This principal in Nepal evacuated 900 students before flooding swept away their school
BIDUR, Nepal — Rajendra Dawadi was inside his classroom when a colleague rushed in with a warning: Floodwaters were racing through Nepal’s...
Congo authorities report more than 6,000 confirmed Ebola cases and nearly 3,000 deaths
BUNIA, Congo — Congo’s authorities said Monday that the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history has topped 6,000 cases with 2,911 deaths. More...
Can México Canta unite young Mexican Americans without corridos tumbados?
Long gone are the days of Mexican Americans’ alienation from Mexico — at least, if the Mexican government can help...
How a bootlegging schemer launched the tiki movement from his tiny Hollywood bar
Alex Lamb and Max Well didn’t set out to make a documentary. Fans of tiki bars, their goal was a...
A Jewish scholar chosen to lead the Catholic Biblical Assn. is hit by antisemitic backlash
When Amy-Jill Levine was a child in Massachusetts, a schoolmate in her predominantly Catholic hometown told her she was guilty...
Hollywood studios have sued over AI. Now Google is courting them to use its tools
Tech giant Google has been quietly making overtures to the major studios as it tries to find ways to entice...
John Malkovich is still finding new ways to be John Malkovich
John Malkovich has an affectionate habit of warning Nicoletta Peyran, his partner of more than three decades, about the various...
29 new books to keep on your radar this fall
As the lazy days of summer fade and little ones return to school, autumn invites an air of academia. Consider...
Untested in court, Trump’s new tariffs on Canada raise legal questions
WASHINGTON — In firing up a trade war with Canada, President Trump turned to a 96-year-old statute so obscure that many trade...
UCLA disciplined a pro-Palestinian protester behind closed doors. Now he’s suing
In a prolonged case that offers a rare look into the fiercely private student discipline process, a UCLA computer science...
Trump is spending billions to reverse American progress
President Trump has ordered the Navy to develop a plan to replace the electromagnetic catapults used to launch aircraft from...
Why Chris Hansen hasn’t seen the new film about ‘To Catch a Predator’
Chris Hansen has not seen “Primetime,” the A24 film in which Robert Pattinson plays him, and he probably won’t anytime...
Icelandic voters reject a proposal to restart negotiations to join the European Union
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Iceland’s voters rejected restarting negotiations to join the European Union more than a decade after previous talks ended, the...
California’s beaches are being eaten away. El Niño could redraw the coast as we know it
California’s modern coastline is under assault like never before, and El Niño is poised to make things worse. Hotter ocean...
The high-risk strategy in Tupac Shakur case: Defense says client is full of BS
Michael Sanft, the attorney for the man on trial for allegedly orchestrating the murder of Tupac Shakur, finds himself in...
