For the first time, the United States government was prosecuting a filmmaker for sedition over the contents of a movie, a ...

Words matter. Americans expect their representatives to honor their heritage, yes – but also to confirm their commitment to ...

Senator Schumer introduces new legislation to reverse Medicaid cuts impacting millions. Bill aims to restore funding and ...

Gov. Maura Healey said an attempt by Texas Republicans to redraw local U.S. House maps to increase the number of Republicans in Congress is a “partisan, craven political power grab” that affects ...

Eighty years after the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki amid the rationale that it would save lives, a new book tells the survivors' stories ...

When visiting Chongqing for the first time last November, Joshua Guvi was worried that the city he’d seen on social media couldn’t possibly be as cool in real life. Located in a mountainous area of ...

Women in Pakistan die every day for supposedly dishonoring their families, and arrests are rare. But Bano Bibi’s defiant last ...

Social control” campaigns aimed at minority groups have a long history in Colombia, with local vigilantes dealing death and ...

The state executed Black after Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee declined requests from attorneys, advocacy groups and even some Republicans to intervene.

One after the other, the opportunities vanished. Like so many other Afghan women, Sodaba could do little but watch as her ...

A 3-year-old toddler and seven adults, including a longtime missionary, who were kidnapped in the early morning Sunday in Haiti remain in the hands of armed gangs. The kidnapping occurred after a ...

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