Not many years ago in a small, rural South Carolina town stood The Redneck Shop — a racist emporium and Ku Klux Klan museum housed in an old theater, where white supremacist neo-Nazis gave heil-Hitler salutes and flaunted swastikas and rebel flags.
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A San Francisco-based health information technology company will pay $145 million to resolve criminal and civil charges that it helped set up an electronic health records system that encouraged physicians to prescribe opioids to patients who might not need them, federal prosecutors in Vermont said Monday.
Read moreSyrian regime forces were poised Monday to enter Maaret al-Numan, a town of symbolic and strategic importance that is deserted after months of bombardment, in the last opposition bastion.
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In the Indian capital’s Shaheen Bagh neighborhood, beside open sewers and dangerously dangling electricity wires, a group of Muslim women in colorful headscarves sit in resistance to a new citizenship law that has unleashed protests across the country.
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Three American crew members were killed Thursday when a C-130 Hercules water tanker crashed while battling wildfires in southeastern Australia, officials said.
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Hundreds of Central Americans who entered southern Mexico in recent days have been pushed back into Guatemala by Mexican troops, shipped to detention centers or returned to Honduras, officials said Tuesday. An unknown number slipped past Mexican authorities and continued north.
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A Southern California driver intentionally rammed a Toyota Prius with six teenage boys inside, killing three and injuring three others before fleeing, authorities said Monday.
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Malaysia has sent back 150 containers of plastic waste to 13 mainly rich countries since the third quarter last year, with the environment minster warning on Monday that those who want to make the country a rubbish bin of the world can “dream on.”
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Carlos Beltrán, called out on a curveball again. Beltrán’s 2½-month tenure as Mets manager ended Thursday before he spent a single game on the bench, the latest fallout from the Houston Astros’ sign-stealing.
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A pinch in the leg, a squeal and a trickle of tears. One baby after another in Malawi is getting the first and only vaccine against malaria, one of history’s deadliest and most stubborn diseases.
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The Boston Red Sox fired manager Alex Cora on Tuesday night, one day after baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said he was “an active participant” in the Astros’ cheating when he was a bench coach in Houston.
Read moreIndian police have sealed a private hospital and charged staff for manslaughter after a newborn baby was mauled to death by dogs inside an operating theatre, an investigator said Tuesday.
Read moreA U.S. citizen died Monday after more than six years in custody in Egypt, his representatives said, drawing criticism from Washington of its authoritarian ally.
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Iranian security forces fired bullets and tear gas to disperse demonstrators protesting the Islamic Republic’s initial denial that it shot down a Ukrainian jetliner, online videos showed Monday.
Read moreGermany on Friday joined Britain and France in saying it wants to save the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran, rejecting President Donald Trump’s plea for Europeans to quit the hard-won pact.
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Britain’s royal family scrambled Thursday to contain the fallout from the surprise announcement by Prince Harry and Meghan that they plan “to step back” from royal duties and pursue a new path that will allow them to be financially independent.
Read moreThe escalating cycle of reprisals between the United States and Iran is threatening the delivery of aid to millions of people across the Middle East, the Norwegian Refugee Council warned Wednesday.
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Bolstered by cooler weather and desperately needed rain, exhausted firefighters in Australia raced to shore up defenses against deadly wildfires before the blazes flare again this week, when scorching temperatures are expected to return.
Read moreFinance Minister Bruno Le Maire urged the United States Monday to renounce threatened sanctions on France in a dispute over taxation of tech giants, and warned of possible EU retaliation.
Read moreTurkey’s parliament on Thursday authorized the deployment of troops to Libya to support the U.N.-backed government in Tripoli that is battling forces loyal to a rival government seeking to capture the capital.
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