A baby girl dies in the haze of Gaza
A skinny boy named Ammar, who is 12 but looks much younger, spent Monday playing with his sister’s 10-month-old daughter, Layla, at the cramped apartment where they both lived in...
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Trump’s backing of Iranian protesters could backfire as Tehran cracks down
On issues from climate change to healthcare, there are few things President Trump relishes more than doing the opposite of something his predecessor did. Now an eruption of anti-government protests...
Islamic State’s self-styled capital is in ruins and its population scattered. Who will rebuild Raqqah?
The crowd was seething with frustration. “We want to go inside!” one man yelled. “They told us when Raqqah is liberated we can go home.” Some of the U.S.-backed fighters...
Saudi prince’s arrest could be felt as far as Silicon Valley and Wall Street
Finance, technology, hospitality, entertainment and real estate: Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has invested substantially and with great fanfare in all of them, as befits his status as one of the...
Fearful of Trump’s America, asylum seekers from across the globe stream into Canada
Fearful of Trump's America, asylum seekers from across the globe stream into Canada By Alexandra Zavis | Photography by Carolyn Cole Sept. 15, 2017 | Reporting from Hemmingford, Canada Sgt....
Kentucky could become first state with no abortion clinics
In the 37 years that Dr. Ernest Marshall has been performing abortions in Kentucky, he has seen more than a dozen clinics close in the state. He is now facing...
Here’s what you need to know about the government report on climate change. For starters, it’s real.
The conclusions contained in a draft federal report on climate change are unequivocal: Human-induced global warming is real, and left unchecked, the consequences could be dire. Although not new, the...
How doctors in Texas are trying to protect transgender patients from a persistent threat: HIV
When the Kind Clinic began offering free or low-cost hormone therapy for transgender people in March, word spread quickly here. Within days, the service was booked up until the end...
Cleveland shooting is latest in string of brutal crimes broadcast live on social media
Four assailants tied up an 18-year-old mentally disabled man, taped his mouth and slashed at his scalp with a knife as he cowered in a corner. A group of men...
The latest battlefront in the abortion wars: Regulations to bury or cremate fetuses
Tucked against a fence in an East Los Angeles cemetery, a long, flat headstone reads: "In memory of the 16,500 precious unborn, buried here, Oct. 6, 1985." The aborted fetuses...