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Big decisions about Ukraine are President Vladimir V. Putin’s to make, but the Kremlin and state media are distancing him from the setback in Kherson and downplaying its seriousness.

For the Europeans who colonized it in the 19th century, the American West promised money, power, and freedom. Civilization was an afterthought, except within the Indigenous communities that would fall prey to the genocidal ideology of Manifest Destiny. The conflict

President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country’s troops have recaptured dozens of settlements in their push toward the only regional capital seized by Russia since February.

While the midterm election was not the red wave that some had predicted, Democrats are likely to lose their majority in the House of Representatives and the future of the Senate hangs in the balance, with competitive races still being

A study found that giving direct food support to women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa cut their risk of contracting HIV by 64%, because it alleviated the pressure to engage in high-risk sex. (Image credit: Hanna Barczyk for NPR)

On Monday morning, the team at A-B Partners, a Washington, D.C., political-communications firm that works with progressive groups, gathered on Zoom. They had less than 24 hours before the Election Day polls opened for a series of contests around the

Japan’s justice minister stepped down on Friday after facing criticism for reportedly saying his “low-profile” position only generates media coverage when he approves the death penalty. Yasuhiro Hanashi’s resignation serves a further blow to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government, which

Family members and colleagues of slain Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh told UN investigators Thursday she had been deliberately targeted as part of Israel’s “wide-scale war” on Palestinian media workers. The killing of the veteran Al Jazeera reporter, who was

One night last February, Indian police showed up at the home address of a Twitter employee in New Delhi. There, the employee was served with a legal notice and told to accompany officers to a police station. Indian farmers were

Benjamin Netanyahu moved closer to becoming prime minister again after Israeli President Isaac Herzog said he would hand him a mandate to form a coalition expected to be made up of right-wing, ultranationalist and religious parties.