Ned Price, a spokesman for the State Department, confirmed that a consular officer had visited the basketball star who is being held in a detention center near Moscow on drug charges. If convicted, she could face 10 years in prison.

At least one person was killed and several were injured after two tornadoes struck New Orleans and the surrounding area.

The confirmation hearings continue for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden's nominee to the Supreme Court.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson strongly refuted Republican accusations claiming that she has been soft in sentencing child sex-abuse defendants.

Investigators were still working to determine what caused the China Eastern Airlines flight carrying 132 people to crash in southern China, officials said.

The Senate Judiciary Committee delivered opening statements in the confirmation hearings for President Biden's nominee to the Supreme Court.

More than 40 marines were killed in a Russian rocket attack on military barracks in the city of Mykolaiv, according to a senior Ukrainian official.

Three Russian astronauts boarded the International Space Station wearing flight suits of striking colors – yellow and blue, similar to the colors of Ukraine's flag.

With a lopsided 424-to-8 vote, the House voted overwhelmingly to further penalize Russia's economy in response to the invasion of Ukraine.

Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, announced that the central bank would raise interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point in an attempt to tame rapid inflation.