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The Eaton Fire northeast of downtown Los Angeles and the Palisades Fire to the west on the Pacific Coast Highway have destroyed 12,000 homes and other structures, with 11 deaths now attributed to the conflagrations.

For Viktor Orbán, the basis for granting asylum to fugitive Polish politician Marcin Romanowski was a mere four-page pamphlet. We have found this document: it has no author but heavily cites a platform run by the Polish ultra-conservative Ordo Iuris Institute.

Taganrog, a city of 245,000 on Russia’s southern coast near the Ukrainian border, has become notorious as a hub for captured Ukrainians. Its SIZO-2 is now infamous for prolonged beatings and torture.

This is the story of the Taganrog torture facility.

The Dugway sheep incident, happened during March 1968 it has been connected to United States Army chemical and biological warfare programs in Dugway Proving Ground in Utah....

Afghanistan’s hard-line Taliban rulers have shunned a major international conference on girls’ education in the Muslim world.

As fires rage through southern California, the costs of extreme weather events linked to climate change are forecast to keep climbing – adding fuel to growing efforts by some US states to make the oil and gas industry liable for helping foot the bill despite looming legal challenges.

A new study shows that advanced kidney disease compromises the survival of B cells and significantly reduces the immune response to the influenza virus.