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Nov 24, 2020
Dinkins served only one term before his defeat against Rudolph W. Giuliani, leaving behind a complicated legacy.
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Nov 23, 2020
Biden picks California attorney Alejandro Mayorkas to lead the Homeland Security department. He would be the first Latino to hold the post.
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Nov 23, 2020
With Georgia's GOP feuding since Joe Biden won there, a question looms: Can it unite to help two senators win runoffs that will decide which party runs the Senate?
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Nov 22, 2020
Clara Margossian, 102, built a life in Fresno after her family fled the Armenian genocide. With the war in Nagorno-Karabakh, she has given $1 million to help Armenia, a homeland she's never seen.
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Nov 22, 2020
Clara Margossian, 102, built a life in Fresno after her family fled the Armenian genocide. With the war in Nagorno-Karabakh, she has given $1 million to help Armenia, a homeland she's never seen.
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Nov 22, 2020
President Trump's plan to abandon Afghanistan — again — risks turning a disaster into a catastrophe.
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Nov 22, 2020
The U.S. decision to drop drug trafficking charges against Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos shines a light on Mexico's increasingly powerful military.
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Nov 21, 2020
Mexico last week passed two somber coronavirus markers, exceeding 100,000 deaths and 1 million infections. The grim statistics brought renewed political wrangling about how the country's leadership has handled the pandemic.
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Nov 21, 2020
A system of pooled coronavirus tests to catch asymptomatic infections among Duke University students helped keep the campus open in the midst of the pandemic.
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Nov 20, 2020
Only a few people really know who will end up serving in President Biden's administration — and they aren't saying.
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Nov 20, 2020
President Trump again pushed false election fraud claims Friday while President-elect Joe Biden met with Democratic leaders in Congress.
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Nov 20, 2020
Facebook and Twitter could ban a civilian Trump from their platforms — but they probably won't
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Nov 20, 2020
The BBC has launched a probe into Martin Bashir's 1995 interview with Princess Diana in which she dropped bombshell revelations about the royal family.
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Nov 20, 2020
In the Gansu province, China promises a better future to Muslim minorities — if they trade their devotion to faith for devotion to the Communist Party.
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Nov 20, 2020
In the Gansu province, China promises a better future to Muslim minorities — if they trade their devotion to faith for devotion to the Communist Party.
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Nov 20, 2020
Joe Biden, who will be the oldest U.S. president to take office, celebrates his 78th birthday.
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Nov 20, 2020
Joe Biden will be the oldest U.S. president to take office. We take a look back at his life in photos.
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Nov 20, 2020
Bollywood, the world's biggest movie industry, is toning down its lavish productions as India endures one of the planet's worst COVID-19 outbreaks.
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Nov 20, 2020
The Vatican is looking into how Pope Francis' official Instagram account came to "like" a photo of a Brazilian model given to wearing thong bikinis.
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Nov 20, 2020
The U.S. decision to drop drug trafficking charges against Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos shines a light on Mexico's increasingly powerful military.
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Nov 20, 2020
The U.S. decision to drop drug trafficking charges against Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda shines a light on Mexico's increasingly powerful military.
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Nov 20, 2020
The U.S. decision to drop drug trafficking charges against Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos shines a light on Mexico's increasingly powerful military.
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Nov 20, 2020
A clinical trial of the coronavirus-fighting ability of face masks had inconclusive results, but researchers say it strengthens the case for universal mask use.
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Nov 19, 2020
Rudolph W. Giuliani announced an outlandish new Trump strategy to overturn Joe Biden's victory while Biden met with governors of both parties amid growing recognition of his election.
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Nov 19, 2020
The United States, India and Brazil have the most infections and the most deaths.
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Nov 19, 2020
For Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu, navigating a Biden presidency poses a challenge after going all in with Trump.
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Nov 19, 2020
Biden's ability to restore normalcy in government will rely heavily on his ability to revitalize key agencies, starting with the State Department.
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Nov 19, 2020
Biden's ability to restore normalcy in government will rely heavily on his ability to revitalize key agencies, starting with the State Department.
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Nov 19, 2020
The charges against activist Jolovan Wham reflect the zeal with which Singapore enforces its laws against protest.
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Nov 19, 2020
Paramahansa Yogananda found in Los Angeles the perfect home base for an organization which remains a worldwide spiritual force to this day.
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Nov 19, 2020
Mexican authorities pressed the United States to drop the drug-trafficking case against retired Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, and on Wednesday they got their wish.
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Nov 19, 2020
China has increasingly wielded its economic power against neighboring nations. It can keep tourists away and hold trade hostage while forcing new calculations in diplomacy and international investment.
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Nov 19, 2020
China has increasingly wielded its economic power against neighboring nations. It can keep tourists away and hold trade hostage while forcing new calculations in diplomacy and international investment.
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Nov 19, 2020
In U.S.-China dispute over missile defense system, Beijing punishes South Korea by restricting tourism and holding trade hostage.
