This Week on the Hill: Johnson returns to House logjam as GOP hard-liners dig in
Lawmakers return to Washington this week confronting the same legislative logjam that brought the House to a standstill before they left town, with no clear path to breaking the impasse.…
Congress should empower states to fix benefit cliffs
A U.S. Senate committee recently discussed a decades-old federal policy trap that punishes poor families for getting a raise: social safety net-benefit cliffs. These cliffs hamper upward mobility and harm…
The messy intersection of Dred Scott and the birthright citizenship case
It is easy to forget just how terrible the Dred Scott decision was.
The Pentagon says drones are not a ‘silver bullet’ in its new handbook on fighting them
Unmanned aerial systems or drones have become the driving force behind military strategy. They’ve offered cheap alternatives to costly weapons systems, drained interceptor stockpiles and proven to be a powerful…
Men disguised as police kill Ecuadorean drug lord's brother
The victim, David Macías, was the brother of drug lord ‘El Fito’, who is awaiting trial in the US.
German court convicts Iraqi couple of enslaving Yazidi girls
The pair, named only as Twana H.S. and Asia R. A., left Germany for Iraq in 2015 and became members of the Islamic State group.
'Hero, legend, sweetheart': Tributes to Jurassic Park actor Sam Neill, who has died aged 78
Friends, politicians and fellow film stars remember Neill following his “sudden and unexpected” death.
Al Jazeera bids farewell to founder Sheikh Hamad
Al Jazeera bids farewell to founder Sheikh Hamad
Directors Valérie Donzelli, Carolina Cavalli to Head Venice Sidebar Juries
‘The Queen of Hearts’ director Donzelli will head up the Horizons jury, while ‘Fremont’ filmmaker Cavalli will chair the jury for best first feature.












