The Sept. 11 holiday memorializes the fall of Barcelona in the Spanish War of Succession in 1714.
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Justices at Scotland’s highest civil court said the government’s action was illegal “because it had the purpose of stymieing Parliament.”
It’s twice the size of Earth with eight times the mass, and its star is unlike our sun.
A Chinese businesswoman was convicted Wednesday of trespassing at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in March and lying to Secret Service agents.
T. Boone Pickens, a brash and quotable oil tycoon who grew even wealthier through corporate takeover attempts, died Wednesday. He was 91.
Saudi Arabia on Wednesday denounced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s pre-election vow to annex parts of the West Bank as a “very dangerous escalation.”
The Bahamas government says there are 2,500 people on its list of those missing after Hurricane Dorian. But the names have yet to be cross-checked against the lists of people evacuated.
Authorities in Florida’s capital city say five people were taken to a hospital for treatment following stabbings at a building supply business in an industrial park.
French police are appealing for victims and witnesses to come forward to aid their probe into Jeffrey Epstein and anyone else involved in the disgraced financier’s alleged sexual exploitation of women and girls, and say they have already interviewed three people who identified themselves as victims.
This account of how their relationship unraveled is based on interviews with current and former administration officials and Republicans close to the White House. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations.
Conservative Republican Dan Bishop won a special election for an open House seat in North Carolina, averting a demoralizing Democratic capture of a district the GOP has held for nearly six decades.
President Donald Trump participated in somber memorial services on the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with first lady Melania Trump at his side.
“Our only hope was peace,” Hayat Khan, the Afghanistan family’s 54-year-old patriarch, said Tuesday, “and that doesn’t happen now.”
Americans are commemorating 9/11 with mournful ceremonies, volunteering, appeals to “never forget” and rising attention to the terror attacks’ extended toll on responders.
Iran’s president urged the U.S. on Wednesday to “put warmongers aside” as tensions roil the Persian Gulf amid an escalating crisis between Washington and Tehran in the wake of the collapsing nuclear deal with world powers.