The standoff between authorities and an armed, barricaded woman along a busy Virginia highway eclipsed more than 30 hours late Wednesday. According to the Fairfax County Police Department, the standoff began about…
CHESTERFIELD, Va. – Hundreds of mourners joined family and friends of Irvo Otieno Wednesday to celebrate his life and call for reform in mental health care for minorities in the wake…
Hundreds of people gathered Wednesday at a candlelight vigil in Nashville. First lady Jill Biden and singer Sheryl Crow were among those attending, as were civic leaders including the mayor…
After a mass shooting at an elementary school in Texas last year prompted calls for new gun restrictions, Republican-led states around the country moved in the other direction. One of…
CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico — Mexican officials announced on Wednesday that they were investigating a fire at a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juárez as a homicide case, saying that government workers and…
WASHINGTON — The mass shooting at a Christian elementary school in Nashville this week has generated a broad shrugging of the shoulders in Washington, from President Biden to Republicans in…
Yves here. As much as the overall picture for worker rights seems grim, the flip side is concerted pushback is finally producing some reversals of long-standing cuts in rights, as…
Yves here. This post shows how the French revolt against Macron’s dictatorial raising of retirement ages is already having economic effects beyond France. Admittedly the changes so far are only…
By Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Baker Institute Fellow for Kuwait, Rice University. Originally published at The Conversation. The fact that Saudi Arabia entered a rapprochement deal with Iran and chose China…
We should judge a nation by a simple metric: the number of weeping parents it allows, the small caskets it tolerates.