An Ecuadorian judge was gunned down in broad daylight as she drove to a gym in the southwestern city of Machala, the latest casualty in a war between the state and the cocaine cartels that have turned this small Andean nation into one of the deadliest places in Latin...

Sixteen people died after a passenger bus collided head-on with a fuel tanker on one of Sumatra's main highways Wednesday, May 6, 2026, triggering an explosion that trapped and burned victims inside both vehicles. The intercity bus was traveling from Lubuklinggau city in South Sumatra to Pekanbaru with at least...

A 13-year-old boy killed two female staff members and wounded two other people when he opened fire Tuesday, May 5, 2026, at Instituto São José, a public school in Rio Branco, Brazil, authorities said. The teenage suspect was in custody by the time officers reached the school in Acre...

The 68-year-old actor who spent more than three decades building a career on stages and soundstages now says he wants none of it anymore. Alec Baldwin, in a Washington Times podcast interview released April 14, 2026, delivered a stark assessment of where his life stands: worn down by financial...

A single four-letter word uttered by former Vice President Kamala Harris at a Nevada Democratic event on May 7 has ignited a political firestorm, with video of her profane description of President Trump's Iran military campaign spreading rapidly across social media and drawing sharp reactions from both parties. The...

The father of Angelina Jolie is running out of time to repair their decades-long fractured relationship, and he knows it. Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight, now 87, has begun making urgent private appeals to his famous daughter for a single visit before she permanently relocates overseas, hoping to see her...

Readers of The Washington Post unleashed a torrent of criticism following the May 8, 2026, publication of an op-ed by First Lady Melania Trump, with many questioning whether the piece was satire and turning their anger toward the paper's owner, Jeff Bezos. The essay, titled "Mothers are America's Stength," called...

In the aftermath of a harrowing shooting that forced the evacuation of President Trump and top government officials from the White House Correspondents' Dinner, former President Barack Obama has issued a powerful plea for Americans to reject political violence and restore civility to the nation's democratic discourse. Obama's statement, posted...