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The pandemic provides an opportunity for Taiwan to raise its international profile. But that is unlikely to go over well in Beijing, which is facing pressures for its own handling of the virus.

Dozens of members of Congress sleep in their own offices. One longtime opponent, Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., argues that it's particularly important to end the practice now.

West Bank settlements have expanded under every Israeli government over the past half-century. Nearly 10 percent of Israel's Jewish population now lives on land captured in the 1967 Six-Day War.

This was a tumultuous year for the U.S. Supreme Court because of the unexpected death of justice Antonin Scalia. In 2017, a new president will likely mean the court will finally get a new justice.

Holding torturers to account requires evidence, the kind that doctors are learning to compile from countries at war, like Syria. But there are many challenges.

In the past 14 months, more than 13,000 migrants and refugees have been dumped in the Sahara by Algerian authorities, with unknown numbers dying in the desert, The Associated Press says.

Syrians say civilians were killed and wounded during the U.S. raid on ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi. That contradicts the account by the U.S. military, which says it's looking into the matter.

In the 1990s, the Army turned over base housing responsibilities to private contractors. The idea was to reduce costs and respond more quickly to housing needs. It hasn't worked out that way.

Brie Larson stars opposite Samuel L. Jackson, her Captain Marvelcompatriot, in the oddball magical-realism comedy Unicorn Storeon Netflix.

ISIS may not be defeated, but the U.S. is right to withdraw from Syria, argue Aaron David Miller of the Woodrow Wilson Center and Richard Sokolsky of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.