DETROIT (AP) — City Council President Mary Sheffield will be Detroit’s newest mayor and the first woman to lead the city.

Taiwan's democratically-elected government says China has no right to speak for or represent the island on the international ...

A UPS cargo plane crashed at a Louisville, Kentucky, airport where the company operates its largest package delivery hub ...

Typhoon Kalmaegi has left at least 52 people dead with 13 others missing in the central Philippines, mostly in widespread ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Bradley Heppner, the former chair of bankrupt financial services company GWG Holdings and founder of ...

Cheney had a 30-year career in politics, from serving as President Gerald Ford's young chief of staff to representing Wyoming ...

CEBU, Philippines (Reuters) -At least 58 people were dead after Typhoon Kalmaegi left a trail of destruction in the central ...

Democratic Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell faces a tough reelection fight against progressive activist Katie Wilson as voters in ...

Haiti’s government says that the death toll from Hurricane Melissa has risen to 43 and that 13 others are still missing ...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United States has proposed a draft United Nations Security Council resolution that would lift ...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United States has drafted a United Nations resolution that approves a two-year mandate for a ...

BELGRADE (Reuters) -At least 10 people died and several were injured in a fire that broke out in a home for the elderly in ...