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What began as a disparaging remark about Mexican bread became a proxy fight over gentrification in Mexico City, where an influx of foreign residents, rising rents and the spread of European-style cafes have fueled resentment.

This holiday season, experts are using a K-shaped model to describe an economy in which the gap between the highest and lowest earners is growing.

Volunteers from the Druze religious sect in Israel have built a lifeline of aid to help fellow Druze in Syria. The effort now shapes survival, power and the future of Syria's Druze.

The president issued a symbolic and meaningless 'pardon' for Tina Peters, who was convicted on seven criminal counts tied to Trump's Big Lie about a stolen 2020 election. She remains unrepentant.

Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said he and Republican Rep. Thomas Massie were "exploring all options" for forcing more disclosures, including by pursuing "the impeachment of people at Justice."

Lou Cannon, a journalist known for his coverage of Ronald Reagan's political career, the Rodney King riots and other major news events died at 92.

The Justice Department will miss a legal deadline Friday to release all files from its investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, a top official said.

A Stanford software engineering degree used to be a golden ticket.

Rising prices have given President Trump a major political problem: Many of the voters who backed him last year are losing faith.

TikTok said Thursday that it signed an agreement to form a U.S. joint venture that is majority-owned by U.S. investors and would oversee its U.S. operations.