Rising electricity bills have become a central issue for voters ahead of Tuesday's midterm elections, as higher energy costs, an aging power grid and growing demand from data centers push up what households pay for power, ABC News reported.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio opened talks Friday with G20 counterparts including Russia's Sergei Lavrov, in meetings set to be fractious as wars in Ukraine and Iran, alongside surging energy costs, fan discord.

Residents of the Russian-held town of Oleshky in southern Ukraine began evacuating on Friday as part of a joint relief operation by the two sides, the first of its kind in four years and eight months of war.Many questions have been asked about the humanitarian operation...

Pope Leo XIV has become the first sitting Pope to vote in a U.S. general election, submitting a mail-in ballot ahead of the Nov. 3 midterms.

The U.S. scrapped plans for a photo of top diplomats of the Group of 20 largest world economies on the opening day of talks Friday as several Europeans objected to being photographed with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and threatened to walk out of the photo...

Democrats could capture as many as 240 House seats in Tuesday's midterm elections, giving the party its largest majority in nearly two decades, according to a new forecast from The Cook Political Report.

Israel demolished on Friday the homes of the assailants who killed two Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron last week, part of an ongoing operation that has forcibly displaced over 3,000 Palestinians.

A humanitarian convoy carrying residents evacuated from the Russian-controlled city of Oleshky in Ukraine has reached the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula, witnesses said on Friday.They said the convoy of buses crossed into Crimea from the Kherson region of...

Democrats could be headed toward a Blue Wave of major victories in next Tuesday's midterm elections, potentially gaining 24 seats in the House of Representatives and six seats in the Senate, according to new statistical forecasting models published by the University of...

Nasdaq futures slid 2.6% Friday after Amazon's plans for continued heavy AI spending and Intel's warning of cash burn this year deepened investor concerns about escalating costs of AI infrastructure buildout and the timeline for returns.

Ireland will set up a government body that would for the first time undertake research and preparations for the possibility of future unity with British-run Northern Ireland, Prime Minister Micheal Martin was quoted as saying on Friday. Martin told the Irish Times that the...

Israel's final election results confirmed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc lost its parliamentary majority and that weeks of difficult negotiations among very different parties, from ultra-Orthodox Jewish to secular to Arab-led, lie ahead.

Beijing dismissed as "groundless speculation" on Friday a report that said Jensen Huang, head of U.S. chip giant Nvidia, was the target of a Chinese spy plot. The article by The New York Times, published Thursday, said that U.S. intelligence officials concluded that a...

Democrat Senate candidate Mary Peltola denied Thursday that she knew anything about an effort to put another candidate on the Alaska ballot with the same name as the Republican incumbent as the Justice Department escalated a criminal investigation...

New data may challenge Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh's sense that the U.S. economy can handle a robust expansion without stoking inflation, as a key measure of price pressures jumped...

Russian teams must be allowed to play International Ice Hockey Federation events such as the world championships, the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled on Friday. CAS overturned IIHF decisions which excluded Russia...

Senate Majority PAC (SMP), the main super PAC backing Senate Democrats, has privately told top donors that Texas is the party's best chance to flip a Senate seat in a traditionally Republican state Tuesday, Axios reported Thursday.

Vice President JD Vance criticized Democrat James Talarico over energy policy and transgender issues Thursday while campaigning for Republican Ken Paxton in Texas, where a closely contested U.S. Senate race is entering its final days.

Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, said Thursday it's investigating reports of a potential security issue as its founder said the incident "does look like a hack on Binance."

Republican Sens. Roger Marshall of Kansas and Susan Collins of Maine are locked in tough reelection battles heading into Tuesday's midterm elections, with new CNN polls showing both trailing their Democrat challengers by 4 percentage points. The CNN/SSRS surveys released...

Army Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia, removed this week from one of the Pentagon's most senior military planning positions, admitted disclosing classified information about Iran and Ukraine to journalists, according to an internal investigation report obtained by Axios.

Britain's Government Communications Headquarters cannot account for thousands of storage devices that could hold sensitive intelligence, according to a watchdog report released Thursday. The Investigatory Powers Commissioner's Office said the agency, known as GCHQ, was...

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is signaling he has no plans to surrender his leadership position even if Republicans lose control of the House in next week's midterm elections, potentially setting up a showdown with two senior GOP lawmakers. House Majority Leader Steve...

Patrick Stewart, who rose from poverty in England to become an accomplished Shakespearean stage actor and then achieved global stardom as the erudite Capt. Jean-Luc Picard in TV's "Star Trek: The Next Generation" has died at the age of 86.

The Labor Department on Thursday finalized a rule requiring pharmacy benefit managers to disclose their compensation associated with employer health plans, including rebates from drugmakers and prescription-pricing spreads they retain.