One person was killed and four others were injured after a fireworks explosion at an event venue in northeastern Texas, police said Tuesday.

A man swimming in chest-deep water at a Long Island, New York, beach was bitten Tuesday afternoon by what authorities believe was a shark.

The Israeli military's operation in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin is winding down but "not over" until the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) say it is, a spokesperson told CNN, as the United Nations expressed deep concern over the violence in the city's sprawling refugee camp.

A 69-year-old South Carolina woman was killed in an apparent alligator attack while walking her dog near a golf course on Hilton Head Island, police said Tuesday.

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered some Biden administration agencies and top officials not to communicate with social media companies about certain content, handing a win to GOP states in a lawsuit accusing the government of going too far in its effort to combat Covid-19 disinformation.

Elena Milashina, a prominent Russian journalist who uncovered the horrific crackdown on gay men in Chechnya, was "severely beaten" alongside a lawyer in an attack in the southern Russian republic, according to her employer Novaya Gazeta.

Highland Park, Illinois, marked one year since a gunman killed seven people and injured dozens during a July Fourth parade with a moment of silence Tuesday, for "contemplation, prayer or reflection" in memory of the victims.

Suspended Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton will not testify in his impeachment trial, according to his attorney, who called the proceeding a "sham" that would "encourage future kangaroo courts."

A spokesman for a super PAC backing Ron DeSantis acknowledged that the Florida governor and GOP presidential candidate is "way behind" in national polling and is "fighting uphill" to defeat former President Donald Trump in the 2024 primary.

After a police officer in France shot dead unarmed 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk during a traffic stop in Paris last week, two fundraisers were set up. One, to support the teen's mother. The other, for the family of the police officer who shot him.

A pair of "Real Housewives" stars are pushing back on speculation they are divorcing.

The television of 2023 has thus far been defined primarily by returning series, and particularly saying goodbye to several signature shows, including the finales of "Succession," "Barry," "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" and "Ted Lasso" (at least, as we currently know it).