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Kamala Harris has done little to recommend herself to voters and much to give them pause. The group that seems to have given up on persuading people that Kamala Harris deserves a promotion ...

Yet, despite this long and dubious history, Israel has managed to introduce a new form of shielding in Gaza, one that appears unprecedented in the history of warfare. The practice was initially ...

Hezbollah has been “significantly degraded,” he assessed, but even weakened, it “is still pretty competent.” The Israeli military killed Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in a strike ...

As vice president, Kamala Harris has targeted racial and gender gaps in health care, lending and other areas. She isn’t running on that part of her record. By Sharon LaFraniere and Julian E.

"If we look to the history, then isolationism has never worked well for America," Kallas said. Like many European leaders in recent days, she also sought to make the case for continuing U.S ...

Olympic legend Sir Chris Hoy says he has terminal cancer and "two to four years" to live. Sir Chris, 48, revealed earlier this year he was being treated for an unspecified type of cancer and was ...

That prospect is called the black hole information paradox. It has occupied physicists for decades, not only because it highlights the profound disconnect between general relativity, Albert ...

Phil Lesh, bassist and founding member of iconic rock band Grateful Dead, has died. He was 84. The news was announced on Lesh’s verified Instagram on Friday, which said he died “peacefully ...

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"The situation in Haiti has regrettably worsened," Maria Isabel Salvador said in a briefing to the U.N. Security Council, which over a year ago ratified the deployment of an international security ...