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The blast that ripped away large sections of the outer wall at the Hotel Saratoga, a 19th century structure, apparently was due to a gas leak, according to the office of President Miguel Díaz-Canel. (Image credit: Ramon Espinosa/AP)

Worries about a new civil war in the United States are misplaced because the Civil War never fully ended. That is essential knowledge for understanding current political divisions, especially the recriminations surrounding the leaked draft Supreme Court Roe decision, negating

School’s about to be out for the summer in India—weeks earlier than planned. The sweltering spring heatwave that has built across the subcontinent since March has in recent days forced several north Indian states to change schooling hours, revive lockdown-era

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. If ever there were doubts that Symone Sanders doesn’t phone anything in, they quickly dissipated in a

Russian soldiers occupying Mariupol unveiled a strange statue in the embattled Ukrainian city on Thursday. The statue, of a Ukrainian peasant woman holding a Soviet flag, is of “Babushka Z” – who appeared in a video recorded by Ukrainian soldiers

State Department spokesperson Ned Price gives a news briefing on Friday as First Lady Jill Biden visits Europe and plans to meet with Ukrainian refugees.

The mother of Daunte Wright, who was fatally shot by a suburban Minneapolis police officer, says was injured while she was briefly detained by one of the same department’s officers after she stopped to record an arrest of a person

Speaker Nancy Pelosi is addressing concerns about the working conditions for some Capitol Hill aides. She’s announced a $45,000 minimum yearly salary for House staffers.

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The Pentagon on Friday denied reports that it helped Ukrainian forces sink the Russian warship Moskva in the Black Sea last month in a stunning setback for Moscow’s invasion. “We did not provide Ukraine with specific targeting information for the