President Donald Trump said he "watched a little" of the impeachment hearing, but didn't like what he saw. "It's a disgrace, it's a hoax," he said.       ... Read more »

Louisville improved to 9-0 last week to stay No. 1 in the USA TODAY men's basketball poll. Ohio State, Kansas, Maryland and Duke complete top five.       ... Read more »

Closing arguments began Monday in the murder trial of a former concierge who claimed self-defense in the gruesome slaying of two Boston physicians.       ... Read more »

The White Island Volcano is New Zealand's most active cone volcano, built up by continuous volcanic activity over the past 150,000 years.       ... Read more »

Ed Smart told Gayle King he wanted to speak out publicly because he wanted to reach out to other gay men "who are struggling in the same spot."       ... Read more »

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, who headed the central bank from 1979 to 1987, has died at age 92.       ... Read more »

Approximately two months after anchor Shepard Smith surprised audiences by departing Fox News, Bill Hemmer has been announced as his replacement.       ... Read more »

The county medical examiner is performing an autopsy on the body of Juice Wrld, 21, who died suddenly after landing at Chicago Midway airport.       ... Read more »

A volcanic eruption on White Island killed at least five people Monday. More are missing as search and rescue crew cannot yet return to the island.       ... Read more »

DOJ IG Michael Horowitz's report, released Monday, says the FBI was not driven by bias against President Donald Trump in launching the Russia probe.       ... Read more »

Turkey aims to settle one million Syrian war refugees in the area of northern Syria where it carried out a military incursion in October, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday. ... Read more »

The U.S. Justice Department's internal watchdog said it found numerous errors but no evidence of political bias by the FBI when it opened an investigation into contacts between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russia in 2016. ... Read more »

Prime Minister Boris Johnson will travel to the heartlands of Brexit Britain in a final campaign blitz ahead of Thursday's election, as he seeks to secure the parliamentary majority he needs to take the country out of the European Union. ... Read more »

The Dec. 12 election will decide whether the United Kingdom leaves the European Union in January or moves toward another EU referendum. ... Read more »

New Zealand said on Tuesday that eight people were missing, presumed dead, a day after a volcano unexpectedly erupted off the coast of New Zealand's North Island, killing at least five people and injuring more than 30. ... Read more »

Russia's national team will not be able to play at the 2022 World Cup as an official Russian side following doping sanctions that bar the country from major sporting events for four years, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said on Monday. ... Read more »

The biggest beneficiaries of Russia's ban at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games ought to be the United States, China and Japan, who should annex 10 of the banned nation's projected gold medals between them, according to data analysts Gracenote. ... Read more »

Russia was banned from the world's top sporting events for four years on Monday, including the next summer and winter Olympics and the 2022 soccer World Cup, for tampering with doping tests. ... Read more »

New Zealand said on Tuesday that eight people were still missing a day after a volcano unexpectedly erupted off the coast of New Zealand's North Island, killing at least five people. ... Read more »

Britain's opposition Labour Party is not expecting a run on the pound if the party wins Thursday's election, Labour's would-be finance minister John McDonnell said on Monday, adding that he thought the currency could rise instead. ... Read more »