Torrential rains in South Korea — the heaviest in a century — are blamed for 44 deaths, mostly from landslides, according to the country’s Central Disaster Relief Agency.

The FBI is assisting local law enforcement in investigating the disappearance of an 11-year-old girl who was last seen Monday night in her northern New Hampshire home, authorities said Wednesday evening.

House Speaker John Boehner issued a warning to Republicans: “Get your ass in line.” The vote will show whether they do so in the face of Democratic opposition.

Families of victims of the 9/11 attacks will meet with top Justice Department officials in late August to discuss whether any of their relatives’ phone messages were hacked by employees of News Corp., likely participants said Wednesday.

A landslide near the South Korean town of Chuncheon killed 13 people and injured 24 others, authorities said Wednesday.

Convicted Ohio serial killer Anthony Sowell won’t be eligible for parole after being classified as a “sexually violent predator,” court officials in Cleveland said Wednesday.

NASA scientists are slightly more than a week away from launching a Jupiter mission they say will unlock key secrets of how our solar system was formed.

Tropical Storm Don has developed over the southern Gulf of Mexico with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph, the National Hurricane Center said Wednesday.

The Senate voted unanimously Wednesday to keep FBI Director Robert Mueller in office for another two years, extending a term that had been set to expire August 2.

Anders Behring Breivik, to hear his purported manifesto tell it, was nothing if not patient.