The House approved legislation Tuesday that would ban abortions starting at 20 weeks of pregnancy, the most sweeping abortion restriction to pass any chamber of Congress in a decade. The vote was 228-196. While the measure is unlikely to become law — it faces ...

The U.S. government’s sweeping surveillance programs have disrupted more than 50 terrorist plots in the United States and abroad, including a plan to bomb the New York Stock Exchange, senior Obama administration officials testified Tuesday. The officials, appearing before a largely friendly House committee, ...

Mali, which lost half its territory last year to a rebel invasion, signed an accord Tuesday with Tuareg separatists who still control the country’s northernmost province, paving the way for the Malian military to return to the areas that remain under rebel control. The ...

Russia is on its way to sharply limiting the adoption of children by people from countries that allow same-sex marriage. Under a measure that passed its crucial second reading in the lower house of Parliament on Tuesday, Russia will prohibit adoption by foreign couples ...

Michael Hastings, the Rolling Stone journalist who triggered the 2010 downfall of U.S. Afghanistan commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal, died in a car crash Tuesday. Hastings, whose profile of McChrystal quoted the four-star general as criticizing President Barack Obama and his senior advisers, died in ...

An Italian who carried out a school bombing in 2012 that killed a teenager and wounded five others was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday, Italian media reports said. Giovanni Vantaggiato, a 69-year-old husband and father of two, set off a bomb made ...

He was drying off his freshly washed car. That’s what the Canadian man told the Mounties when they stopped him doing 180 kph on Highway 22 south of Black Diamond, Alberta, in Western Canada. The driver, a 67-year-old who lives in the area, appeared ...