Days After Trump-Led Peace Talks, New Congolese City Falls to Rebels
A rebel militia backed by Rwanda announced on Wednesday that it had seized the city of Uvira in the Democratic...
George Altman, Slugger in Negro Leagues, M.L.B. and Japan, Dies at 92
George Altman, who had one of the most diverse careers in baseball history, starting in the waning days of the...
What Democrats Can Learn from Biden’s Border Mistakes
Five years ago, at the outset of his presidency, Joe Biden had a decision to make: How should he navigate...
Trump Administration Opens Applications for Million-Dollar Visas
The Trump administration debuted a website on Wednesday that opens up applications for a “gold card,” an expedited visa that...
How to Fight Rising Utility Bills? Take Over the Company, Activists Say.
Everyone complains about their energy bills, but few take any action. In New York’s Hudson Valley, a coalition of officials,...
Wyoming Cowboys Are Breaking Down Barriers, Literally
On an unusually warm November morning on Pitchfork Ranch in northwestern Wyoming, wranglers coaxed hundreds of cows, one at a...
Venezuela’s Nobel Winner Ups the Ante in Standoff With Maduro
The decision by María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader, to leave her homeland after more than a year in...
Pacific Northwest Faces Some of Its Worst Flooding in Decades This Week
Forecasters on Wednesday warned of the possibility for “catastrophic flooding” in Western Washington, with some rivers projected to reach record...
Stephen Downing, Police Officer Who Wrote for TV, Dies at 87
Stephen Downing, a Los Angeles Police Department officer who moonlighted as a writer of police dramas on television and later,...
After Shutdown, Democrats Claim Credit for Funding They Opposed
Representative Laura Gillen, Democrat of New York, arrived at a fire department in her Long Island district last week bearing...
The End of an Era at One of America’s Most Famous Artist Retreats
Elaina Richardson sipped from a cup of tea in her office in a converted stable in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. To...
13 Charged in Gang-Related Attack That Killed 16-Year-Old in Harlem
When a 16-year-old boy was found unconscious in a Harlem park last summer, blocks from his home, the police were...
$2 Billion in Pentagon Funds Said to Go to Anti-Immigrant Operations
A group of Democratic lawmakers said in a report released on Wednesday that the Pentagon had diverted at least $2...
Judge Emil Bove Faces Ethics Complaint for Attending Trump Rally
Judge Emil Bove III, a federal appeals court judge who made his career as a stalwart supporter of President Trump,...
A Controversial Nobel Peace Prize
A contentious peace prize winner María Corina Machado, Venezuela’s de facto opposition leader, was awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize...
