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In Rwanda, it is illegal to import, produce, use or sell plastic bags, and violators face stiff punishment. But the zero tolerance policy appears to be paying off: The streets are spotless.

For decades, the bones of children lay near a home for unmarried mothers and their babies. It took an amateur historian and the horrific memories of those who had lived there to bring the tragedy to light.

The legal system is coming under renewed scrutiny after rulings in two high-profile cases that alarmed both Westerners and local anticorruption groups.

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Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said that Pyongyang was accelerating the threat of nuclear war through missile tests and that the United States would protect its allies.

After an epic Game 2 in Los Angeles, the Astros’ offense kept their momentum in a 5-3 victory over the Dodgers to take a 2-1 Series lead.

After $70,000 in payments, one teacher found that he wasn’t in the public service loan forgiveness program after all. Now, he has to start over.

The Marigold Affair, full of Cold War intrigue, is a lesson in why peace was so hard to achieve in Vietnam.

The case of a girl with cerebral palsy, who was brought illegally to Texas so she could get medical care, goes to the heart of the immigration debate.

Pyongyang’s chemical weapons pose a grave risk to South Korea and to regional stability.

Why can’t the left condemn this evil as it does its historical equivalents?

Republicans said the new G.D.P. report signaled increased business spending in anticipation of a corporate tax cut, though many economists are skeptical.

The information that a Russian lawyer brought to a June 2016 meeting with Trump campaign aides had been discussed with a top Russian government official.

In order to keep protections for one group of immigrants, kids fleeing violence might be turned away.

What Donald Trump teaches us about higher education.

Documents released this week recall the Cold War context against which the assassination of John F. Kennedy generated suspicion that persists to this day.

Robert Blakeley’s yellow-and-black placards reflected Americans’ anxieties about nuclear war while pointing the way to where they might be saved from it.

The object, faster than known asteroids or comets, was first spotted by a telescope in Hawaii, and is leaving just as quickly as it arrived.

Handing out Halloween candy to children of the White House press corps, the president had more compliments for them than for the journalists he has denounced as purveyors of “fake news.”