More Democratic candidates who call themselves progressive entered the ring in 2018 than in the past several campaigns, but they’re not all running on the full Bernie Sanders agenda.

The retired army captain has expressed admiration for the country’s brutal 1964-1985 dictatorship; made incendiary remarks about women, minorities and LGBT people; and decried “fake news.”

The Lion Air Boeing 737-800 crashed into the sea shortly after leaving Jakarta’s international airport. Indonesian television showed video of an oil slick and debris field.

The Red Sox closed the series game 5-1 on the Dodgers’ home turf Sunday. A leadoff home run from Steve Pearce and strong pitching from David Price helped Boston land their fourth title in 15 years.

IBM will acquire Red Hat for $190 per share, in a deal worth approximately $34 billion. Both companies took pains to say the Red Hat ethos and commitment to open source would continue.

The website, which has served as a home for the far-right online community, is now down after various platforms refused to host it.

The 11 people who were killed on Saturday ranged in age from 54 to 97. Two of them were brothers, and two were a married couple. Here are some of their stories.

Victims range in age from 54 to 97. Robert Bowers , 46, has been charged with 29 separate federal crimes for his attack on the Tree of Life synagogue.

Scientists credit the crab and oyster industries with noticing a change in oxygen levels in coastal Pacific waters.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been charging a record number of people with so-called “voter fraud” in the state, which is something voting experts say is extremely rare.

It’s been a welcome alternative for Somalis in Mogadishu. But now, says its founder, it may have to cut back.

The Red Sox are one win away from their ninth World Series title after defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers 9-6 on their home turf Saturday night.

After a move to New York in the late ’60s, the clear-toned Fortune became a versatile fixture on the broad landscape of modern jazz.

Vitriolic tweets and pro-Trump social media posts add context to the background of Cesar Altieri Sayoc, the man in connection with the homemade pipe bombs sent to top Democrats and liberal donors.

After receiving a Justice Department request for a new 2020 census question, the Census Bureau came up with another way to generate more accurate citizenship data. The DOJ refused to meet about it.

A recent book recounts the brutal lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955. In it, the woman who accused the boy of assault admits she was lying. The FBI has reopened the murder investigation.

The speculation surrounding a string of mail bombs harks back to another era in American history, when bombs were a tool of political intimidation and when bombings were blamed on the victims.

The NSA and U.S. Cyber Command can exercise near-godlike omniscience over the Internet. A recent report from The New York Times provides some insight into what they’re doing with it.

This October, the Senate Judiciary Committee has, for the first time ever, held judicial nomination hearings during a recess of the Senate — over the objections of the minority party.

People have been dressing up in costumes inspired by diseases for a long, long time. See if you can ace our quiz.

Frustrated that Congress hasn’t repealed the Affordable Care Act, the administration continues to make moves that chip away at the ACA’s nationwide protections and give states more control.

Also in our weekly roundup, rural teens are experiencing homelessness, and four universities are suing the federal government over international student immigration rules.

Sure, you want your house to look as scary as possible. But certain haunting images are better left in the past.

Dodgers starter Walker Buehler threw seven powerful innings, but Boston outfielder Jackie Bradley Jr.’s solo home run matched Los Angeles’ meager production. It took 10 more innings to break the tie.

The Florida man charged on Friday ran afoul of the law for decades and was arrested for a slew of crimes, including larceny, drug possession and making a bomb threat.

Most recent data shows the law enforcement arm of U.S. Postal Service opened 19 cases related to suspicious items or substances. That’s decline from four years earlier when they probed more than 200.

The city’s slow recovery after ISIS rule is causing anger among residents who say they’re left with little help from the countries that destroyed Raqqa.

The Philadelphia Flyers’ mascot looks like something that would hide under your bed as a child. “Gritty may be a hideous monster,” says the city’s official resolution, “but he is our hideous monster.”

The line between appreciation and appropriation can be hard to pinpoint. Experts weigh in on the writer’s dilemma: Should her husband have worn a Filipino barong to a family party?

Police in Salisbury, England, have arrested a man accused of trying to steal the Magna Carta — the 1215 document that established basic tenets of the rule of law.

That’s slower than the second quarter’s blockbuster 4.2 percent but puts the economy on pace for the fastest annual growth in 13 years.

It’s a prime example of “gentefication,” economic revival led by people with roots in the community. The cultural mix is a culinary celebration: African, Albanian, Caribbean, Italian, Latino and more.

The move would impose a complete ban on some single-use plastics across the European Union and a reduction on others, aiming to implement most measures by the mid-2020s.

The FBI says Tan Wee Beng, a commodities trader in Singapore, helped North Korea avoid sanctions. The U.S. says North Korea takes elaborate steps to get around financial restrictions.