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At the Concacaf W Championship, the top-ranked Americans should quickly pick up a World Cup berth but will face a greater test securing an Olympic slot.

Activists have worn the color for nearly two decades — but its roots go further back.

The government said the country will not turn away Americans, but it is not so simple.

The procedure is legal in Brazil only in cases of rape, incest or severe abnormality. But critics say even women with a permissible reason face resistance.

Sky watchers in Oregon, Washington, England and Canada have spotted "noctilucent clouds," the rarest on Earth

A judge said Roberto Cabrera helped a firm that “merchandized the suffering of families” searching for loved ones. He was sentenced to three years in prison.

A separate tropical rainstorm is drenching parts of the upper Texas coast and southwest Louisiana.

Homero Zamorano, Jr., 45, appeared in federal court in San Antonio Thursday for the first time since the grisly discovery of the bodies.

The vote was 5 to 4, with Chief Justice John Roberts writing the majority opinion for himself, Justice Brett Kavanaugh and the court’s three liberals.

The migrants traveled from Mexico and Central America in search of better lives. Fifty-three have been found dead in the back of a truck in San Antonio.

Costa Rica and Nicaragua are in the crosshairs, while another system in the Gulf will bring heavy rain to Texas.

Ahead of 4th of July weekend, reporters for The Washington Post spoke to people around the world to see how high fuel costs are affecting their lives.

After NATO leaders formally decided to invite Sweden and Finland to join the bloc, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Vladimir Putin “wanted less NATO,” and now he’s “getting more NATO on his borders.”

Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s announcement this week caught the top defense officials of many NATO members off guard, leading them to question which of their forces, if any, were being included.

Fast-food chain Tim Hortons was among the companies to pause their endorsements ahead of the world juniors in fallout from a sexual assault lawsuit settled by Hockey Canada.

Reports of damaging winds from the violent, fast-moving storms have surged since the devastating 2012 Mid-Atlantic event.

A second tropical rainstorm could bring localized flooding to southeast Texas this weekend

For the Republican establishment, let alone its more extremist wing, any discussion of more humane policies at the border or the inefficacy and waste of spending billions of dollars on things like a wall is tantamount to an “open borders mentality.”