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A giant container ship remained stuck sideways on Friday in Egypt’s Suez Canal, as authorities race to free the vessel and reopen traffic in a crucial East-West waterway for global...

Thousands of people held protests against last month’s coup in the commercial capital Yangon and other cities and towns on Thursday, according to witnesses and social media posts. “Are we...

Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. We’re all stuck at...

California authorities are investigating a recent fire that destroyed a lifeguard tower painted with a rainbow in honor of LGBTQ Pride Month — a potential arson that one official called...

Netflix’s The Irregulars is a strange beast of a television series. It’s a Sherlock Holmes adaptation, a horror genre TV series, a (somewhat) historically accurate period piece, and a teen...

LONDON — The world got another warning this week about the perils of its heavy reliance on global supply chains. As a single ship ran aground in the Suez Canal,...

If there’s one thing the cursed year of 2020 has taught me, it’s that people will do anything to continue fucking. Physical intimacy was one of the major things that...

If I were writing this in Tanzania, I would quickly find myself in jail. Or vanish without a trace. Many African journalists like myself who have attempted to voice strong criticisms against their...

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign of lies about a stolen election just delivered a huge victory with a new Georgia law that could suppress the votes of many of the...

BEIJING — China on Friday announced sanctions on British individuals and entities following the U.K.’s joining the EU and others in sanctioning Chinese officials accused of human rights abuses in...