New laws taking effect with the new year will affect Hollywood actors, social media stars and chatty motorists.

Over the next two years, 38 governor’s elections will be on the ballot, including in presidential battlegrounds and states ...

A fire ripped through an apartment complex on Christmas Day in Suitland, Maryland, leaving nearly a dozen families displaced.

Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok is next in line to take on the mantle of the acting presidency, according to South Korean law.

European stocks are set to open higher on Friday, as markets in the region reopen following a closure for the Christmas ...

A 66-year-old man was killed in a hit-and-run Tuesday in Kingman Park, a few blocks from Eliot-Hine Middle School, in ...

An Alabama woman who says she was raped by Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs when she was 13 can proceed anonymously, for now, in ...

Former Indian PM Manmohan Singh’s passing triggered an outpouring of tributes from Indian political figures, world leaders ...

China’s industrial profits extended their decline to a fourth straight month, dropping 7.3% in November from a year earlier.

Twenty-one years after the release of “Elf,” actor Mark Acheson revealed that his fan-favorite scene with Will Ferrell were ...

A woman is seriously hurt and a burning building partially collapsed in Northeast D.C. early Thursday after a car crashed ...

Stock futures hovered near the flatline Thursday night as investors look to end the holiday-shortened week on a strong note.