Hurricane Lowell battered Hawaii’s western islands and is linked to at least 2 deaths

Hurricane Lowell’s intense winds and storm surge that battered Hawaii’s western islands this week are suspected in the deaths ...

Isao Harimoto, A-bomb survivor and Japan baseball great known as ‘Hit Machine,’ dies at 86

Isao Harimoto, the baseball great who survived the Hiroshima atomic bomb and still holds Japan’s hits record, has died. He ...

Houthi rebels reach a strategic port city in Yemen in a major threat to the country’s truce

Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have entered Yemen’s strategic Red Sea port city of Mokha, several residents said Thursday, ...

US home sales weaken to slowest pace in more than a year as mortgage rates, home prices climb

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes declined in August to their slowest annual pace in more than a year as home shoppers ...

Salman Rushdie will receive a National Book Award medal for lifetime achievement

Salman Rushdie, a U.S. citizen for the past decade, is to receive a literary honor reserved for the elite of American writers ...