World
Americans are traveling abroad again, and passport wait times are skyrocketing
WASHINGTON — Attention world travelers! Check your passports, now.The State Department is taking longer than usual to issue new U.S. passports,...
Why the kidnapping of four Americans in Mexico turned into a political spectacle
When the truck with North Carolina plates crossed the border from Brownsville, Texas, to Matamoros, Mexico, on Friday, the so-called...
How an FBI agent’s wild Vegas weekend stained a probe into NCAA basketball corruption
The FBI agents arrived in Las Vegas with $135,000 and a plan.They took over a sprawling penthouse at the Cosmopolitan,...
A round barn rises in rural America. There is grief and hope in its rafters
LOGAN COUNTY, Okla. — A curiosity rises amid the wheat fields along rural Highway 33, which cuts through the town of...
Editorial: GOP must acknowledge that Trump is a fatally flawed candidate
In a sane world, Donald J. Trump, defeated for reelection, twice impeached and caught up in multiple investigations, would slink...
Column: Is the world becoming more free and democratic — or backsliding?
You don’t need a PhD in international relations to know that freedom, democracy and human rights are on the defensive...
Senate panel advances Garcetti’s nomination to be ambassador to India
WASHINGTON — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted Wednesday to advance former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s nomination to be ambassador...
Column: Forget decency. In today’s politics it’s all about nastiness and party loyalty
Last weekend, the Texas Republican Party voted to punish one of its own.Tony Gonzales, a two-term congressman from San Antonio,...
Ukrainian group protests Oscar nominations for ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ over alleged ties to Russian oligarch
A global Ukrainian group is protesting the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ nomination of “Top Gun: Maverick” for...
2 kidnapped Americans found dead in Mexico; 2 others rescued and returned to the U.S.
MEXICO CITY — Two of four U.S. citizens kidnapped at gunpoint last week in northern Mexico have been found dead, Mexican...
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