Attorney General Merrick B. Garland names special counsel for Trump investigations.

Twenty-one people were killed after a fire broke out during a family celebration in the northern Gaza neighborhood of Jabaliya.

An early-season snowstorm in the Great Lakes region dumped snow at rates of two to three inches an hour across a series of towns in upstate New York.

Workers at dozens of unionized Starbucks stores across the country protested what they say are anti-union tactics by the company, such as a refusal to bargain in good faith.

A Dutch court sentenced three men with ties to the Russian security services to life in prison for shooting down a passenger jet over Ukraine in 2014, killing 298 people on board. A fourth suspect was acquitted.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi addresses her future plans with the Democratic Party.

China's leader, Xi Jinping, accused Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada of leaking details from an earlier conversation between them to reporters.

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said he expected to hold off a challenge by Senator Rick Scott of Florida for his position as the Senate's Republican leader, following the party's poor performance in the midterms.

Five cadets were in critical condition after a car plowed into a group of Los Angeles Sheriff's Department and police recruits during a training run on Wednesday.

Poland's president and NATO's secretary general said an explosion in Polish territory was likely caused by a Ukrainian air defense missile that was intended to fend of Russian attacks.