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Republican retirements from the House have given Democrats hope of expanding their gains next year in Texas, where changing demographics in suburbs have reshaped the electorate in some districts.

The federal government on Tuesday released the annual National Crime Victimization Survey. The 2018 data show a big jump in reports of sexual assault and rape.

E.R. Ramzipoor's novel tells the story a group of resisters in Belgium during World War II who lampooned the Nazis by putting out a satirical edition of the newspaper Le Soir, then a Nazi mouthpiece.

Volunteers in the Mexican border town of Matamaros, across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Texas, have created a pop-up school on a downtown sidewalk for migrant children to attend.

In Kevin Barry's grim but compassionate new novel, two weary Irish ex-crooks sit waiting in a run-down Spanish ferry terminal, waiting for one man's estranged daughter who may or may not show up.

China is the world's largest importer of oil. It buys a lot of crude oil from Saudi Arabia and is investing heavily in Iran. So China is especially vulnerable to instability in the Middle East.

In developing countries, public toilets may be in short supply. And even when they are available, women and girls might not feel comfortable using them.

Joel Willett, who was on the National Security Council at the White House, describes the process of taking notes during calls the president makes, and why they are recorded this way.

President Trump signed a partial trade agreement with Japan that promises lower tariffs on U.S. farm exports. The deal does not address Trump's threat to impose a tariff on Japanese cars.

He was Saudi Arabia's oil minister for nearly 25 years, rising to fame for engineering the 1973 oil embargo and negotiating Saudi control of Aramco from U.S. fuel giants.