In Germany, lawmakers have approved changes to the constitution to allow for unprecedented spending on defense. The historic vote brings an end to decades of austerity.

The Trump administration's massive aid cuts have implications for humanitarian workers around the globe. USAID was a bedrock for non-profits and UN agencies, who are now trying to figure out a way to ...

Author Abdulrazak Gurnah was a surprise winner of the Nobel prize for his multigenerational saga of displacement and loss during the colonization of East Africa called Afterlives. He's back with a new ...

The Israeli military says the ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza is officially over and a new offensive there has begun. A series of surprise Israeli airstrikes overnight killed more than 400 Palestinians.

An elephant ranch in Florida is offering yoga classes for veterans to help them with trauma. From the other side of a fence, retired elephants eat and mosey around.

Columbia University students are upset that the school has not taken a more strident stance to protect its students as the Trump administration has used immigration enforcement against protestors.