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The Justice Department on Wednesday filed the first federal lawsuit over the massive Gulf oil spill. Government lawyers have sued BP, Transocean and seven other corporate defendants. The companies are accused of taking short cuts on safety.

Alexei Navalny, Russia's leading opposition figure who is already in prison, received a new sentence of 19 years this week.

Australian writer Colleen McCullough has died at 77; she was best known for her doomed Outback romance saga The Thorn Birds, famously adapted for TV with Richard Chamberlain as a passionate priest.

The states — from the Gulf Coast, the West and Midwest — along with dozens of municipalities are trying to block rate hikes under the National Flood Insurance Program.

A look at eight areas of the U.S. finds that some high-priced hospitals are getting the upper hand with insurers. San Francisco's average inpatient payment rate was more than twice the rate for Medicare.

Dozens of people were treated for hypothermia or frostbite at Saturday's wild-card game between the Chiefs and Miami Dolphins.

Didier Gailhaguet, the head of France's ice skating federation, has resigned. French figure skating has been mired in a sexual abuse scandal after skaters accused coaches of rape and sexual abuse.

The U.S. is undertaking "extraordinary" measures to avoid defaulting on its obligations after the country reached its debt limit on Thursday. Now, a big political fight looms.

Thousands of people around the world took to social media Tuesday to honor Anthony Bourdain on what would have been his 63rd birthday. He took his own life last year.

TikTok and Universal Music Group still haven't come to an agreement about artists' compensation and AI-generated recordings. Now TikTok must start removing songs from UMPG, Universal's publishing arm.