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A group of Republicans and Democrats have begun an urgent set of talks aimed at reaching an elusive compromise on new gun laws. After a decade of failure, can this time be different?

Sergey Lavrov rails at economic sanctions imposed on Moscow over Ukraine invasion, claims Western nations stoking ‘Russophobia’

Karmila Purba revs her motorbike under the lights of an Indonesian night carnival and rides up horizontally inside a wooden cylinder called Satan’s Barrel, drawing gasps from spectators looking down into the drum. With a smile on her face, Purba

Beijing’s propaganda machine has outwitted the UN human rights chief on her visit to China, campaigners say, leaving the envoy accused of playing a role in whitewashing abuses against minorities in Xinjiang. Michelle Bachelet’s long-planned trip this week has taken

Russia on Thursday made an all-out effort to capture the rest of the industrial region of Lugansk in eastern Ukraine, officials said, as President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Moscow of seeking to commit “genocide” across the eastern Donbas. As the fighting

Fierce fighting raged in the Donbas region, with Russian forces engaging in street battles in the city of Severodonetsk as Moscow brought to bear its advantage in firepower on outgunned Ukrainian defenders.

Reports identity 5-member team as part of mobster Shalom Domrani’s organization, which is feuding with Benny Shlomo’s crime family

Author Rich Cohen’s latest book, ‘The Adventures of Herbie Cohen,’ is part biography and part family memoir, centering on his father, an international deal-making guru

Through careful analysis of oven placement and grindstones, archaeologist Prof. Jennie Ebeling shows how women in antiquity had much more agency than previously thought

China’s global campaign to expand the reach of its political positions is helping it secure a coveted piece of online real estate: first-page search results on Google and other major Western portals.