GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. refugee agency says war, violence, persecution and human rights violations caused nearly 3 million people to flee their homes last year, even though the COVID-19 crisis restricted movement worldwide as countries shut borders and...

Joe Manchin wants to remake Democrats' sweeping elections reform bill. Republicans plan to take it down before he can try.

In the course of conducting her research on undocumented dairy farm workers, sociologist Julie C. Keller was privy to a call between Mac, a dairy farmer in Wisconsin, and Adulio, a former farmworker, then in Mexico. 

Ethiopia will vote Monday in an election billed as its freest yet, but that is proceeding under the shadow of war and famine in the north, and serious doubts over fairness. The vote is the cornerstone of a promised democratic revival in Africa's second-most...

Some 82 million people have been forcibly displaced, more than 1% of the world's population.