Gov. Glenn Youngkin delivered his final State of the Commonwealth address on Wednesday, closing out a four-year run that steered Virginia out of the COVID-19 lockdowns and attracted substantial business investment and job growth. But his four years in office also ran into partisan gridlock and failed to translate his achievements into Republican gains at the ballot box.

Verizon customers across the United States lost cellular service for hours Wednesday afternoon, with more than 175,000 users affected shortly after 12:30 Eastern Time. The disruption knocked out voice, text, and data services and continued into the evening, affecting major cities from New York to Houston to San Francisco.

A demonstrator was hit in the face with a projectile fired by a federal officer at close range during a Southern California protest, leaving him bloodied and with serious injuries, according to video and accounts from fellow protesters and family on Tuesday.

NASA wants to develop a nuclear reactor on the moon's surface by 2030 so that it can be used to support manned missions to Mars.

An astronaut in need of doctors' care departed the International Space Station with three crewmates on Wednesday in NASA's first medical evacuation.

Somali immigrants have flocked to Minnesota over the past two decades because of the state's liberal social policies and plentiful jobs that others won't do.

Police in Ohio's capital city said Wednesday that they have gathered enough evidence to link a man charged in the double homicide of his ex-wife and her husband in their Columbus home last month to the killings.

Renaming the Department of Defense the Department of War could cost U.S. taxpayers as much as $125 million depending on how broadly and quickly the change is made, according to an analysis released Wednesday from the Congressional Budget Office.

A federal court ruled in favor of California's new congressional map Wednesday, saying the fact that the lines were approved by voters as a way to give Democrats more political power shields it from any questions about being an illegal racial gerrymander.

A former Brazilian au pair testified on Wednesday that she turned against her former lover in a sprawling double homicide scheme involving his wife because she "wanted the truth to come out."

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said Wednesday he wants to move forward with redrawing the state's congressional map and have the Democratic-controlled legislature vote on it, despite opposition from a key fellow Democrat concerned that mid-decade redistricting could backfire and cost the party a seat instead of gaining it one.

The Pentagon must in coming months provide to Congress a report on China's signals intelligence, or SIGINT, collection capabilities in Cuba, along with what is left of Russian technical spying activities on the communist-ruled island.

The Pentagon must in coming months provide to Congress a report on China's signals intelligence, or SIGINT, collection capabilities in Cuba, along with what is left of Russian technical spying activities on the communist-ruled island.

Georgia's governor said Wednesday that he wants to spend $1.8 billion to unclog one of traffic-choked Atlanta's notorious chokepoints on the most important highway between the Midwest and Florida.

Fintech giant Bilt announced an overhaul of its credit cards on Wednesday, which notably will include an introductory rate on all card users' interest rates at 10% for one year.

Iran notified the U.S. on Wednesday that it won't execute protesters after sparking international outrage by threatening to kill a 26-year-old protester who had been sentenced to death.

U.S. allies are pushing to revolutionize how they evaluate and buy next-generation autonomous weapons.

Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodriguez on Wednesday vowed to continue releasing prisoners detained under former President Nicolas Maduro during her first press conference since Maduro was ousted by the United States earlier this month.

Syria's military said it would open a corridor Thursday for civilians to evacuate an area of Aleppo province that has seen a military buildup following intense clashes between government and Kurdish-led forces in Aleppo city.

The leader of Canada's French-speaking province of Quebec announced Wednesday he is stepping down because he is unpopular.

Wide-scale desertions and 2 million draft-dodgers are among a raft of challenges facing Ukraine's military as Russia presses on with its invasion of its neighbor after almost four years of fighting, the new defense minister said Wednesday.

Some personnel at a key U.S. military base in Qatar have been advised to evacuate by Wednesday evening, a U.S. official said. The decision came as a senior official in Iran brought up an earlier Iranian attack there.

A construction crane crashed onto a moving passenger train in northeastern Thailand on Wednesday, triggering a derailment that killed at least 32 people and injured dozens more.

Scientists in Antarctica on Wednesday inaugurated the first global repository of mountain ice cores, preserving the history of the Earth's atmosphere in a frozen vault for future generations to study as global warming melts glaciers around the world.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived in Beijing on Wednesday night, beginning a four-day visit designed to repair foundering relations between the two nations as Canada looks to develop ties with countries other than the United States.

The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and other Republican senators on Tuesday introduced a resolution calling for continued U.S. leadership in protecting religious freedom around the world.

Reverberations from the most consequential U.S. intervention since the 1989 invasion of Panama -- the stunning Jan. 3 capture and removal of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro -- are reshaping energy calculations around the globe, from pipeline politics in Canada to investment strategies in China.

Iranian demonstrators' ability to get details of bloody nationwide protests out to the world has been given a strong boost, with SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service dropping its fees to allow more people to circumvent the Tehran government's strongest attempt ever to prevent information from spilling outside its borders, activists said Wednesday.