Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s novel is set in an alternate Jazz Age Mexico, where gods and monsters from Mayan mythology walk the Earth and war with each other for dominion over Xibalba, the land of death.
At a time of polarization and political chaos, the United Kingdom and the United States are about to be led by two remarkably similar figures. Johnson will take office on Wednesday.
Roughly 40% of House Democrats are advocating for opening an impeachment inquiry against the president. Robert Mueller’s testimony Wednesday may be a critical moment for lawmakers on the fence.
Johnson will inherit a slate of problems from Theresa May, including a small majority in Parliament, government resignations and escalations with Iran. And then there’s Brexit.
In two separate hearings on Wednesday, Democrats want Americans who haven’t read Mueller’s findings to see and hear them instead. Republicans want to take the former special counsel down a peg.
Coal miners will press members of Congress to fully restore a coal excise tax that supports miners diagnosed with black lung. The tax was cut more than 50% at the end of last year.
Native girls and women are more likely than average to be the victim of a violent crime. Now, several state task forces will try to better identify and locate indigenous crime victims.
A federal audit and a whistleblower lawsuit allege that Medicare Advantage plans from the St. Louis-based Essence Group Holdings Corp. have significantly overcharged taxpayers.
The lawyer for the man charged with Francesco Cali’s murder says he plans to make an insanity defense including that he became irrational after believing a pro-Trump Internet conspiracy theory.
Kraft was among the earliest employees of NASA and designed mission control and other components of the program. He became head of the Johnson Space Center and oversaw the birth of the space shuttle.
Mutant parasites have built up resistance to first-line malaria drugs, according to two new studies in The Lancet. Scientists worry that this could overturn global progress against the disease.
The state, which has one of the higher suicide rates in the U.S., hopes the law will combat stigma around mental illness. Four teen activists encourage others to “admit when they’re struggling.”
The changes will allow ICE officials to deport undocumented immigrants who can’t prove they have been in the U.S. for more than two years, without a hearing before a judge. It takes effect Tuesday.
A joint investigation by the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica found that in one town, every officer had been convicted of domestic violence within the last 10 years.
Robert Morgenthau, the patrician lawman who a former aide said spent four decades “making mischief for people who engaged in bad conduct,” died Sunday at age 99.
The keyboardist and singer was the co-founder of both the Meters and the Neville Brothers died Monday — bands that took the funk and swagger of New Orleans to a much larger world.
Hundreds of leaked chat messages showed Gov. Ricardo Rosselló and his allies insulting women, gay people and even mocking victims of Hurricane Maria.
More than 1,400 members of Venezuelan security forces crossed the border hoping to one day return. Some say they’re losing steam as efforts to depose the administration have fizzled.
The deal to set spending levels and raise the debt limit would end a decade of roller coaster fiscal standoffs in Washington.
A senior Iranian intelligence officer says Iran has detained CIA-trained spies who were attempting to gather information on the country’s military and nuclear capabilities.
Stevens, who died July 16, is lying in repose Monday in the Supreme Court’s Great Hall. Several current justices as well as President Trump have paid their respects, along with members of the public.
President Trump has his highest approval rating yet, even though his reelection prospects continue to be lackluster. But voters aren’t yet buying what Democrats are selling.
If Chandrayaan-2 reaches the moon as planned, India would become the fourth country to achieve a soft landing on the lunar surface, after the United States, Russia and China.
The credit reporting agency will pay up to $700 million in fines and monetary relief to consumers over a 2017 data breach that affected nearly 150 million people.
Prime Minister Hun Sen called the report, which appeared Sunday in The Wall Street Journal, “made up news.” The report cited unnamed U.S. officials.
Patients with Type 2 diabetes are often steered toward medicine or insulin to control blood sugar. But it’s also possible, with more support than patients often get, to use diet and exercise instead.
All eyes in the capital — and many more in the nation — will be on the former special counsel this week in Congress. Whatever takes place, the political stakes are high.
Amano, who was director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, was instrumental in negotiations leading to the 2015 deal with Iran to limit its nuclear program.
Wyoming Valley West School District in Northeastern Pennsylvania sent families a letter stating that their children would be removed from their homes if unpaid cafeteria meal debt was not settled.
President Volodymyr Zelensky, who gained fame by playing a fictional president on television, hopes a new parliament will give him the clout to follow through on his promise to tackle corruption.
Artists are asking the New York City museum to pull their work from the high-profile show, protesting the Whitney’s board vice chair Warren Kanders, who profits from the sale of tear gas and bullets.
Pastor Joshua Harris, who jump-started the “purity culture” movement, has announced that he and his wife are separating after 19 years of marriage. How might the news affect the evangelical community?
The announcement comes after a week of protests over leaked messages exchanged by Rossello and his staff that included homophobic and misogynistic slurs.
In 2018, burglars looted 34,000 pairs of fajas from a Miami undergarment seller. The criminals cut a hole through the roof and disabled the alarms in a movie-style heist.
The ruling Conservative Party will choose a new leader this week. The winner will inherit a full-blown international crisis, which erupted Friday after Iran seized a British-flagged oil tanker.
The rules block recipients of federal grants from referring patients for abortion. The Trump administration says groups working in “good faith” will have until Aug. 19 to provide written assurance.
