US & World

Dogs who have been trained to find and save koalas in the wild are helping to rescue the animals in Australia’s devastating bushfires. Bear, a…

Iranians are still offline, three days after the government pulled the plug on the internet amid nationwide anti-government protests. Experts say the…

China’s raft of clean air policies saved hundreds of thousands of lives in 2017 alone, according to new research. Fine particle pollution…

A California brush fire that burned in the hills near Simi Valley last month caused $500,000 in damage to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, a…

Lebanon’s parliament has been postponed after demonstrators blocked roads and prevented politicians from arriving for a first session since…

Germany’s Green Party has placed the power to debate directly into the hands of women. A new ruling, adopted at the party’s conference in…

Two of Neptune’s innermost moons perform a strange dance to avoid each other that is weird and completely unique compared to all known orbits,…

The Taliban has released two Western professors who had been held hostage for the past three years in exchange for three high-ranking militants, in a…

Officials are investigating a string of violent horse attacks in upstate South Carolina that left some animals dead and others with severe injuries.…

Attention in Hong Kong continues to be focused on the city’s Polytechnic University, where an ever-shrinking number of protesters remain holed…

In a surprise decision Monday, a Hong Kong court threw out a month-old mask ban the government had introduced in the hopes of stemming the…

Two floors beneath the headquarters of Iraqi Military Intelligence, at the end of a red-carpeted corridor, two doors swing open to reveal a museum of…

The Chinese government has reacted furiously to the publication of more than 400 pages of sensitive Communist Party documents by the New York Times,…

A Saudi Arabian tugboat was seized by Yemen‘s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels on Sunday, according to the state-run Saudi Press Agency SPA. The…

Pennsylvania inmates on death row will no longer face solitary confinement. The ACLU reached a settlement in its class action lawsuit against the…

A Pennsylvania man admitted to taking his girlfriend from Pennsylvania to Nevada under the guise of a vacation and then killing her, according to an…

This was originally published as the November 19 edition of CNN’s Meanwhile in America, the daily email about US politics for global readers.…

South Dakota launched a new campaign Monday to battle a methamphetamine crisis that Gov. Kristi Noem says is “growing at an alarming…