Hard-Luck Men in Hardscrabble Towns

“I’m the first writer in the family,” the novelist Richard Russo once said, “but I’m not the first bullshitter in the family.” That honor belonged to his divorced father, Jim,…

From towns to zones: Why Israel gives military names to civilian areas

Israeli authorities are increasingly applying security terminology for residential areas where people live.

Settlers attack Palestinian towns in occupied West Bank

Settlers attack Palestinian towns in Occupied West Bank

Watch: Flooded towns and evacuations as Chile hit by heavy rain

A “state of catastrophe” has been declared in Coquimbo and Huasco following the downpour.

WV town's police department thrown into chaos by evidence room fiasco, but officials say no one was fired

Officials in one West Virginia town are pushing back on claims from its own police department that every single person in the agency was fired, saying the entire department is…