A police officer involved in the raid that killed Breonna Taylor in 2020 got a 33-month sentence Monday. The Department of ...

Last year more than 70 countries comprising more than half of humanity held elections. Now, from Senegal to Sri Lanka, new leaders face the urgency of meeting the aspirations of their citizens. One ...

As colleges and the Trump administration battle over federal funding, more questions arise about the obligations around grants and other financial arrangements – and what’s at stake if those systems ...

Collaboration among local government, police, and community groups has helped cut violent crime in many US cities. One ...

Guatemala elected an anti-graft president in 2023. But the slow pace of change has disappointed many supporters.

A century ago, colonial borders divided the Borgu people between Benin and Nigeria. Today, soccer is reuniting them.

A tour of the facility shows how the former federal penitentiary remains larger than life in American mythology.

God, Love, is always present to inspire us with comfort and hope, as a young man from Ukraine has experienced firsthand.

President Donald Trump started his second presidency with a burst of executive actions on issues core to his electoral ...

The court reached the end of June having issued almost twice as many emergency orders as it did merits opinions. Is this an ...

It’s a fraught time in Congress. Republicans are squabbling among themselves, managing their base’s frustration over the Epstein files, and bracing for the White House’s second rescissions package to ...

Charlie Wood wrote for the Monitor's Rapid Response team from January through April 2017 and wrote for the Science desk for the summer of 2017. In previous lives, he taught physics in rural ...