Roger Stone invokes Fifth Amendment in appearance before Jan. 6 committee

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol on Friday questioned Roger Stone under oath about the attack, but the longtime adviser to former President Donald Trump said he didn’t give them any answers.

“I did invoke

Ranchers and farmers are destroying the rainforest. Is Bolsonaro to blame?

The Amazon is enveloping and lush, a place of stupefying richness. But a powerful web of extractive forces is also at work here.

Every day, thousands of miners, loggers, farmers and ranchers burn or cut roughly 10,000 acres of forest,

Warrant issued for Alec Baldwin’s cellphone after shooting on ‘Rust’ set

A search warrant was issued for actor Alec Baldwin’s cellphone Thursday, nearly two months after a shooting on the New Mexico set of “Rust” killed the film’s cinematographer and injured its director, court documents show.

In an affidavit filed in

States make headway on criminal justice reform after Congress falls short

President Joe Biden, in his first address to Congress, pressed lawmakers to send him a massive police reform bill in the name of George Floyd by May 25 — the one-year anniversary of his murder.

It never happened. After missing

London’s mayor declares ‘major incident’ as omicron surges in U.K. capital

LONDON — London Mayor Sadiq Khan declared a “major incident” Saturday as the omicron variant of the coronavirus surged through the United Kingdom’s capital.

The impact of the rapid spread of the variant was already felt across the city with

Gas explosion in sewer kills 12 in Pakistan’s largest city

KARACHI, Pakistan — A powerful gas explosion in a sewage system in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, killed at least 12 people and injured 11 others Saturday, police and a health official said.

Police spokesman Sohail Jokhio said the blast was

Keanu Reeves was one of few Asian stars of ‘The Matrix.’ That’s not the case in the revival.

In 1999, “The Matrix” was released and with it, the phrases “red pill,” “bullet time,” and “free your mind” entered the cultural lexicon. That was a different world then, when technology taking over our brains was the stuff of science

Indonesia’s Mount Semeru volcano erupts, spews high ash column

Indonesia’s Semeru volcano on Java island erupted early on Sunday spewing a high ash column over a mile into the sky and prompting authorities to warn people to stay away from the eruption range.

Earlier this month, the eruption of

Opinion | I regret feeding my children the myth of Santa

Everywhere I look, I see parents immersing their young children in Santa mythology. They play elaborate games with elves on shelves, tell convoluted stories about “real” Santas versus mall Santas and follow a script containing the sometimes-desperate admonition to their

Burlington, Vt., ‘defunded’ its police force. Here’s what followed.

BURLINGTON, VT — One evening in June 2020, a City Council budget meeting in this college town near the Canadian border stretched past midnight after hundreds of locals had logged on to Zoom to speak. Over nine hours, bleary-eyed councilors