Sometimes the best take on current affairs is found not in the punditry of the cable shows but in great literature. Watching the horrific scenes in Kabul—the anguish of parents handing their babies to soldiers, the bodies falling from planes—made...

Australia’s most-populous state, New South Wales, will trial home quarantine for fully vaccinated arrivals, signaling an easing of one of the world’s most hardcore border regimes. The nation’s Victoria state is winding back some lockdown measures...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas warned against "destroying our institutions" on Thursday while arguing judges should remain out of politics.

WASHINGTON (AP) — One side is energized by the prospect of the greatest expansion of government support since the New Deal nearly a century ago. The other is fearful about dramatically expanding Washington's reach at an enormous cost. They're all Democrats....

The Justice Department moved on Thursday to block a bankruptcy plan that grants broad legal immunity to the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma, whose drug OxyContin has been at the heart of the nation’s opioid epidemic.