Since 2020, teaching critical race theory (CRT) in schools has been a large topic of debate, particularly in conservative states.  CRT is an academic and legal framework that denotes racism as a systemic...

Despite being under a cloud of corruption charges, in November Benjamin Netanyah won a tight race to become Israel’s Prime Minister again. Sworn into office for an unprecedented sixth term on Dec. 29,...

Since the end of the Korean War in 1953, North Korea has been seeking to unify the peninsula under their authoritarian regime.  At the end of December, the North Korean Workers’ Party met for a five...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government bumped up against its debt limit Thursday, prompting the Treasury Department to take “extraordinary” accounting steps to avoid default — as friction between...

“God’s Rottweiler,” “The Enforcer,” “Cardinal No and The Hammer.” Former Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who died on Saturday Dec. 31 at age 95, both embodied and contradicted the connotations...

Amid persistent political turmoil in Brazil, thousands of Brazilian insurrectionists stormed the capital, Brasilia, on Jan. 8 in a protest of an alleged stolen election. With the Brazilian congress and...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday that inaction by the country’s former president and four others led to Easter Sunday bomb attacks in 2019 that killed nearly 270...

Uprooted trees, dark buildings and streets filled with brown, murky water have become a daily occurrence for Californians. A combination of earthquakes, cyclones and storms over the past few weeks have...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden conferred high honors on those who stood against the Jan. 6 Capitol mob two years ago and the menacing effort in state after state to upend the election, declaring...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Jair Bolsonaro told supporters that the future could only bring him three possibilities: arrest, death or a second term as Brazil’s president. None of those outcomes came...

Former President Donald J. Trump announced his run for the Presidency in the 2024 general election, on Nov. 15, from his Mar-a-Lago estate. This will be Trump’s third consecutive run for president. This...

Yumary Briseño looked at her 12-year-old daughter. Her tender eyes gazing up at her, filled with worry.  “Mom, I’m hungry.” Briseño gave her daughter the only food she had in her home—a...