MAPUTO, Mozambique. (AP) — At least 6,000 inmates escaped from a high-security prison in Mozambique’s capital on Christmas Day after a rebellion, the country’s police chief said, as widespread ...

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits held steady last week, though continuing claims rose to the highest level in three years. Jobless claim applications ...

(The Hill) — After long being an unofficial symbol, the white head, yellow beak bald eagle became the official U.S. bird on ...

Five Palestinian journalists have been killed by an Israeli strike in the Gaza Strip, the Health Ministry said Thursday. Israel’s military said it targeted a group of militants allied with ...

VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. ( WIAT) – A young actor from Alabama has died after he was injured falling from a moving vehicle. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office said 16-year-old Hudson Joseph Meek ...

The late Amada Cardenas was called many things — the “angel of peyote,” the “peyote rose” or simply “Grandma Amada.” The ...

The Native American Church is considered the most widespread religious movement among the Indigenous people of North America. It holds sacred the peyote cactus, which grows naturally only in some ...

In this corner of southern Texas, the plump cacti seem to pop out of arid dust and cracked earth, like magic dumplings. It’s only here and in northern Mexico that the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — What a wonderful year 2024 has been for investors. U.S. stocks ripped higher and carried the S&P 500 to ...

Republicans plan to move quickly in their effort to overhaul the nation’s voting procedures, seeing an opportunity with ...

The Russian operator of a cargo ship that sank in the Mediterranean Sea between Spain and Algeria said Thursday that it had been hit by a series of explosions in an act of sabotage.

Estonia’s government was to hold an extraordinary meeting Thursday as investigators try to find out what disrupted a Baltic ...