New Year celebrations in South Korea have been cancelled or scaled back following Sunday's plane crash at Muan International Airport. The country entered a seven-day period of mourning after 179 ...

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Four weeks after a puzzling outbreak was reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization has ...

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While US historians tend to tell the simple, good-versus-evil story of the creation and implementation of the Thirteenth ...

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Maryland leaders are mourning President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100. "Jimmy Carter represented the best of our country. His decades of distinguished service to America and humanity leave ...

In 2025, my hope for the world is that governments and institutions will finally stop dithering and focus on solutions that deliver the best returns.

Some 70 countries that are home to half the world’s population held elections in 2024, and voters' message was often: “You’re ...