As if she were on the cover of a glossy fall magazine, Yuh-Line Niou strolls through trendy South Street Seaport, poised, steely-eyed and fully prepared for her favorite time of…

The building is completely anonymous – big, square and built with brick the color of milk chocolate. It sits in the middle of an industrial section in Allentown, Pennsylvania, a…

One day Republican Donald Trump is up in the polls. The next day, Democrat Hillary Clinton outpaces him. What makes the difference? The science of data collection in the U.S.…

A large group of grievance petitioners were detained Monday in Beijing as Communist Party officials gathered for the sixth plenary session of the 18th Party Congress. Over the weekend, thousands…

Happy birthday, iPod. Fifteen years ago, Apple unveiled the portable music player. The effect the portable music player had on how we listen to music cannot be overstated. For example,…

European Union and Canadian leaders say they are still hopeful their trans-Atlantic free trade deal will be approved despite opposition from one small region in Belgium. All 28 EU members…

Arlington National Cemetery lies just over the Potomac River in northern Virginia and is home to about 400,000 American service men and women. But gravesites of those who have served…

A top Russian diplomat says the Kremlin will not consider another humanitarian cease-fire in the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov spoke Monday, after a 72-hour…

Pakistan’s Central Bank has ordered the country’s commercial banks to freeze the accounts of about 4,000 individuals and businesses linked with terrorism. Central bank spokesperson Abid Qamar told reporters Sunday…

Sudan President Omar al-Bashir has given Juba two months to force Sudanese rebels operating inside South Sudan to leave the country. Bashir made the remarks in Khartoum over the weekend…

U.S.-backed Kurdish peshmerga forces are removing one more obstacle on the road to Mosul: the Islamic State (IS) stronghold in the Iraqi town of Bashiqa. Fighting has been ongoing for…

Iraqi forces have regained more than 800 square kilometers of territory from Islamic State since the fight to retake Mosul began last week, U.S. officials said Monday. Pentagon spokesman Navy…

Recent comments by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump about electoral fraud — “It’s a rigged election” — have alarmed many in the U.S. and abroad.  Free and fair elections have…

“We can’t even wash our hands because there is just barely enough water to drink,” says Intisar, leaning on her tin door frame in the city of Qayyarah, Iraq. She…

A visiting Afghan Taliban delegation is holding meetings with officials in Pakistan and plans to give them “some briefing” on the insurgent group’s recent contacts with the Kabul government, a…

Early in-person voting for the U.S. presidential election is underway in several states, including the battleground states of Florida and Colorado. Polling places opened Monday in 50 counties in Florida,…

Venezuela has freed an opposition activist with dual U.S. citizenship after keeping him jailed for four months. Francisco Marquez was freed on Tuesday and immediately left the country under the…

Calling human trafficking a “multibillion dollar criminal enterprise,” U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday reaffirmed a focus on providing victim- and survivor-centered efforts to combat it. “It’s an…

Cigarettes contribute to more than 1 in 4 cancer deaths in the U.S. The rate is highest among men in southern states where smoking is more common and tobacco control…

A group of masked gunmen stormed a Pakistan police training complex Monday in the southwestern city of Quetta, killing at least 40 police trainees and an officer and wounding more…

It was a striking image. A photo of an 89-year-old man hunched over, struggling to push his cart with frozen treats. Fidencio Sanchez works long hours every day selling the…