A long-delayed and debated bridge linking the Italian mainland with Sicily cleared a major hurdle Wednesday, allowing work to begin on what would be the world’s longest suspension ...

Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of the day President Lyndon Johnson made his way to the U.S. Capitol and, with Martin Luther King Jr. standing behind him, signed the Voting ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was follow-up legislation to the Civil Rights Act passed a year earlier. In a break from ...

Disney’s profit and revenue climbed in its fiscal third quarter as the entertainment company continued to add subscribers to its streaming service and see strength at its domestic theme ...

Hot products like a “Minecraft”-themed meal helped McDonald’s turn around its sagging sales in the second quarter. The Chicago burger giant said Wednesday its revenue rose 5% to $6.8 billion in ...

Three people have been temporarily displaced after a garage fire on Dartmouth Street early Wednesday morning.

A motorist was clocked driving at more than 320 kph (199 mph) on the Autobahn west of Berlin, a record high at more than 124 mph above the speed limit, German police said. The ...

Bosnia’s electoral authorities on Wednesday stripped separatist Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik from his position as president of the Serb entity in Bosnia, ...

A Virginia Beach woman spent two decades in a profession that’s on the right side of the law. But Tuesday, Tashonna McKinzie, 49, went before a judge on a charge that ...

Another lawsuit has been filed in connection to an incident in which Virginia Beach students allegedly racially harassed one of their classmates back in March.   As 10 ...

Neighbors connected with their local police officers Tuesday across Hampton Roads during National Night Out events, with one of the biggest taking place in Suffolk.

A fast-moving wildfire in a Mediterranean region of France near the Spanish border has left one person dead, several others ...