Family members and survivors on Friday sought news of the 630 people considered missing after the deadliest wildfire in California history reduced much of the town of Paradise to ash and charred rubble, and killed 63.

Federal judge Timothy J. Kelly sided with CNN on Friday, ordering the White House to reinstate chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta's press pass.

Democrat Stacey Abrams announced Friday she was ending her run against Republican Brian Kemp in Georgia's gubernatorial race.

Prosecuting the WikiLeaks founder raises hard questions about U.S. press freedom that may not, at present, be answerable.

British Prime Minister Theresa May won the backing of the most prominent Brexiteer in her government on Friday as she fought to save a draft European Union divorce deal that has stirred up a plot to force her out of her job.

The US president added that he responded to the questions on alleged Russian collusion "very easily".

The conclusion counters Saudi Arabia's explanation for Khashoggi's death. The kingdom claimed that the Washington Post columnist died in an altercation at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last month.

The U.S. House of Representatives' Ethics Committee on Friday censured one lawmaker for sexually harassing women and another for mishandling accusations of sexual misconduct against his chief of staff.

Workers at the Broward County elections office showed ballots to Republican and Democratic observers during a hand recount on Friday in Lauderhill, Fla.

Elvis, Babe Ruth and Antonin Scalia are honored posthumously, while GOP megadonor Miriam Adelson is among the living honorees.

A letter from the senators adds to what has become Facebook’s latest crisis over its handling of Russia’s activity on the social network.

The heavily militarized border between the Koreas. The American who tried to cross into North Korea from China last month had tried to enter the country from the South last November, and was detained by South Korean soldiers.

A strong wintry storm still was dumping snow Friday in far northern New England after creating traffic havoc that claimed at least eight lives across the country's eastern half and knocked out power for tens of thousands of people.

The vote takes place in January, “so I’m not in a rush,” the Ohio congresswoman said.

Central American migrants on Mexico's northern border are coming under pressure from two sides as the Trump administration blocks asylum to anyone entering the United States illegally, while local politicians question whether they should be in Mexico.

Andrew R. Wheeler has been the acting administrator since July, when Scott Pruitt stepped down amid multiple ethics investigations.

The United States opposed on Friday for the first time an annual draft resolution at the United Nations calling on Israel to rescind its authority in the occupied Golan Heights, drawing praise from Israeli officials.

A U.N.-backed court found two leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge guilty of genocide on Friday, almost four decades after the ultra-Maoist regime which oversaw the "Killing Fields" was overthrown.

George Conway, husband of Kellyanne Conway, said he would "move to Australia" before voting again for Donald Trump.

Senator Chuck Grassley said on Friday he will relinquish his job as U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman next year, creating a coveted vacancy atop a panel that reviews judicial nominations and was among those examining Russia's role in U.S. elections.

The late U.S. senator John McCain was posthumously given the 2018 Sergei Magnitsky Human Rights Award in a ceremony in London, Nov. 16, 2018. The award recognizes those who have fought for human rights in Russia - and are named after a lawyer who was murdered in a Moscow jail in 2009. Henry Ridgwell reports from the ceremony.

North Korea's leader witnessed the test of a newly developed high-tech weapon, the country's state media reported on Friday, while Pyongyang also released a U.S. prisoner, sending conflicting signals at a time of sensitive negotiations.

President Donald Trump has signed legislation that elevates the importance of cybersecurity work within the Department of Homeland Security. The legislation the president signed into law on Friday creates the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at DHS. The new agency will become the focal point ...

David Hockney's "Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)" shattered the world record for the most expensive work by a living artist sold at auction.

"I should have done that, I was extremely busy on calls for the country, we did a lot of calling as you know," he told Fox News' Chris Wallace

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the new Democratic representative-elect from New York, seized on a social media smear to show she's not afraid to call out sexism or define herself on her own terms.

CHEMNITZ (Sputnik) - People took to the streets of the German city of Chemnitz on Friday to rally against the government’s migration policy and demand that Chancellor Angela Merkel step down, a Sputnik correspondent reported.

It plans to sell its upcoming ID compact for about what a diesel-powered Golf costs, in an effort to expand the appeal of battery-powered cars.

Model and actress Kim Porter, who shares three children with musician and entrepreneur Sean "Diddy" Combs, died Thursday, a representative of Combs told CNN.

Goldman had a successful literary career before he turned to Hollywood, where he made an indelible mark — as the writer of beloved movies as well as a best-selling guide to screenwriting.

Late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel begged former First Lady Michelle Obama to "save" the United States from the Trump presidency, comparing her husband Barack Obama to Superman.

