Costa Rica on Wednesday cut diplomatic ties with Cuba and President Rodrigo Chaves declared that the "hemisphere must be cleansed of communists." ...

The Federal Reserve voted to hold the overnight borrowing rate steady Wednesday, which analysts had widely expected. Mortgage rates increased in the lead up to today’s Fed meeting, as markets ...

Oil prices surged Wednesday following a strike on a major Iranian gas facility as the Federal Reserve raised its inflation forecast while holding interest rates steady.

Iran launched attacks targeting oil and gas facilities around the Gulf on Wednesday, lashing out after suffering yet another ...

Colombian immigration authorities said Wednesday they had arrested an Ecuadoran drug trafficker linked to the 2023 murder of a popular candidate just before Ecuador's presidential election.

US civil rights icon Cesar Chavez, whose decades of campaigning brought lasting changes to workers' rights, is accused of being a serial rapist who abused children and harassed women in ...

The US Federal Reserve raised its outlook for inflation as it held interest rates steady on Wednesday, citing an "uncertain" ...

Markwayne Mullin, US President Donald Trump's pick for Homeland Security chief, distanced himself from his fired predecessor Kristi Noem as he was grilled over immigration policy at a contentious Sena ...

Thousands of people gathered outside Istanbul City Hall Wednesday to mark one year since the arrest of the city's mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu in a graft probe widely seen as a ...

Gulf states and Western nations strongly criticised Iran at an emergency meeting Wednesday of the UN's maritime body, convened amid growing fears for thousands of stranded ships and seafarers.

Discoveries made by archaeologists suggest that the first villagers used clay not to cook, but to tell stories about who they were.

A little girl with cancer who captured hearts across the globe after receiving a record-breaking 304,000 birthday cards has died just two weeks after turning eight. Amelia Kolpa passed away surrounded ...