TOKYO (AP) — Rice is essential to Japanese culture, tradition and politics. People take pride in the oval-shaped sticky ...

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in April, as elevated mortgage rates and rising prices discouraged prospective home buyers during what’s traditionally the busiest time of the year for ...

Just one day before the expiration of the former contract, Shannon Medical Center has announced that a new agreement has been struck with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas to maintain in-network ...

A small plane crashed into a San Diego neighborhood during foggy weather early Thursday, setting about 15 homes on fire as well as vehicles, and forcing evacuations along several ...

The two people shot and killed outside a Jewish museum in Washington were young staffers at the Israeli Embassy who were soon ...

Grabbing her daughter’s feeble arm, Asmaa al-Arja pulls a shirt over the 2-year-old’s protruding ribs and swollen belly. The ...

The number of Americans filing unemployment claims last week fell slightly as businesses continue to retain employees despite growing economic uncertainty over U.S. trade policy.

A retired high-ranking officer in Myanmar’s military was shot dead by a self-proclaimed urban guerrilla group on Thursday near his home in the country’s biggest city, marking the ...

House Republicans stayed up all night to pass their multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package, with Speaker Mike Johnson ...

Apple users are starting to get ways out of the iPhone maker’s so-called “walled garden.” For years, the company blocked app ...

Amber Salazar is the kind of idealist you just knew would end up running a bookstore — a lifelong reader who felt angered “to ...

Russia and Ukraine have scheduled no further direct talks on ending their more than three-year war, a Kremlin spokesman said ...