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WASHINGTON —  After a winter of punishing but indecisive battles, Ukraine is preparing a long-promised spring offensive that officials hope will change the course of the war against Russia.The goal is to break Russia’s hold on southern and eastern Ukraine and convince Russian President Vladimir Putin that his war has become…

CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico —  They came to offer a serenade for Joel Alexander Leal Peña, born 21 years ago. “¡Tus amigos llegamos aquí!” sang some three dozen people, clustered in the shadow of metal bars fronting a government building in this border city. “All your friends have arrived here!” They held…

The afternoon was cold and starkly silent, broken only occasionally by passing cars honking in solidarity. A blue and white five-starred Honduran flag wavered in the breeze, one of many symbols marking the deaths this week of 39 immigrants who were trapped in a fire at a detention center in…

Three children and three adults were killed this week in Nashville, the latest city to become the scene of one of our all too regular mass shootings. As a parent, I am horrified to see another school taped off as a crime scene. As a physician who has studied the…

Among my friends, there’s a lot of enthusiasm for locking up President Trump and throwing away the key. Many people can’t wait to see the worst president in modern history wearing striped PJs behind metal bars.But much as I too dislike Trump, I must admit that I am worried about…

WASHINGTON —  Dozens of House Republicans rallied to Donald Trump’s defense Friday, a day after he became the first former president in U.S. history to be criminally prosecuted and following weeks of contentious letters traded between Capitol Hill and the Manhattan district attorney’s office.News of the indictment landed late Thursday as…

WASHINGTON —  The criminal indictment of former President Trump is unprecedented, but only as far as U.S. history goes.Around the world, numerous former heads of government have ended up in the dock and often behind bars, in democracies young and old.Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was inaugurated as president of Brazil…

“Rust” assistant director David Halls was convicted Friday of one count of negligent use of a deadly weapon for his role in the accidental shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the low-budget western.With Halls’ plea, New Mexico prosecutors have secured one conviction in the criminal cases…

“It’s commonly said that we know more about the surface of the moon than we do the bottom of the ocean,” said Aurora Elmore of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.A recent discovery provided proof of the truth of that maxim: A mountain taller than Sandstone Peak, the highest summit…

Once again a mass shooting is in the headlines — this time in Nashville, with three children among the six victims. This latest horrific tragedy is prompting renewed calls for gun reform, but what most Americans don’t know is that a different kind of gun revolution is already underway.Over the…