Officials say 38 people have been killed in a crash between a passenger bus and a truck on a highway in Minas Gerais, a state in southeastern Brazil

President Joe Biden has signed a bill into law that averts a government shutdown

Authorities in Nigeria say At least 13 people, including four children, were killed in two separate stampedes in the country, as large crowds gathered to collect food and clothing items distributed at annual Christmas events

Hanukkah, Judaism’s eight-day Festival of Lights, begins this year on Christmas Day

Pope Francis is suffering from a cold and will deliver his Sunday blessing from indoors

The Pakistani Taliban says it carried out a deadly attack on a military checkpoint in the country's northwest

The Senate has rushed through final passage of a bipartisan plan to fund federal operations and prevent a government shutdown

Authorities have not formally named the suspect in the car ramming in the city of Magdeburg that killed at least five people and wounded hundreds, saying only that he is a Saudi doctor who has lived in Germany for nearly two decades and that he acted alone

The U.S. flu season is underway