Police ordered the public to disperse from downtown Los Angeles after further unrest, with security forces firing tear gas at ...

Spain began investigating Tuesday the causes of the crippling blackout that disrupted millions of lives across the Iberian Peninsula, with a court probing potential “sabotage” of critical ...

An international summit on the future of energy security opens in London on Thursday amidst major disagreements over the role of renewables in satisfying the world’s thirst for energy. The two-day ...

Hopes were fading Monday of finding more survivors in the rubble of Mandalay, where some residents spent a third night sleeping in the open after a massive earthquake killed at least 1,700 people in ...

As fate would have it, the day I heard the sad but unsurprising news about Alexei Navalny’s murder death in an Arctic gulag prison, I was reading the riveting account of modern-day Russia by ...

A Palestinian gunman killed seven people outside an east Jerusalem synagogue during the Jewish Sabbath on Friday, in one of the deadliest attacks targeting Israelis in years that risked sparking ...

Ph.D. student at American University’s School of Public Affairs in the Justice, Law, and Criminology Program. Her research interests are political violence, terrorism, terrorist groups’ behaviors and ...

Myanmar’s military regime has detained a staffer from the Open Society Foundations philanthropy network, the organization said in a statement urging the employee’s release. Open Society, founded by ...

For much of American history, immigrants have been depicted through a lens of suspicion, investigated, and even criminalized. This distorted outlook is rooted in nativist assumptions that have ...

As a historian working on 19th-century US history projects over the past couple of years, I have read numerous scholarly books and articles on the last two decades of the Antebellum and subsequent ...

A report released by the UN Tuesday revealed North Korean women undergo forced labor, sexual violence, and forced abortion and infanticide in the country’s detention centers. The report acknowledges ...