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Nov 19, 2020
Safe distancing ambassadors help ensure Singaporeans are observing health guidelines to maintain the country's success in curbing cases of COVID-19.
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Nov 19, 2020
Safe distancing ambassadors help ensure Singaporeans are observing health guidelines to maintain the country's success in curbing cases of COVID-19.
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Nov 18, 2020
There are still many unknowns when it comes to the pandemic, but the early signs of success for two experimental COVID-19 vaccines make a few things clear.
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Nov 18, 2020
Both Republican and Democratic camps in Georgia embrace running as teams, framing their campaigns around what they can accomplish — or stop — together.
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Nov 18, 2020
Cloth mask, surgical mask, N95, bandanna: Rules on face coverings vary widely, and public health experts say standardization is needed to fight COVID-19.
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Nov 18, 2020
In his surprisingly confessional book "A Promised Land," Obama dissects his failures as well as his successes. It offers great advice for a new president.
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Nov 18, 2020
ICE is deporting women from a Georgia detention center who have alleged medical abuse against a gynecologist, despite an ongoing criminal investigation.
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Nov 18, 2020
The monarch's girlfriend, the first royal consort in a century, has taken on an unusually public role as protests demand limits on his powers.
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Nov 17, 2020
Records show Customs and Border Protection detained 277 citizens in January, when some Iranian Americans reported being held — and show CBP officials falsely denied ordering detention of citizens of certain national origins.
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Nov 17, 2020
Even with a Democratic president, Nancy Pelosi faces a tougher term as speaker than she did under President Trump due to her party's narrower majority in the U.S. House.
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Nov 17, 2020
Even with a Democratic president, Nancy Pelosi faces a tougher term as speaker than she did under President Trump due to her party's narrower majority in the U.S. House.
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Nov 17, 2020
Even with a Democratic president, Nancy Pelosi faces a tougher term as speaker than she did under President Trump due to her party's narrower majority in the U.S. House.
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Nov 17, 2020
The U.S. decision to drop charges against a former Mexican defense chief flies in the face of long-standing skepticism about Mexico's justice system.
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Nov 17, 2020
A Senate panel is calling on the Facebook and Twitter CEOs to defend their handling of disinformation in the race between President Trump and Joe Biden.
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Nov 17, 2020
At President Trump's order and despite Pentagon skepticism, acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller announced a cut in troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Nov 16, 2020
"A Promised Land," out Tuesday in a worldwide release, eloquently and ruefully documents the first two and a half years of Obama's presidency.
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Nov 16, 2020
More than 250,000 Ethiopian immigrants and their children live in the United States — more than from any other African country except Nigeria. More live in California than any other state.
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Nov 16, 2020
Africa's second-most populous nation and its northern Tigray region wage war against each other in a clash that threatens to send millions of civilians fleeing for safety into politically fragile neighboring countries.
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Nov 16, 2020
Africa's second-most populous nation and its northern Tigray region wage war against each other in a clash that threatens to send millions of civilians fleeing for safety into politically fragile neighboring countries.
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Nov 16, 2020
The election of Joe Biden has only antagonized Portland anarchists — and exposed their differences with the Black activists they claim to support.
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Nov 16, 2020
Young Afghans fear losing new freedoms and their lives to the Taliban as U.S. troops prepare to exit.
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Nov 16, 2020
Young Afghans fear losing new freedoms and their lives to the Taliban as U.S. troops prepare to exit.
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Nov 15, 2020
President-elect Joe Biden won his race by performing strongly in suburbs, building large margins among Black voters and chipping into Trump territory.
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Nov 15, 2020
President-elect Joe Biden and his aides have staked out positions that chart a markedly different course from that of the Obama team they worked on four years ago.
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Nov 15, 2020
Joe Biden's election is just the latest power shift in two decades of volatility.
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Nov 15, 2020
President-elect Joe Biden is expected to return to long-held norms on multilateral policy in Latin America — including a shift in tone and more predictable foreign policy moves.
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Nov 14, 2020
Despite surpassing 1 million coronavirus cases, one thing was clear: Texas, like much of the nation, is overwhelmed by a virus that is more stubborn than the will of many quarantine-fatigued Americans who want to wish it away.
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Nov 14, 2020
As Texas surpasses 1 million coronavirus cases, the state, like much of the nation, is overwhelmed by a virus that is more stubborn than the will of many quarantine-fatigued Americans who want to wish it away.
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Nov 13, 2020
President Trump charted a whipsaw course in relations with North Korea, going from alarming nuclear tests and brash threats to friendly summits with Kim Jong Un. President-elect Biden has not ruled out meeting with Kim but has signaled he'd revert to a more patient, measured approach.
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Nov 13, 2020
Do union organizers have a right to go on agricultural land, or does that violate private property rights? The Supreme Court will decide.
