A fast-moving, rapidly growing wildfire erupted Saturday and expanded to more than 8,788 acres by Sunday morning in northwest Boulder County, Colo., prompting the evacuation of at least 3,000 people…

A Mexican restaurant in a small town in Iowa has wrapped itself in the middle of political discourse after some customers of the popular eatery took offense to a yard…

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Hundreds of Thai anti-government protesters demonstrated in Bangkok on Sunday, again defying a ban on protests against Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha and the powerful monarchy. Demonstrations have…

People of faith should embody moral and intellectual integrity. In public, Donald Trump has spoken in glowing terms about his evangelical supporters, calling them “warriors on the frontiers defending American…

Pandemic czar says quarantine to be shortened to 12 days ■ Senior PLO official Saeb Erekat in critical condition ■ Preschools reopen, movement restrictions canceled ■ Violating restrictions, Haredim reopen…

Thawing permafrost onland raises tsunami risk, of all things. And: why hominin evolution has a sobering insight for us. All this and more in this week’s Haaretz climate change briefs…

They were coming for the governor. Armed white supremacist militias had repeatedly disrupted elections and rattled the government, and now they wanted to take the state’s chief executive into custody.…

March 2011. The Arab Spring was in full force. The Libyan Civil War intensifying. And then, on the 11th day of the month, the fourth most powerful earthquake ever recorded…

Shelby Parker planned to get pregnant this year. The timing seemed right: She was working as a middle school teacher in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, a job that provided benefits for…

Preterm birth before 28 weeks of gestation may be linked to childhood depression, suggests a study in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Subina Upadhyaya, M.P.H., and colleagues…