The blaze destroyed voting machines and booths for 19 of Kinshasa’s 24 polling stations. But with 10 days to go, the Democratic Republic of the Congo plans to proceed with its presidential election.
The Russian gun rights activist had sought to establish back-channel ties between the Russian government and leading U.S. conservative groups, including the Trump campaign and the NRA.
Joseph Kabila is barred from seeking a third consecutive term as president of Congo, where elections are scheduled later this month. But he doesn’t rule out running again in the future.
A researcher had an idea about viruses that was wild. And it turned out to be true.
After week-long peace talks at a castle in Sweden, the Yemeni government and Houthi rebels have agreed to a cease-fire in Hodeidah, a strategically significant city held by the rebels.
Even with the backing of state-based beer giant Coors, small farmers just couldn’t compete with the Pacific Northwest. And with more people choosing wine and spirits, some craft brewers are closing.
Experts say there isn’t solid evidence that federal aid drives up college prices, except in one sector: for-profit colleges.
Courts should be added to the list of “sensitive locations” that ICE officials are to avoid, judges say, arguing the justice system depends on safe and equal access to the court system.
“We’ll never have any decent people run for office again,” said one lifelong Bladen County resident. The district might have to rerun the primary and general elections for Congress.
The president’s former personal lawyer is going to prison. A Russian woman is set to plead guilty to acting as a foreign agent. A former Trump national security adviser will soon learn his fate, too.
The U.S. surgeon general has called on “bystanders” to be equipped with the opioid reversal drug to save lives. But when a nurse answered that call, her application for life insurance was denied. Why?
With government shelters across the country nearing capacity, officials are considering a range of options from releasing the children more quickly to building more tent cities.
Chinese authorities have detained another Canadian citizen this week, allegedly for harming national security. The detentions appear to be retaliation for Canada’s arrest of a Huawei executive.
Nancy Pelosi is poised to once again be speaker of the House, after cutting a deal with several House Democrats who had previously opposed her. Pelosi will serve a maximum of four years in the post.
“I wanted to understand how such a distressing, degrading and high-risk set of events could have occurred in a 21st Century Australian prison,” the head of a prison watchdog said on Wednesday.
When fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine, infiltrated the drug supply in the U.S. it had an immediate, dramatic effect on the overdose rate.
Javier Errázuriz had been accused of ignoring sexual abuse in Chile. George Pell has reportedly been found guilty of sexually assaulting children in Australia.
Lawmakers are expected to vote this week to overhaul how Congress handles accusations of sexual misconduct. The deal follows a nearly yearlong standoff over member liability and other issues.
Remembering Rosanelle Eaton, the North Carolina woman who in her 90s became the face of efforts to overturn laws that civil rights activists said discriminated against black voters.
The U.S. government says warming ocean temperatures and melting ice have resulted in the “most unprecedented transition in history” in the Arctic, leading to extreme weather events across the globe.
A bipartisan resolution directs the administration to end military assistance to the Saudi-led conflict. It draws on the Vietnam-era War Powers Act, marking the first debate on this war authority.
Tribune Publishing secretly started to pay more than $2.5 million to a fired news executive to settle a lawsuit. It sought to keep a slur by controlling owner Michael Ferro from becoming public.
American teens are chronically sleep deprived, in part because of early school start times. But how much difference can a later start make? As Seattle’s school district found out, it can help a lot.
Keri Blakinger spent nearly two years locked up on narcotics charges before becoming a journalist. “I’ve been so privileged in so many ways to end up with hope and second chances,” she says.
Britain’s prime minister faces a no-confidence vote in Parliament on Wednesday evening. Why do members of her own party want to sack her?
The onetime fixer for Trump has admitted that not only did he commit financial crimes but also that Trump directed him to arrange hush-money payments to two women. Cohen also says he lied to Congress.
The earthquake struck eastern Tennessee before dawn Wednesday. As mild as it was, its effects were felt from eastern Kentucky all the way to Atlanta.
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.
“I will contest that vote with everything I’ve got,” the U.K. prime minister said outside of No. 10 Downing St. The vote may also decide the fate of her embattled Brexit deal with the European Union.
Chinese state hackers most likely attacked the reservation system at Marriott’s Starwood chain, revealing details of 500 million guests, according to people familiar with the U.S. investigation.
We checked in with authors, poets and great literary minds to see what books they think everyone should read this holiday season.
Some colleges are extending scholarships and other help to rural high school grads. They see benefits to diversity — and their own bottom lines — in having rural students on their campuses.
A small hole in spacecraft Soyuz MS-09 has sparked an investigation into its origin. Cosmonauts spent hours on a spacewalk to gather samples in hopes of determining its cause.
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.
A report by the Office of the Inspector General revealed Accenture, contracted to help hire 7,500 new agents, is “nowhere near” completing its goals and “risks wasting millions of taxpayer dollars.”
Defense lawyers told the judge their client gave investigators extensive help and gave the country exemplary military service.
