California Gov. Gavin Newsom to appoint fellow Democrat Alex Padilla, now California’s secretary of state, to serve the final two years of Harris’ term.

The brother of a woman judge assassinated alongside a colleague in the Afghan capital at the weekend told Monday how he heard the deadly shots as he was eating breakfast. Gunmen on motorbikes shot dead Zakia Herawi Sunday as she was being picked up to...

Russia launched a mass coronavirus vaccination campaign on Monday in a bid to end its outbreak without reimposing a new nationwide lockdown. Residents of the far eastern city of Vladivostok queued to receive the country's homemade Sputnik V jab early...

Now that Democrats will control both chambers of Congress and the White House, lawmakers see new chances to enact a range of climate change legislation.Lawmakers and environmentalists anticipate pushing measures to promote clean energy, decarbonize the...

A 70-foot rocket, riding beneath the wing of a retrofitted Boeing 747 aircraft, detached from the plane and fired itself into Earth's orbit on Sunday — marking the first successful launch for the California-based rocket startup Virgin Orbit.

President-elect Joe Biden nominated Gary Gensler to serve as the commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Rohit Chopra to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, according to a Monday statement.