A Pentagon dispute in Trump’s first war foreshadowed challenges in Iran

The Supreme Court kicks off a new term Monday that could significantly shift the law on guns, religion and immigration....

6 things to watch in the Supreme Court’s new term

The Supreme Court kicks off a new term Monday that could significantly shift the law on guns, religion and immigration....

What the science of memory tells us about sexual assault cases

The investigation into the report of a gang rape at Cornell University has reopened a national discussion on sexual assault...

Four ways the midterm elections could go, one month away

Democrats are heading into the last month of the midterm elections campaign with ambitions going deeper and deeper into red...

AI claims it can resurrect the dead. I tried it.

Sherry Turkle is the author, most recently, of “Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines,” from which...

Israel orders security review of incoming flights after co-pilot attack

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for a thorough review of “all aspects” of security of foreign civil flights to...

Bolsonaro and Lula head to runoff: 5 takeaways from Brazil’s election

SÃO PAULO — Senator Flávio Bolsonaro and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva finished first and second in the opening...

U.S. military removes bombers from U.K. base targeted in suspected terror plot

The U.S. military has removed all of its bombers from Royal Air Force Fairford, a base that authorities in the...

Trayon White took the cash. Why are many of his colleagues silent?

Chuck Thies is a D.C.-based political consultant. A hung jury could not decide whether D.C. Council member Trayon White Sr....

Christa Pike still in critical condition after botched execution, lawyer says

Christa Pike, who was sentenced to death in Tennessee for her role in a brutal 1995 murder, remains in critical...

SNL takes aim at Trump’s Republican allies with cold open

“Saturday Night Live” set the cold opening of its second episode of the season at the Republican National Committee’s offices...

As Trump rallies his base in Ohio, a Haitian migrant is laid to rest nearby

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — As Pierre Damas Bel’s father watched his firstborn’s casket being lowered into a grave, President Donald Trump’s...

He buried generations of Black Washingtonians. Now it’s time for his send-off.

As a funeral director, Richard Ables Sr. guided generations of Washingtonians through the wrenching ritual of burying loved ones, helping...

Trump’s opponents are planning efforts to reverse his changes to presidency