Global perceptions of the United States have deteriorated across the world over the past year and are now worse than views of China, according to an annual study of perceptions of democracy published ...

Legislators in Suffolk County, New York, strengthened an already existing animal cruelty law by making it a crime punishable by jail time or fine for convicted animal abusers to own pets....

A Kurdish militant group announced a historic decision Monday to disband and disarm as part of a new peace initiative with Turkey, after four decades of armed conflict...