More than three dozen senators and House members have reported receiving suspicious envelopes, some containing white powder ...

Actor Andrew Scott turns 50 and TV personality Kim Kardashian turns 46, among the famous birthdays for Oct. 21.

A woman holds a painting representing Kateri Tekakwitha in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican City on October 21, 2012. Pope ...

Today is Wednesday, Oct. 21, the 294th day of 2026 with 71 to follow. The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mars, ...

A federal judge has sentenced a 39-year-old Guatemalan man to 30 years in prison for his role in the smuggling-related deaths ...

Florida executed a 77-year-old Vietnam veteran for the 1986 fatal shooting of an Indian River County sheriff's deputy.

Nigeria confirmed its first case of Ebola virus and Kenya its ninth on Tuesday amid a multi-country outbreak that has ...

President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance announced a whistleblower program Tuesday that they said will pay cash ...

The ultramodern Guggenheim Museum, known to some critical New Yorkers as "Frank Lloyd Wright's Folly," will open its big glass doors to the public on Wednesday.

British police have re-arrested two men for the planned attack on the RAF Fairford air base where American planes were stored ...

Youth protests, descending into riots, have prompted Italy's government to send troops to Milan to control them.

The San Diego Zoo celebrated International Sloth Day with an appropriately-timed announcement: the birth of a baby Linnaeus's ...