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More than 1,000 current and former staffers of Doctors Without Borders have signed a letter calling on the vaunted aid group to root out pervasive institutional racism within the organization.

U. Reneé Hall will stay on until the end of 2020. She is the latest in a wave of police chiefs to leave their posts after national protests calling for increase law enforcement accountability.

In a ceremony at the U.S. Capitol, Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt says Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg won equality "not in one swift victory, but brick by brick, case by case."

The National Trust for Historic Preservation has announced its annual list of most endangered places. One of the places on the list is the National Negro Opera Company House in Pittsburgh.

Among the staffers named: Louisiana Rep. Cedric Richmond will lead Biden's Office of Public Engagement, and Jen O'Malley Dillon, his campaign manager, will become deputy chief of staff.

How tall is Mount Everest? It varies with seismic activity and climate change. China and Nepal have remeasured the world's tallest mountain, and will announce their findings.

With the coronavirus surging, an El Paso, Texas, county judge ordered all nonessential businesses to close. But after several business owners and the state attorney sued, a court put the plan on hold.

Jennifer Williams, a special adviser detailed to the vice president's office, was listening to the July 25 call between President Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart that helped spark the inquiry.

On the anniversary of the People's Republic of China, the country's top diplomat in Washington says it has "no interest in global dominance or hegemony; we just want our people to have a better life."

The Houston Rockets' general manager deleted his tweet, but the team immediately faced backlash from China, where the NBA has a big following. Ben Cohen, a Wall Street Journal reporter, explains.