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War in Sudan has taken more dangerous turn as evidence of war crimes, other atrocities emerge

The disease has killed at least 1,700 people in Malawi over the past three years

But National Weather Service predicts dangerous conditions will return next week 

The first three years of the Biden administration saw an immigration surge at a level last seen in the 1850s. How did that historical wave of immigration differ from today's, and what lessons does it hold?

MADRID — Venezuela and Cuba this week released political prisoners, including a free speech advocate, but analysts say the threat of legal action in authoritarian countries stifles media freedom. In Venezuela on Thursday, Carlos Correa, director of the free speech organization Espacio Publico, was freed after a week in custody, his group reported. Authorities had arrested Correa along with at least six others, including opposition politicians, ahead of President Nicolas Maduro’s...

International delegations are expected to attend a Jan. 27 ceremony commemorating 80 years since the death camp's liberation

U.S. Pacific Air Forces says it is making airfields resilient against attacks amid concerns of vulnerability to Chinese strikes 

For nearly three years, a combat medic from California named Jennifer Mullee has been saving the lives of Ukrainian soldiers on the frontlines. Mullee decided to join the Ukrainian war effort following the death of a close friend. Anna Kosstutschenko has her story. Camera: Pavel Suhodolskiy  

Temperatures on the day of the ceremony are expected to be the lowest since President Ronald Reagan’s second swearing-in was moved indoors 40 years ago

Washington — The U.S. Treasury department on Friday sanctioned Singaporean Yin Kechen and cybersecurity company Sichuan Juxinhe Network Technology Co., accusing both of being involved in a series of hacks against American telecom companies.  The intrusions, known under the name "Salt Typhoon," have allegedly exposed a huge swathe of Americans' call logs to Chinese spies and rattled the U.S. intelligence community. In some cases, the hackers are alleged to have intercepted conversations,...

The Open Notebook, a site focusing on educating journalists who cover science, has complied a list of U.S. graduate program financial aid information for international students. Read it here.

Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld the federal law banning TikTok beginning Sunday unless it's sold by its China-based parent company, holding that the risk to national security posed by its ties to China overcomes concerns about limiting speech by the app or its 170 million users in the United States.  A sale does not appear imminent and, although experts have said the app will not disappear from existing users' phones once the law takes effect on Jan. 19, new...

The department will be central to Trump's plans for mass deportations and tightened access at the border

Cybercrime, national security laws are some of the tactics used to target journalists across Africa, report by Committee to Protect Journalists finds

Israeli bombardment and ground operations have transformed entire neighborhoods in several cities into rubble-strewn wastelands, with blackened shells of buildings and mounds of debris stretching away in all directions

Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said the Army is on pace to bring in 61,000 young people by the end of the fiscal year in September and will have more than 20,000 additional young people signed up in the delayed entry program for 2026

Biden says he is seeking to undo "disproportionately long sentences compared to the sentences they would receive today under current law, policy, and practice"