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Nov 13, 2020
Georgia has long been a reliably red Southern state. Biden becomes the first Democratic presidential candidate to win it since 1992.
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Nov 13, 2020
Georgia has long been a reliably red Southern state. Biden becomes the first Democratic presidential candidate to win it since 1992.
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Nov 13, 2020
What makes some COVID-19 patients so much sicker than others? In some cases, people are more vulnerable because their immune systems are hit by friendly fire.
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Nov 13, 2020
President-elect Biden faces the huge challenge of rallying a divided public behind a unified push to wear masks and take other basic steps to control the coronavirus.
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Nov 13, 2020
A small lab tries to alter one gene of the coronavirus, hoping that change will offer a way to kill it.
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Nov 13, 2020
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake was reported at 1:13 a.m. Friday 111 miles from Carson City, Nev., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Nov 12, 2020
Joe Biden's presidential win won't heal all transatlantic rifts but may offer a welcome balm to many.
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Nov 12, 2020
Beijing's aggressive South China Sea expansion shows its willingness to defy international laws for President Xi Jinping's visions of power.
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Nov 12, 2020
In 2016, Trump lost all 18 Texas counties where Latinos make up at least 80% of the population. This time he won five of them and closed the gap considerably in the rest.
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Nov 11, 2020
In Congress, Republicans and Democrats remain at odds over a COVID-19 relief plan.
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Nov 11, 2020
Joe Biden has chosen his longtime advisor Ron Klain to run his White House, making his first personnel pick since becoming president-elect.
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Nov 11, 2020
How will Joe Biden handle the sensitive relationship between superpower rivals China and the U.S.?
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Nov 11, 2020
Images from around the nation mark quiet observances on Veterans Day.
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Nov 11, 2020
Can you have Thanksgiving during the COVID-19 pandemic? Researchers have created an interactive map that estimates the risk you'll face in any county.
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Nov 11, 2020
A winter surge of COVID-19 is now unavoidable, experts say, though its magnitude depends on what we do next. Hundreds of thousands of lives hang in the balance.
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Nov 11, 2020
He'll leave the White House, but Trump isn't going away. His toxic politics will haunt the GOP and the country for years to come.
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Nov 11, 2020
He'll leave the White House, but Trump isn't going away. His toxic politics will haunt the GOP and the country for years to come.
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Nov 11, 2020
The mass resignation came after Hong Kong's pro-Beijing government ousted four pro-democracy lawmakers from the city's Legislative Council.
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Nov 10, 2020
Joe Biden called President Trump's claims of victory "an embarrassment" that will tarnish his legacy, and said the work of the transition of power would go on.
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Nov 10, 2020
Deaf Americans are picking a new name for President-elect Joe Biden, but some complain that it looks like a gang sign.
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Nov 10, 2020
Around the world, some leaders balk at congratulating Biden
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Nov 10, 2020
Armenia and Azerbaijan enlist artists, lobbyists and online activists in a 21st century propaganda war in their fight over Nagorno-Karabakh.
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Nov 10, 2020
Arguably the most internationally recognized Palestinian figure for decades, after Yasser Arafat, Erekat contracted COVID-19.
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Nov 09, 2020
As Biden leads Trump in Georgia, Republicans in the secretary of state's office rebut accusations of fraud from their political bedfellows.
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Nov 09, 2020
As Biden leads Trump in Georgia, Republicans in the secretary of state's office rebut accusations of fraud from their political bedfellows.
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Nov 09, 2020
The country is facing its third major surge of COVID-19 infections.
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Nov 09, 2020
The country is facing its third major surge of COVID-19 infections.
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Nov 09, 2020
President Trump moved quickly to fire the defense secretary he derided as "Yesper" after Joe Biden declared victory in the 2020 election.
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Nov 09, 2020
Disgraced human rights icon Aung San Suu Kyi sweeps an election in which more than 1.5 million ethnic-minority residents were barred from voting.
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Nov 09, 2020
Deadly fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh has caused grief and anger. But for many Azerbaijanis displaced by the conflict, it's also brought hope.
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Nov 08, 2020
As world leaders hastened to congratulate Joe Biden, Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador waited more than seven hours before commenting, then said he was waiting it out. President Trump, he noted, had been "respectful" of Mexico. Critics said he was de facto endorsing Trump's refusal to acknowledge defeat.
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Nov 08, 2020
Trump team readies blitz of vote challenges, but a few GOP figures congratulate Biden.
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Nov 08, 2020
The nation's capital took to the streets Saturday to exalt and exhale.
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Nov 07, 2020
How crucial was the 2020 election to the LGBTQ community? It felt the same terror about its future that reproductive rights advocates felt another four years of Trump would mean for Roe vs. Wade.
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Nov 07, 2020
Joe Biden's long-awaited victory did not prevent President Trump from falsely claiming that he won the election.
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Nov 07, 2020
Joe Biden's long-awaited victory did not prevent President Trump from falsely claiming that he won the election.
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