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Allying a vast military buildup on Ukraine's borders with bold security demands, the Kremlin has seized a new relevance but perhaps also given one to the Western alliance. One of…

A schism in Ger Hasidim has caused people who left to lose their jobs, communities – and sometimes their children, who are admonished to remain loyal to the rabbi at…

The mortuary habits of the Tashtyks had been known. Now archaeologists have found rare signals from their life in the early first millennium C.E.– including a unique engraved stone slab…

Throughout its 185 years, The Baltimore Sun has served an important role in Maryland: uncovering corruption, influencing policy, informing businesses and enlightening communities. But legacies like ours are often complicated.…

Despite some signs of progress in ending the political, economic and humanitarian crisis that has worsened across Haiti since the assassination of its president last year, the situation there remains…

With tensions continuing to mount over the Ukraine crisis, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Friday that he still believed military conflict in Europe “will not happen” – although if it did,…

Attacks on kindergartens and schools have been a sad reality for children in eastern Ukraine over the last eight years, the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, said on Friday. Since the…

Parents and lawmakers are ramping up legislation that could remove hundreds of books from public-school curricula and library shelves. On Wednesday, PEN America announced that the CEO of Penguin Random House…

Patricia Guerrero, a Mexican American from California, has been nominated to serve as an associate justice of the California Supreme Court. Patricia Guerrero, a justice for the California 4th District…