Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced a general election will be held on Nov. 29, after his government suffered a bruising legislative defeat last week over emergency measures to address the country’s housing crisis

The Supreme Court is considering whether local governments can sue oil and gas companies for climate change costs

Dennis Hastert, who served as House speaker longer than any other Republican but later was sent to prison in a hush-money case, has died

The Nobel Prize in medicine has been awarded to three scientists whose work led to a tool that uses light to help unravel how the brain works

A 48-year-old woman from Chicago has been charged with first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of a 7-year-old girl

Washington Capitals captain and career goal-scoring record holder Alex Ovechkin said this will be his final season in the NHL

President Donald Trump rallied Republicans in the Dayton, Ohio, area on Saturday

A federal appeals court has heard arguments over whether a judge had the authority to restore billions of dollars in funding that the Trump administration cut from Harvard University

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will spend Monday trying to shake up his campaign after losing the first round of national elections to Flávio Bolsonaro