Paulina Vargas

Bolivia’s former president and defense minister dropped appeals in a long-running civil case, cementing a jury’s finding that they were responsible for a deadly massacre.

Bands of active-duty and retired police, once accepted as semi-official adjuncts to law enforcement, threaten the nation’s democracy.

Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Washington Post opinions contributor, was convicted in April of criticizing Russia’s war, charges the State Department has called unjust.

In Leominster and surrounding areas, sinkholes and other severe effects of nearly a foot of rain affected residents Monday night into Tuesday.

Tailei Qi, a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a faculty member.

The school sent an alert at 1:03 p.m., warning of a danger to the campus. It told people to “resume normal activities” three hours later.

The archdiocese said the move would help facilitate restitution, but critics called the move an attempt to deny justice and transparency for abuse survivors.

The six officers, who branded themselves the « Goon Squad, » admitted to attacking the two Black men with Tasers, a sword and other objects.

O’Shae Sibley was dancing with friends while filling up at a gas station when a group of men confronted them and one of them stabbed him, witnesses say.

Severed from home and family in Nicaragua, former political prisoners struggle to build new lives in the U.S. as they watch their country unravel from afar.