Month: November 2024

After nearly 60 years, the Botswana Democratic Party lost its majority in Parliament, becoming the latest long-dominant party in southern Africa to fall from power.

The government, its makeup in flux after the governing party lost seats this week, will soon need to make decisions that will shape Japan’s future nuclear policy.

After a white appraiser slashed the value of a Black woman’s duplex, the Justice Department sued all involved in the assessment, including the nation’s largest lender.

Mr. Penny is charged with manslaughter in the May 2023 killing of Jordan Neely, whom he put in a chokehold in a subway car. Video of the incident spread online.

Troubling patterns across the Riverside County jail system put detainees at risk.

After Sheynnis Palacios won the Miss Universe title, her country’s government arrested the family members of the Miss Nicaragua contest director, and she hasn’t returned home since.

From his home in Tennessee, the social media rabble-rouser Robby Starbuck is waging war on “woke” policies at places like Lowe’s and Ford. His timing is impeccable.

Human rights watchdogs say Azerbaijan is in the midst of a vicious campaign of repression. But in global geopolitics, this energy-rich Caucasus country now has a lot of leverage.

The state looms large in the sport’s history, and its tracks are stunning. But horse racing in California is going broke.

The transition from democracy to autocracy is a process, not an on-off switch.