Zimbabwe's former first lady allegedly beat a model with an extension cord, though for nearly a year she had diplomatic immunity. That shield was dropped, and authorities say they're back on the case.
When José Aguilar, a Honduran living in the Mexican border city who runs the restaurant Honduras 504, heard a caravan of mostly Honduran migrants was coming, he knew he had to do something to help.
U.S. troops have been in Syria since late 2015. The move is a reversal of U.S. policy: Earlier this month, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis said troops would stay to stabilize the country.
New Yorker reporter Ben Taub says hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, including women and children, are being detained, tortured, killed or cast out for suspected association with ISIS.
Canadian officials have not identified the person being held, citing privacy rules. And they have not drawn a link between the detentions and the Dec. 1 arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.
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The latest group of Cambodian immigrants to be deported from the U.S. arrived in Phnom Penh on Wednesday. Steve Inskeep talks to attorney Melanie Kim about who they are and why they're being deported.
The Trump administration is expected to crack down on Chinese hacking in a bid to curb Beijing's effort to be a world leader in advanced technologies by 2025.