The Associated Press

A high surf warning for parts of Northern California said waves would range from 28 to 33 feet and up to 40 feet at some locations, the National Weather Service said.

The growth rate for the U.S. in the past year was 0.53%, about half the worldwide rate. The U.S. added 1.7 million people and will have a population on New Year's Day of 335.8 million people.

Venezuela and Guyana are currently involved in a border dispute over a sparsely populated region the size of Florida with vast oil deposits off its shores.

Belarus' authoritarian president attended a government-organized meeting with children brought from Russia-controlled areas of Ukraine, openly defying an international outrage over such deportations.

The Missouri woman persuaded her boyfriend to kill her mother, Dee Dee, after she had forced her daughter to pretend for years that she was suffering from leukemia and other serious illnesses.

Israeli forces bombarded towns and refugee camps across Gaza overnight into Thursday, killing dozens of people in an air and ground offensive against Hamas that has widened to most of the territory.

Renowned South African playwright Mbongeni Ngema was killed in a car crash, his family said. He was best known for creating the hit "Sarafina!," which premiered on Broadway in 1988.

The U.S. announced military aid of up to $250 million. It could be the final package of military aid to Ukraine unless Congress approves supplemental funding legislation now stalled on Capitol Hill.

Both sides in the talks face pressure to reach an agreement after past steps like limiting direct travel into Mexico or deporting some migrants failed to stop the influx.

A Paris bank messenger's son, Delors became the visionary and builder of a more unified Europe in his momentous decade as chief executive of the European Union.

Tom Smothers was the co-host of one of the most socially conscious and groundbreaking television shows in the history of the medium.

A charter plane that was grounded in France for a human trafficking investigation arrived in India with 276 Indians aboard early Tuesday.