What to know about the agreement signed by President Trump and the leaders of Denmark and Greenland

U.S. President Donald Trump and the leaders of Denmark and Greenland signed an agreement about the status of the Arctic island after months of threats by Trump to seize the semiautonomous ...

Takeaways: What a new AP-KFF survey reveals about rural American voters

A new poll from The Associated Press in partnership with KFF finds that about half of rural American voters believe the economy is worse off now than when President Donald Trump ...

Iran downplays indirect talks with U.S., and other Mideast developments

Iran reiterated its conditions for ending more than seven months of war with the United States, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed back against French President Emmanuel ...

Economic frustration tests Trump’s standing with rural voters, new AP-KFF poll finds

About half of rural American voters believe the economy is worse off now than when President Donald Trump returned to office, according to a new survey that points to economic ...

She lived to see ‘Deb’s law’ take effect. Now she can choose how she dies

Deb Robertson counted the days, hoping she’d live long enough for a new Illinois law to go into effect that allows terminally ill people like her to use a lethal prescription to end ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders unveils bill to ban artificial superintelligence and create Department of AI

Two leading progressive lawmakers, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar, are unveiling legislation Wednesday that would ban artificial superintelligence and create a federal ...

A mass shooting at a house party in South Africa kills 11, including a pregnant woman

Three shooters killed at least 11 people including a woman who was believed to be pregnant in a late-night attack at a house party in South Africa, police said ...

Asian shares are mixed and oil prices fall after Trump says US and Iran met at the UN

Asian shares were mixed Wednesday after Wall Street held near its record and oil prices fell following U.S. President Donald Trump’s remarks that United States and Iranian ...

Hurricane Polo is ‘one of the strongest storms ever’ and is churning off Mexico’s Pacific coast

Hurricane Polo has grown into one of the most powerful Pacific cyclones in decades, and it was expected to skirt Mexico’s southwestern coast as a Category 5 storm. Polo was an ...

A look at AI doomsday scenarios that researchers say could put humanity at risk

For years, artificial intelligence researchers have warned of ways the technology could wipe out humanity: AI bots could design an unstoppable disease, unleash a nuclear war, or transform all of ...

Russian attacks injure 7 across Ukraine and damage structures

Russia launched strikes at businesses and storage facilities in Ukraine overnight, injuring seven people across the country, according to local authorities. The Russian ...

Taiwan is watching closely as Xi and Trump meet and hopes US will keep up its arms sales

As China’s Xi Jinping arrives in Washington to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump, Taiwan expressed confidence that U.S. arms sales to the island that Beijing claims ...