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In late-night calls, Ofer Bronchtein, a French-Israeli activist, persuaded the French president to draft his historic plan to recognize a Palestinian state.

The majority-Black district held for 34 years by South Carolina Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn will survive intact, for now, after Republican state lawmakers rejected a plan to redraw congressional maps.

Many of the world's poorest places are getting even more difficult to live in as climate change fuels an upswing in natural disasters. One group says cash aid can help.

Democrats have a new candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine: Troy Jackson. In one of the country's most closely-watched races, he'll have less than 100 days to make his case.

NBA coaching legend Phil Jackson and basketball writer Sam Smith take their decades-long friendship to the page in their book Masters of the Game: A Conversational History of the NBA in 75 players.

Payments on federal student loans have been paused for two years, and the Biden administration appears to be considering extending the pause beyond May.

Motivated to avenge their families in China, Uyghur mercenaries became valued fighting partners for Syria's rebels. Their participation helped Syria's new president ultimately win Syria's civil war.

On her 12th album, the most dominant pop star of our era makes a spectacle of herself in full flower, in love and holding the music industry in the palm of her hand.

George McGovern, Arlen Specter, Warren Rudman, Dan Inouye ... just some of the political giants who died in 2012. This week's super-sized Political Junkie column is dedicated to their memory.

Every ten years, film magazine Sight & Sound polls hundreds of critics and crowns the best film of all time. On Wednesday, Vertigo ended Citizen Kane's 50-year reign at the top of the list. But can Vertigo fulfill the title's duties like Kane did? What does it take to be the greatest of all time?