Alex Ovechkin is now six goals away from breaking Wayne Gretzky’s NHL record after scoring the 889th of his career in the Washington Capitals’ game Tuesday night at the Winnipeg Jets
South Korea’s truth commission has concluded that the government bears responsibility for facilitating a foreign adoption program rife with fraud and abuse, driven by efforts to reduce welfare costs and enabled by private agencies that often manipulated children’s backgrounds and origins
Portuguese police have seized a semi-submersible vessel transporting 6.5 tons of cocaine destined for Europe
Milwaukee Bucks guard Damian Lillard will likely be sidelined indefinitely, with the team announcing Tuesday night that he has deep vein thrombosis in his right calf and is taking blood-thinning medication
Phoenix flirted with its first 100-degree day of the year but fell just short of that milestone
Former professional soccer player Joey Barton has been found guilty of assaulting his wife by kicking her in the head at their family home
A federal judge says Iowa for now cannot continue to enforce part of its book ban law
National Book Award winner Sigrid Nunez and Booker Prize winner Anne Enright are among eight recipients of literary honors that include a $175,000 cash award
The gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack at an El Paso Walmart in 2019 in one of the the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history has been offered a plea deal to avoid the death penalty
A federal judge has ruled that a Columbia University student who faces potential deportation for participating in a pro-Palestinian protest cannot be detained by immigration officials for now
U.S. Vice President JD Vance says he’s joining his wife on a Friday trip to Greenland, suggesting in an online video that global security is at stake
World Athletics president Sebastian Coe says the track and field’s governing body has approved the introduction of cheek swabs and dry blood-spot tests for female athletes in order to maintain “the integrity of competition.”
An appeals court has allowed the Trump administration to stop approving new refugees for entry into the U.S. as a lawsuit plays out over the president’s executive order halting the nation’s refugee admissions system
Napster, a brand that was notoriously connected to music piracy before reemerging as a subscription music service, has been sold to Infinite Reality for $207 million
Police in Las Cruces, New Mexico, have played 911 emergency calls and video depicting chilling scenes of people running in panic as gunfire crackled in a park where three people were killed and 15 were wounded during an unauthorized car show
The Isle of Man is set to become the first part of the British Isles to legalize assisted dying as debate over a similar bill continues in the U.K. Parliament
European sales of Tesla electric vehicles tumbled 49% in the first two months of the year even as overall sales of EVs grew
Israel’s parliament has passed a state budget, a move that shores up Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition even as the embattled leader faces mounting public pressure over the war in Gaza and the hostage crisis
Actor Gérard Depardieu has testified on Day 2 of his trial in Paris on sexual assault charges
The Unification Church in Japan was ordered dissolved by a court after a government request spurred by the investigation into the 2022 assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
Samsung Electronics says the executive credited with elevating its television business has died
Federal prosecutors say the former interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani who was supposed to begin his nearly five-year prison term on Monday, has had his surrender date postponed
A Colorado woman has been arrested after authorities said some of her more than 50 dogs attacked and killed her 76-year-old mother
The Supreme Court has turned back an appeal from casino mogul Steve Wynn, who had challenged a landmark libel ruling as part of a lawsuit against The Associated Press
Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Xavier Worthy is suing his former girlfriend who accused him of attacking her
Nebraska's Antrell Taylor wins wrestling national title after losing dad, brother to gun violence
Trump's crypto empire set to expand with new stablecoin and investment fund offerings
Teen recovering after suffering traumatic brain injury at track practice
Police help expecting mother deliver baby on highway
Ukraine railways say Sunday's cyber attack hit its online freight services
Secretive Chinese network tries to lure fired federal workers, research shows
Woman shares 'extremely terrifying' moment she says her car was hit by lightning
Trump has begun another trade war. Here's a timeline of how we got here
Coach breaks world record for run across Iowa
