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For years, attempts within El Salvador to investigate and prosecute the masterminds of a massacre of six Jesuit priests during that countrys civil war have been delayed and deflected by legal maneuvers.

Theatre director Natalia Kaliada says she was working under lockdown long before the coronavirus pandemic, forced to work at a distance with actors and others in her native Belarus after being driven into political exile in London nearly a decade ago.

A Florida wildlife sanctuary is building a new, spacious home for former circus elephants.

Amid a flurry of major rulings early this summer, the U.S. Supreme Court in an undertheradar case handed a significant win to Native Americans by finding for the first time that almost half of Oklahoma is tribal land.

It began with devastation in the New York City area, followed by a summertime crisis in the Sun Belt. Now the coronavirus is striking cities with much smaller populations in the heartland, often in conservative corners of America where antimask sentiment...

Californias largest wildfire is threatening a marijuanagrowing enclave, and authorities said many of the locals have refused to evacuate and abandon their maturing crops even as weather forecasters predict more hot, dry and windy conditions that could fan...

Prodemocracy Hong Kong politicians staged a brief protest in the city's legislature on Friday to call for the release of 12 activists arrested by Chinese authorities at sea last month as they tried to flee to Taiwan by boat.

The hashtag #RepublicofThailand trended on Twitter in Thailand on Friday after parliament voted to push back the question of changing the constitution as protesters have demanded.

The U.S. government executed convicted murderer Christopher Vialva on Thursday, the first Black man to suffer the federal death penalty since the punishment was resumed this summer after a 17year hiatus.

The European Union has sent a mission to Venezuela in the runup to parliamentary election scheduled for December, the EU said on Thursday, as the country prepares for a vote that will likely be boycotted by much of the population.

President Donald Trump is infusing deliberations over his coming nomination of a new Supreme Court justice with political meaning as he aims to maximize the benefit before Nov. 3 and even secure an electoral backstop should the result be contested.

Five Republican U.S. senators have urged Netflix Inc to reconsider plans to adapt a Chinese sciencefiction book trilogy into a TV series because they said the author has defended the Chinese government's treatment of Uighur Muslims.

The hunter killed by a grizzly bear last weekend in a remote part of Alaska's WrangellSt. Elias National Park and Preserve was identified Thursday by park officials as a 22yearold man from Ohio.

Lawyers for former national security adviser John Bolton told a judge Thursday they want to interview White House officials following new allegations that a prepublication review of his tellall book was politicized in an effort to block its release.

Officials in Kenya say three nonMuslim bus passengers were abducted by suspected Islamic extremists in Kenya's northern Mandera county that borders Somalia.

More and more journalists have left the relative comfort of an established publication to try their luck at Substack, including culture writer Anne Helen Petersen and political writer Matt Taibbi.