The Associated Press

An Alaska national park’s annual celebration of the beefy, brown and bristly is getting underway as some of the chunkiest bears on the planet fatten up for their long winter slumber

The Athletics already have carved out Jekyll-and-Hyde legacy as one of Major League Baseball’s most successful and sad-sack franchises with nine World Series titles and 19 seasons of futility punctuated by 100 or more losses

It has been a devastating week for Hezbollah and the people of Lebanon

This year’s vice presidential candidates both entered the spotlight this summer as relative political unknowns — but as they prepare to address their biggest audience yet in next week’s debate, Republican Ohio Sen. JD Vance is less popular among voters than his Democratic rival, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz

China has test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean

Residents in Indian-controlled Kashmir have begun casting their votes in the second phase of a staggered election for a local government

Residents in Indian-controlled Kashmir have begun casting votes in the second phase of a staggered election for a local government

The Houston Astros have clinched their fourth straight AL West title with a 4-3 win over the Seattle Mariners, overcoming a terrible start to reach the playoffs for an eighth consecutive year

The Houston Astros have clinched their fourth straight AL West title with a 4-3 win over the Seattle Mariners, overcoming a terrible start to reach the playoffs for an eighth consecutive year

Two former top editors of Hong Kong’s defunct online media Stand News will learn their sentences Thursday after a landmark sedition verdict