Lt. General David McKiernan, the top commander of U.S. ground forces in Iraq, pledges to "aggressively target" crime in Baghdad and restore order to the city. Military officials deny a New York Times ...

Andrew D. Lester, 86, was awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty last week to felony assault in the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl. By Mitch Smith and Julie Bosman Andrew D. Lester, the ...

M23 fighters advanced on several fronts in DR Congo's volatile east Friday as the UN Security Council for the first time ...

(KMBC via AP, Pool, File) Ralph Yarl walks to the Clay County Courthouse to attend a hearing for Andrew Lester, who pleaded guilty charges stemming from a 2023 incident when Lester shot Yarl in the ...

An 86-year-old Kansas City man has died just days after pleading guilty to a lesser charge in the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black honor student who rang the white man’s doorbell by mistake ...

Do you hike in the mountains, swim in the ocean, watch the sunset or listen to birds? Do you wish the outdoors were easier to access where you live? By Natalie Proulx What is it like to report ...

Rwanda-backed rebels have tightened their grip on Bukavu a day after seizing the second major city in eastern Congo.

Severe flooding and landslides hit rural Peru, destroying homes and farmland in Nazca. A state of emergency was declared in ...

The morning after M23 fighters entered the outskirts of Bukavu — a city of about 1.3 million people that lies 63 miles (101 kilometers) south of rebel-held Goma — some streets were flooded by ...

Pull out any compact digital point-and-shoot camera at a party and everyone will want to take selfies. Pull out your smartphone, and people think you are tuning them out (even if you wanted to ...

Muhsin Hendricks, known as the world's first openly gay imam, was shot and killed in South Africa over the weekend, as authorities investigate whether the murder was a hate crime. In a statement ...