For the families pressing relentlessly for the release of their loved ones taken hostage, moving forward is a contradiction. Within just weeks of Oct. 7, the outraged attention of much…

A top State Department official accepted the West African nation’s demand that American forces leave, a move the Biden administration had resisted NAPLES, Italy — The United States informed the…

After ping-ponging between severe drought and record rainfall, the famed California desert is offering up strange scenes. In California’s boom-and-bust climate, Death Valley has offered some of the strangest scenes…

When Isabella Marquez, a high school senior from the Pueblo of Laguna in New Mexico, was applying to colleges, two criteria were important to her: cost and culture. Marquez said…

Suneth Perera and Issariya Praithongyaem - BBC News Warning: This story contains details of violence, including sexual violence, which some readers may find disturbing. The name of one of the…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Every year, Alon Gat’s mother led the family’s Passover celebration of the liberation of the ancient Israelites from Egypt thousands of years ago. But this year, Gat…

Alexander Demidenko, who guided refugees back to their homeland, was arrested and tortured by Kremlin forces. One of the many he helped recalls his courage and kindness Lost and disoriented,…

George Takei was just 4 years old when when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066: "I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of War, and the Military Commanders...…

People in prison died at 3.4 times the rate of the free population, with the oldest hit hardest. New data holds lessons for preventing future deaths. The Marshall Project is…

When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months —…