The fight over President Donald Trump's appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general has reached the U.S. Supreme Court, with lawyers in a pending gun rights case asking the justices on Friday to decide whether the action was lawful. Critics have said the Republican president's Nov. 7 appointment of Whitaker, who ...

The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee, in its final days in power, is planning to issue subpoenas to former FBI Director James Comey and President Barack Obama's attorney general Loretta Lynch, according to a source with knowledge of the subpoenas.

An 11th child has died in less than four weeks at a New Jersey rehabilitation center, one of 34 young patients with compromised immune systems to have been infected by a viral outbreak, state health officials said on Friday.

Diane Greene announced she would be stepping down as Google Cloud's chief exec. Green's replacement will be the 22-year Oracle veteran Thomas Kurian.

Authored by Jason Ditz via AntiWar.com, After generations of being a black hole down which money goes, never to return, a team of 1,200 auditors tried to give the Pentagon its first ever comprehensive audit, just to see where all that money went. Unsurprisingly, it went poorly, and was declared a failure. How bad the failure was is something of a mystery at this point, with officials refusing to disclose the exact results, or even ...

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The US Department of Justice said in a court filing on Friday that it is engaging in talks about possibly resolving the case of accused Russian national Maria Butina and asks that the court postpone a status conference for two weeks to determine whether the parties can make a deal.

It looks like Mira Ricardel, the former deputy national security adviser whose firing First Lady Melania Trump publicly requested, was not interested in the other job the White House had lined up for her. After Ricardel was forced out of her White House job, the Trump administration offered Ricardel the position of ambassador to ...

Family and friends were baffled by the disappearance of Patrick Braxton-Andrew of North Carolina. Mexican officials now describe “a cowardly and brutal murder, of a totally innocent person.”

Mr. Trump and Mr. Pence leaving a press conference on Nov. 7 in which Mr. Trump asked Mr. Pence to be his running mate in 2020.

Americans ate less turkey earlier in the year, leaving plenty of birds for Thanksgiving -- and keeping prices low

The justices will hear arguments over whether Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross can be questioned under oath for the lawsuits over the controversial citizenship question he added to the 2020 census.

In a recorded company meeting, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos declared, "One day Amazon will fail. Amazon will go bankrupt."

LONDON (AP) -- British Prime Minister Theresa May has filled two vacancies in her Cabinet left by ministers who quit over Brexit.

Lawmakers in Sri Lanka's Parliament supporting disputed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa threw books, chairs and chili powder mixed with water to try to block the proceedings Friday, a day after a fierce brawl between rival lawmakers worsened political turmoil in the island nation. Police who escorted Speaker Karu Jayasuriya into the chamber held boards around him to protect him from being ...

At least 42 people were feared dead after flames swept through a passenger bus driving through southern Zimbabwe towards South Africa overnight, state media said.

The establishment media do not want you to know it was a Trump-hater who stood up during a Baltimore performance of Fiddler on the Roof to yell "Heil Hitler, Heil Trump!"

Tens of millions of people believed what looked like a feel good story about a New Jersey couple helping a homeless man. Now, prosecutors say it was a huge scam. They claim Mark D'Amico and Katelyn McClure conspired with Johnny Bobbitt to defraud people out of more than $400,000. The couple set up a GoFundMe account for Bobbitt, ...

President Trump once convinced drug manufacturer Pfizer to curb its price hikes. This time, he may not be so lucky. America's biggest drug manufacturer announced Friday it would increase prices on 10 percent of its prescriptions in January, Bloomberg reports. The move comes after Republicans lost the House in last week's midterms — something experts suggest isn't a coincidence. The price hike affects 41 ...

Jeff Rohrer will make history when he marries his gay partner in Los Angeles on Sunday.

George Papadopoulos, a former aide to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign who pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents probing ties between the campaign and Russia, filed a motion on Friday seeking to postpone his sentence pending a separate case he hoped would lead to his conviction being overturned.

The cost of all the goods and services in the classic carol rose just 1.2% this year, thanks to one tarnished item

The veterans say they were unfairly given less-than-honorable discharges for minor infractions linked to their untreated mental health problems

John Kerry, the former US presidential candidate and secretary of state for the Obama administration, discusses his life and career with the Observer's chief political commentator, Andrew Rawnsley. Kerry reflects on his early memories, his role in the Vietnam war and what action needs to be taken to address the issues presented by climate change. Kerry told the live audience: 'We face several life-threatening challenges … if we don’t respond very ...

Miles Scott, the Make-A-Wish recipient who became Batkid in San Francisco for a day, has seen reduced signs of the blood cancer each year since he donned the cape and cowl in 2013.