For years, Helen Butler has been on a mission to increase voter turnout, especially among Black voters, in Georgia and across the south. She’s used to the skepticism. People she meets wonder why they should bother, because their vote won’t matter....

A new campaign to stiffen West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin’s pushback of President Joe Biden’s massive spending scheme is targeting parents with children in faith-based schools, warning that they will driven out under the “Build Back Better” plan....

Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim, a veteran of the fight against apartheid who spent years imprisoned on Robben Island alongside Nelson Mandela, died Monday aged 84, South Africa's ruling party announced. Ebrahim passed away at his Johannesburg home after a long...

As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.2 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 788,000 Americans.

More than a dozen Covid cases have been identified on a cruise ship that docked in New Orleans on Sunday, health officials said, underscoring the obstacles the cruise-line industry continues to face after more than a year of restrictions and setbacks....