LONDON (Reuters) - When the Paris Agreement on climate change was finalized after two weeks of fraught negotiations and years of past failures, diplomats hugged and shed tears of joy.…

Gov't says it's safe to return refugees who fled fighting to region's camps but UN calls move 'absolutely unacceptable'. Ethiopia’s government has said it is returning Eritrean refugees to camps…

This year, we got to know our Solar System a little better. For millennia, humans have believed the Earth or the Sun occupied the center of the Solar System, but…

Updated at 5:53 p.m. ET Editor's note: This is a story about the pervasive nature of racial insensitivity in America and how it persists to this day, and contains terms…

While a civilian board can prosecute misconduct cases involving NYPD officers, the police commissioner has the final word. Frequently, that power is used to reduce penalties. New York City’s Civilian…

After a career spent writing about military conflict, historian Margaret MacMillan has written a work exploring the benefits that war can bring to mankind. She's far from a warmonger, but…

But the Base, a terror group that has been the recent recipient of a lot of FBI attention, turned him down. The one-time leader and former lawyer of the Proud…

Ahead of next year’s UN Climate Change conference (AKA COP26), female climate leaders have banded together to ask: where are all the women? In a campaign launched today, more than…

At issue is whether grassroots energy can translate to influence inside the Beltway — and at what cost. The Black Lives Matter movement is buckling under the strain of its…

In the Netherlands, proving that the Nazis stole artwork from your family isn’t always enough to claim it back. Departing from norms across Europe, the kingdom’s policy is to weigh the…