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WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday attacked Jeff Sessions, his attorney general, over the Justice Department’s decision to bring criminal charges against two Republican congressmen ahead of the midterm elections, linking the department’s actions with his...

HOUSTON — Hurricane Harvey ruined the little house on Lufkin Street. And ruined it remains, one year later. Vertical wooden beams for walls. Hard concrete for floors. Lawn mowers where furniture used to be. Holes where...

ST. CHARLES, Mo. — The prosperity is apparent on the way into town: the 21-floor casino resort and spa on one side of the interstate, and on the other a freshly built retail quarter of boutiques,...

Let’s be honest: Despite his reputation as a maverick, John McCain spent most of his last decade being a very orthodox Republican, toeing the party line no matter how irresponsible it became. Think of the way...

Ott Saareväli, the owner of a pig farm in Lääne county in Estonia, is starting all over again. In September last year, government vets diagnosed an outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) in a section of...

The unveiling of Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi, the world’s most expensive painting, at the Louvre Abu Dhabi has been indefinitely postponed for undisclosed reasons. The city’s department of culture and tourism announced the delay on...

Two Reuters journalists arrested in Myanmar while investigating a massacre of Rohingya Muslims have been found guilty of breaching the country’s Official Secrets Act and sentenced to seven years in prison. Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo,...

Thursday morning, in images carried live on every major cable news network, the body of Senator John McCain arrived at the North Phoenix Baptist Church in a hearse with the word “Dignity” on the rear window....

• Bill Clinton, describing himself as an Aretha “groupie,” called Ms. Franklin the “composer of her own song.” • More than 100 pink Cadillacs were part of the funeral procession to the church. • Ariana Grande...

BANGKOK — Myanmar made international headlines twice this week, with each instance provoking a drastically different response from the country’s citizens. First, a United Nations panel recommended that Myanmar’s top military commanders stand trial for genocide in relation...