Sri Lanka's president pardoned 16 men linked to the Tamil Tiger rebels on Thursday, as the country faced renewed pressure from the UN over detentions without charge under an anti-terrorism law. The pardon is a first for people linked to the Tigers since...

Ongoing disputes in states over voting rights won’t disappear after Senate Democrats lost their attempt to rewrite federal election law — and they may yet return to Congress for an uglier fight next year. The battle over those new election laws will...

More than 80 fire rescue units were involved in the response, officials said.

Enrique Soto, a senior cardiologist in Uruguay knew that, at the age of 65, he was at higher risk of Covid-19. His 40-year-old son Marcos had warned him as much but Soto replied he could not abandon his patients. When Soto died at the beginning of Uruguay’s...

A multi-story building partially collapsed in Florida's Miami-Dade County early Thursday morning, authorities said.