Career banker Guillermo Lasso won Ecuador’s presidential election after a late surge in support, reassuring bondholders in the default-prone country and shoring up U.S. ties.

Claudia Yoli Ferla can’t vote herself. But, by registering and educating others, the 28-year-old immigrant and El Pasoan has helped thousands of fellow Texans gain access to the polls, despite the blot of voter suppression in her state. Now – as Republican...

Hundreds protested Sunday night after a Black man in Minnesota was shot by a police officer and died following a traffic stop.

Amid a new push to vaccinate Homeland Security employees, the wife of a hospitalized Border Patrol agent urges others not to delay COVID-19 shots.

President Joe Biden has pitched his infrastructure package as a weapon essential to keeping pace with China, calling it a "blue-collar blueprint" that his administration says will create millions of jobs and better position the United States to compete...

Why a new reporting initiative on the science, politics, and economics of an ecological catastrophe is so badly needed.