Why US immigration judges are leaving the bench in record numbers

Why Ethiopia erupted over a musician’s killing

Sterilization abuse of Uighurs in China meets international legal criteria for genocide, experts say

SCOTUS rules some rejected asylum-seekers can’t challenge decisions

Will New START nuclear treaty survive ‘hostile’ US-Russia relations?

No. 1 rule for police: Defend human rights, says Ukraine’s former police chief

Meet June Almeida, the Scottish virologist who first identified the coronavirus

Chile’s ‘COVID-19 card’ sparks controversy over ‘uncertainty of evidence’ about immunity

COVID-19 Cyber Threat Intelligence League fights cybercrime amid pandemic

Wajahat Ali on maintaining one’s faith through crises

US military must recognize civilian deaths in Somali drone strikes, says Amnesty International

‘Emergency releases’ from prison reduce risk of virus spread, criminal justice expert says

Border closures, travel restrictions limit relief organizations

A UN resolution condemning sexual violence against women should’ve been uncontroversial

CIA Director Gina Haspel’s memos detailing torture declassified

‘I lost trust in the system,’ says US citizen now unable to reunite with his Yemeni family

What reporters couldn’t see when they toured a Texas shelter for child migrants

One doctor’s experience on a ‘medical mission’ to treat Rohingya refugees

How does seeking asylum work at the US border?

Venezuela hopes new cryptocurrency is a ‘silver bullet’ for economic woes

How countries around the world translated Trump

Ahed Tamimi: A new symbol of Palestinian resistance?

Chumash firefighters battle wildfires and protect sacred sites in California

In Israel, gun ownership is a privilege rather than a right

What’s your citizen ‘trust score’? China moves to rate its 1.3 billion citizens

How the everyday phrase ‘Allahu Akbar’ became a political lightning rod

The surprising history of the green card lottery

Argentina, spared terror attacks in recent years, mourns five victims in New York attack

Baseball player’s gesture sparks debate about racism in sports

New airport security measures add the human element back into screenings

EU institutions face scrutiny for how they deal with sexual assault

Tiny Montana firm hired to rebuild Puerto Rico’s power grid

Meet the firefighters from American Samoa who sing to stay motivated on the job

Maltese journalist known for taking on powerful ‘crooks’ is killed by a car bomb

The real death toll in Puerto Rico is probably 450 — much higher than the official count

Acid attack victims reverse expectations on the runway

In China, ‘disrespecting’ the national anthem now gets you 15 days in jail

Google joins the growing list of tech companies targeted by Russia’s disinformation campaigns

What happens if President Trump doesn’t renew the Iran nuclear deal?

Russian hackers may have a new target — NATO soldiers’ smartphones

The rest of the world really doesn’t understand American gun culture

How to help Puerto Rico after Maria

How a far-right party’s nationalistic rhetoric framed the issues in Germany’s election

Aung San Suu Kyi breaks her silence on Rohingya crisis, but a fellow Nobel laureate isn’t impressed

Angela Merkel is at the top, but progress is slow for German women

South Korea’s creating a special military unit to assassinate Kim Jong-un

Thousands of people are homeless after Mexico’s worst earthquake in a century

Aung San Suu Kyi’s silence on Rohingya ethnic cleansing could be political pragmatism

Teens, born after 9/11, have a different perspective than those who lived through it

Washington gears up for next phase in Russia investigations

Silicon Valley takes a stand against President Trump’s DACA decision

Photos: Mumbai recovers from floods after the most rainfall in a more than a decade

A new digital platform in West Africa targets speakers of the Pidgin language

There are parallels between Polish and American white nationalist movements

Removing racist statues is ‘taking history to task’ in South Africa

‘Cosmopolitan’ is a dog whistle word once used in Nazi Germany and Communist Russia

There were Indian troops at Dunkirk, too

Clearing mines and explosives in Mosul

Closing the State Department’s war crimes office could send the wrong message

Always make the call: A high school paper scores an interview with the secretary of defense