A shooter suspected of killing one person and wounding five others on Friday in the town of Trappes, near Paris, has had his police custody suspended for a 48-hour psychiatric observation, anti-terror prosecutors said Sunday. The 39-year-old man is believed to have had racist motivations behind the gun attack as most of the victims had foreign origins.

A pivotal trial of vaccines against the strain of Ebola that is driving a deadly outbreak across parts of Africa has begun in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the epidemic originated and the vast majority of cases and deaths have occurred. The first participant was vaccinated on Friday in Bunia, eastern Congo, with Merck & Co.s Ervebo shot, which has ...

Some might remember Orchid and Onion awards, an annual Madison tradition established by the Capital Community Citizens organization in the mid-1970s.

Three constitutional amendments are on the ballot.

A close reading of the State Journal's Oct. 2 article "Wealthy backers give edge to Tiffany," describing the third-quarter fundraising by the candidates for governor, reveals a lot about their respective allegiances.

U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Hazelhurst, who is running for governor of Wisconsin, was a co-sponsor of a bill in Congress criminalizing abortion after six weeks. Hes voted against reproductive freedom other times.

In her column on Monday's Opinion Page, "AI is changing motherhood for the worse," Abby McCloskey bemoans the impact of artificial intelligence on parenting and how its replacing the sharing of knowledge with other parents. She writes about how she…

Pay no attention to the endless stream of political ads that incessantly interrupt your day. Theyre not intended to inform, theyre meant to inflame, with carefully fashioned content that often plays fast and loose with the truth. And despite what…

Hope you enjoyed the relatively nice Saturday because changes are ahead Sunday into early next week. That includes a big ramp up in winds, a...

People in Serbia are voting in a parliamentary election that is being viewed as a showdown between former president Aleksandar Vucic and a university student protest movement.

With the GOP staring down brutal midterm math, the network's host is getting cranky

Thousands of young people marched Saturday through the streets of several Italian cities, including Milan, Rome and Turin, as authorities deployed large numbers of police and soldiers in a largely successful bid to stave off a repeat of the violent clashes and looting that...

Tech tycoon Elon Musk accused Ukraine on Saturday of violating Starlink's terms of service by using it for "drone strikes to kill people", after tension between Washington and Kyiv over disruptions to the SpaceX-made network crucial to the Ukrainian army's...

The Archdiocese of New York and attorneys for about 1,300 parishioners who said they were sexually abused by clergy have agreed to an $800 million settlement of their legal claims, the second-largest involving a Catholic archdiocese in the U.S.Archbishop Ronald Hicks sent...

A shooting near a Florida university campus in Tallahassee on Saturday night left 11 people with gunshot wounds and another injured, authorities said.The shooting took place near Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University's campus on Perry Street, the university said,...

Hong Kong firefighters continued to battle a hill fire near a residential area in Tuen Mun on Sunday afternoon, several hours after it broke out. No injuries were reported, but the flames were spreading along the hillside near Shan King Estate, not far from two secondary schools, sending thick clouds of smoke billowing into the air. The blaze, reported at ...

Hundreds of poll chaplains will be at election sites around the state on Nov. 3.

The Rondo Community Land Trust wants to break up the superblock near the State Capitol.

A deputy in small-town Texas became the local face of ICEs national crackdown.

At the University of California campuses in Berkeley, Irvine and Santa Barbara, students get an unwitting education in navigating the housing market.

Luiz Incio Lula da Silva, the leftist incumbent, and Flvio Bolsonaro, the right-wing challenger, face off in a narrow race that could redefine the future of Latin America.

Brazils President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva faces an uphill battle for another term, in a high-stakes election that may reshape Latin America.