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The Caribbean island of Barbuda felt the full force of Hurricane Irma. Now, a struggle to control its future is underway. On one side are Barbudans who own the land and want to preserve their unique way of life — on the other, the government and foreign investors who see opportunity in disaster.
Ambiguities in the 50-year-old Outer Space Treaty may be getting in the way of entrepreneurs seeking opportunities elsewhere in our solar system.
Thousands of officers moved against a sit-in led by a firebrand cleric that has paralyzed the capital, with at least six deaths and 150 arrests.
Senator Mitch McConnell and his allies have been infuriated as President Trump has reacted with indifference to a series of ideas they have floated to try to block Mr. Moore.
One of the most striking aspects of the carnage at a Sinai mosque: How easy it was for militants to carry it out.
The West made a saint of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. The Rohingya crisis revealed a politician.
A legal battle over who will run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau broke out after its chief abruptly resigned on Friday.
He scoured the world for evidence to make his case, but a scholar now finds his government reluctant to challenge Beijing, its powerful rival.
A legal battle over who can appoint the temporary chief of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau after its director abruptly resigned on Friday.
Hundreds of people have been killed inside Sufi mosques in the past year by militants. To ISIS, not one of them was considered a Muslim.
Once master of a seemingly limitless portfolio, the president’s son-in-law now focuses on his own projects as speculation mounts about his future.
The region has seen the biggest spike in ICE arrests during the Trump administration, and undocumented immigrants in the suburbs are trying to lie low.
Tony Hovater, a 29-year-old welder, helped form a pro-Nazi group that marched in Charlottesville. Now he is hoping his ideas will go mainstream.
A Supreme Court decision that citizens have a constitutional right to privacy is seen as a crucial advance in the fight against a law criminalizing sex between men.
The assault, in an area racked by an Islamist insurgency, sent shock waves across the nation — not only for the death toll but also for the choice of target.
