After touring the two border facilities where Jakelin Caal was detained before she died, the congressional delegation called for better medical facilities and trained personnel at ports of entry.

Tens of thousands of Venezuelans have fled to the Caribbean country in recent years. Now Trinidad’s government is adopting a harder line toward the newcomers.

The New York attorney general’s office detailed what it called “a shocking pattern of illegality” and said the foundation’s decision to shutter was “an important victory for the rule of law.”

About 10,000 Jewish refugees under the age of 17 were relocated through the rescue operation. Most never saw their parents again. The Claims Conference estimates there are about 1,000 still living.

Deadly clashes in the country’s Middle Belt have skyrocketed — and a new Amnesty International report says the government is exacerbating the crisis.

The fables were gathered from people in the Congo Basin and illustrated with a touch of magical realism in the new book Congo Tales: Told By The People Of Mbomo.

The arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, followed by China’s detention of two Canadians, escalated trade and security tensions that are now leading to travel jitters.

Two years after East Liverpool, Ohio, gained notoriety from a viral photo of an overdosed couple, the community is coming to terms with its addiction problem — and taking tentative steps forward.

The decision came on the eve of the final day of open enrollment for 2019 health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act.

Germany is seeing the return of wolf packs, and with them growing political tension over whether the animals pose too much of a threat.

This week in the Russia investigations: Headlines and courtroom action are coming thick and fast in the final weeks of the year, but a core “collusion” case remains unproven.

Early in his career, iconic Indian reformer Mohandas Gandhi made remarks demeaning black Africans. After the statue was unveiled two years ago, professors started a petition calling for its removal.

Prabhu Ramamoorthy cried after the sentencing in Detroit on Thursday. His lawyers had called for leniency from the judge arguing, “He will suffer long after this sentence is done.”

After an injury forced Patricio Manuel to withdraw from the women’s Olympic boxing trials, the fighter faced a reckoning. He decided to start living publicly as a man — and rebuild his boxing career.

The president says he never directed his onetime personal attorney Michael Cohen to do anything wrong. Cohen pleaded guilty Wednesday to making illegal payments before the 2016 election.

Federal officials at the U.N. climate meeting are ignoring climate science and touting coal and fossil fuels. But local and state authorities pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on their own.

Researchers have devised a large clinical study to quickly assess whether one doctor’s apparently effective treatment for deadly sepsis is a fluke or worthy of widespread use.

Earlier this year, a federal judge dismissed the adult film star’s suit over a tweet Trump sent in April suggesting Daniels was lying about being threatened in 2011.

A father and son are part of the majority of Americans who don’t hunt and didn’t learn from their parents. So they take a class, and learn a little about hunting and a few things about themselves.

Students with campus jobs at Grinnell College want to unionize, but the college is pushing back and asking the National Labor Relations Board to reconsider an Obama-era ruling allowing such unions.

The USNS Comfort spent a week in the Caribbean caring for ailing Venezuelans who couldn’t get treatment in their troubled home country.

The Trump administration wants to substantially limit which waterways are protected under the Clean Water Act. Farmers and developers have long lobbied against the current rule as too expansive.

Something rare is stirring in Congress. There’s growing sentiment to force the president to end U.S. involvement in a war, in this case Yemen, where the U.S. military has been aiding Saudi Arabia.

Roger, who lived at The Kangaroo Sanctuary in Alice Springs, Australia, was an orphan who grew up to be an impressively ripped alpha male. Photos of his physique were popular online.

Jazz 966 is a senior center by day, but, on Friday nights, it transforms into a swinging jazz club catering to seniors who love to hear live music.

The Army general has a voracious appetite for history — and Boston sports teams. If approved by the Senate, the 60-year-old Massachusetts native will take the helm next summer.

Ethiopia has stunned the world with its reforms. Eritreans face steep challenges if they want to follow suit.

Anne-Marie Brady is a professor at the University of Canterbury, and says she has been the victim of a campaign of intimidation in her home country after publishing research critical of China.

James Alex Fields rammed his car into counterprotestors in 2017, killing Heather Heyer and injuring several other people. He was convicted of first degree murder and other charges.

The Trump administration blames unfavorable judicial rulings for encouraging an increase in illegal crossings.

A Texas prosecutor says the suspect targeted sex workers in an effort to clean the streets of Laredo. If convicted, Juan David Ortiz could face execution.

The U.S. Marine Corps has released preliminary details of an incident involving two aircraft in flight. One service member has been rescued.

The fortuitous dip in emissions of the main greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, during the past three years is over, as economies turn up. The trend in the near future looks grim, say climate scientists.

More than 12 million pounds of meat are now included in the recall. Officials say some 250 people have been sickened. They fear contaminated beef may remain in people’s freezers.

A large study of Danish kids finds that childhood infections are linked with a higher risk of developing some mental illnesses. The risk is highest in the months immediately following the infection.

It was only 10 years ago that the Castro government lifted its ban that prohibited regular citizens from buying computers. Today, phones are a key method of accessing the Internet in Cuba.