A new UN report outlines how vanishing lakes, overdrawn aquifers, and rapidly melting glaciers are pushing billions toward ...

The Trump administration is urging other nations to press a tiny Pacific island country to withdraw a United Nations draft ...

Gavin Phelan, from Cape Elizabeth, created an app to alert deaf and hard of hearing people to alarms and gunshots.

Encircled by critics and protesters at the United Nations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told fellow world leaders on Friday that Israel "must finish the job" against Hamas in Gaza, giving ...

The United Nations likes to see itself as the world's moral referee: issuing resolutions, censuring governments and setting ...

President Trump asked the United Nations why it exists, at his speech to the 80th annual General Assembly on Tuesday. He said during negotiations to end wars in Africa and the Middle East, "the United ...

Tuesday's expected to be the worst of the Gridlock Alert Days so far this year in New York City as President Trump speaks at the United Nations General Assembly. Drivers should expect delays and heavy ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I examine a recently released high-priority ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump’s rambling speech to the United Nations sparked widespread backlash on social media due to his attacks on ...

If it wants to stay relevant, the United Nations needs to focus more on its original purpose as a forum for conflict resolution rather than global policymaking. On October 24, the United Nations ...

The United Nations was established in response to the horrors of the Second World War and the Holocaust. The Holocaust has had a profound impact on International Human Rights Law, resulting in the ...