Pelosi, who has served in Congress since 1987, already had two primary challengers ahead of her Thursday announcement. More candidates are expected to join the race.

Perhaps one of the biggest lessons of this week is that the anti-Trump vote appears stronger than ever. And, as notably, the pro-Trump vote appears as weak as ever. Even before the election, this was ...

Germans have more bakeries and eat more varieties of bread than most other countries in the world — no wonder it’s so good.

Six years ago, Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill were roommates and freshman members of Congress, part of a record-breaking wave of women who helped Democrats win back the US House.

Astronomers spotted the largest flare ever released from a supermassive black hole as it snacked on a giant star.

Nancy Pelosi, the first and only female speaker of the US House of Representatives and one of the most powerful figures in Democratic politics for decades, has announced she will not seek reelection.

A Southern California father who pleaded guilty to killing his missing 7-month-old son was sentenced Monday to more than 30 ...

Dozens of pastors and church members in China have been detained in a mass crackdown. The daughter of pastor Ezra Jin hopes President Donald Trump can appeal for her dad’s freedom in meeting with Xi ...

Kim Yong Nam, a quintessential North Korean bureaucrat whose lifelong loyalty to the ruling Kim dynasty allowed him to serve as the country’s ceremonial head of state for two decades, has died, state ...

After the government had been shut down for nearly a month, a conspicuously quiet President Donald Trump finally weighed in with a prescription for how to end it.

A federal judge in Boston indicated Thursday that she will intervene in a high-stakes fight over the Trump administration’s decision to not tap into billions of dollars in emergency funds to help ...

Boeing reported yet another massive quarterly loss Wednesday. It could still be an extremely good week to be Boeing.