The United States Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the Manhattan district attorney's demand for President Donald Trump's tax returns but kept a hold on his financial records, which Congress has been seeking for more than a year.

Police said Mayor Park Won-soon's body was found near a restaurant nestled in wooded hills stretching across northern Seoul after a more than seven-hour search involving hundreds of police officers, firefighters, drones and dogs.

U.S. President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, was returned to federal prison weeks after his early release to serve the remainder of his sentence at home due to the coronavirus pandemic, the federal Bureau of Prisons said Thursday.

A police investigation concluded the cause of death of a Black man found hanging from a tree in a Southern California city park last month was suicide, authorities said Thursday.

The United States has imposed sanctions on Chinese officials, including a member of the country's powerful Politburo, accusing them of serious human rights abuses against the Uighur Muslim minority, a move likely to further ratchet up tensions between Washington and Beijing.

Authorities say former Glee star Naya Rivera is missing and being searched for at Lake Piru in Southern California, with her young son being found alone on a boat the actress rented.

Canada has joined an international group of nearly two dozen other countries working to protect the world's oceans. 

Tesla Inc.'s blistering stock rally is putting CEO Elon Musk in reach of a payday potentially worth $1.8 billion US, his second jackpot from the electric carmaker in about two months.

The World Health Organization said on Thursday that it was setting up an independent panel to review its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the response by governments.

With the coronavirus pandemic plunging the economy into a recession, decimating small businesses and causing job losses across the country, a small town in Washington state is trying out an innovative way to help residents weather the storm.

Donald Trump’s call to reopen schools is winning rare support from a group that’s included some of the U.S. president’s harshest critics: public-health experts. There are caveats, however.

Centuries before Europeans reached the Americas, two groups of people separated by 6,800 kilometres of ocean met, exchanged sweet potatoes — and interbred, a new study confirms.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Thursday announced measures to help Hong Kong citizens start a new life in Australia, including extending visas by five years, after Beijing imposed a new security law on the Asian financial hub.

The World Health Organization said on Thursday that it's setting up an independent panel to review both its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the response by governments. Here's what's happening with coronavirus around the world.

The United States Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the Manhattan district attorney's demand for President Donald Trump's tax returns but kept a hold on his financial records, which Congress has been seeking for more than a year.

Flooding and mudslides have stranded hundreds of people in scenic hot springs and hiking areas in central Japan.

Canadian barley farmers are the unintended beneficiaries of a diplomatic spat a world away, as exports of their product to the Chinese market are picking up.

Four months, three million confirmed infections and more than 130,000 deaths into the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., Americans confronted with a resurgence of COVID-19 are facing long lines at testing sites in the summer heat or are getting turned away. 

As George Floyd told Minneapolis police officers that he couldn't breathe more than 20 times in the moments before he died, the officer who pressed his knee against Floyd's neck dismissed his pleas, saying "it takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to talk," according to transcripts of body camera video recordings made public Wednesday.

Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology sued the Trump administration on Wednesday, seeking to block a new rule that would bar foreign students from remaining in the U.S. if their universities move all courses online due to the coronavirus pandemic.