When President Salva Kiir of South Sudan announced a panel to prepare for long-delayed elections in his country, one name...

The conditions that set off Tuesday’s avalanche were put in motion weeks ago. The same weather pattern that plunged the...

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The Rev. Jesse Jackson was always a standout in the way he dressed. But whom he dressed for, and why,...

David Hays, an esteemed set and lighting designer for theater who also became an innovative impresario as the founding artistic...

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An Associated Press reporter was beaten by the police and detained along with three other journalists on Tuesday in Cameroon...

The police seemed stumped. Nancy Guthrie had been kidnapped in the night and investigators had no idea who was responsible....

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A half-dozen senior executives at Southern California Edison and its parent company will lose an estimated $2 million in bonuses...

A Kiss Across Cultures My baby is sandwiched between her grandpas: a Brooklyn-born Jew and a Vietnamese immigrant, each planting...