Other than playing a teacher turned president on TV, Volodymyr Zelenskiy has no political experience. He defeated incumbent Petro Poroshenko in a landslide.

Assange was arrested Thursday after the Ecuadorian Embassy in London said he was no longer welcome. But what happened to the self-proclaimed master of "counter-purrveillance?"

The state Senate passed a bill Thursday repealing capital punishment. The governor has threatened to veto it, but supporters have enough votes to override a veto.

The springtime storm is bringing blizzard conditions to states throughout the Plains and Midwest. Minnesota braced to face the brunt of the storm Thursday.

Lawmakers across party lines voted overwhelmingly to ban the weapons after a massacre in Christchurch killed 50 worshippers. Owners have until the end of September to hand the weapons over to police.

The social media company said new artificial intelligence will figure out who has died, and make sure their profile doesn't appear in "painful ways."

Under the proposed rules, Internet companies will face penalties if they don't actively monitor and combat harmful speech online. Companies say the proposal is vague.

Even though they might not be as eager to please as dogs, cats can learn to fetch. And some even enjoy the game.

In the study by Japanese researchers, cats reacted to their own name. Researchers say it's the first evidence showing cats can understand spoken words.

Ugandan police say the 35-year-old woman was abducted while on a game drive in a national park near the border of Congo. It is U.S. policy not to pay ransom demands.

A federal court threw out the law enacted in Hot Springs, Ark., that applied to someone approaching a vehicle. The judge ruled that the law violated the First Amendment's protection on free speech.

Doan Thi Huong will plead guilty to a lesser charge. All charges against her Indonesian co-defendant, Siti Aisyah, were unexpectedly dropped last month. North Korea very likely ordered the killing.

The Time Magazine Person of the Year is an outspoken critic of President Rodrigo Duterte's regime. She accuses the government of furthering a 'descent to tyranny.'

Patrick Murphy, who escaped from prison and participated in a robbery that led to a murder, was scheduled to be executed Thursday. The court said he had the right to a spiritual adviser of his choice.

More than 100 migrants were picked up from a sinking boat in the Mediterranean. When they realized the ship was returning to Libya, officials say, they commandeered it and demanded passage to Europe.

Rockland County declared a state of emergency after more than 150 people contracted the virus in recent months.

The law runs afoul of Supreme Court precedent banning abortion restrictions based on how many weeks pregnant the mother is, the judge wrote.

Two female astronauts were set to become the first women to spacewalk together around the International Space Station this week. But they both wear medium spacesuits, and only one was space-ready.

Five men escaped from the Nash County Detention Center by sneaking through a hole in the exercise yard fencing. All but one of the men have been captured.

The president signed an executive order on Thursday conditioning research grants on "compliance with the First Amendment."