Shailaja Paik faced prejudice because of her family's Dalit caste and her gender. As a historian she's written ground-breaking books on India's Dalits and is now a MacArthur 'genius grant' awardee.

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said his country was facing “one of the most dangerous phases of its history” amid ...

This year, filmmaker Sterlin Harjo, poet Jericho Brown and disability rights activist Alice Wong are among the recipients of ...

A bus carrying young students and their teachers on a school trip caught fire in suburban Bangkok, leaving more than 20 ...

The threat comes as Israel launches a ground incursion against the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

In Nevada, 1 in 5 potential voters are Latino. That is a voting bloc with a lot of political power in a state where elections ...

A number of Wisconsinites are familiar with this, and there are calls to bolster a program that helps with well replacements ...

For the first time since 1996, both major parties have picked a veteran for vice president -- a fact that some veterans' ...

The Israeli military pressed its ground incursion into southern Lebanon on Tuesday, calling the operations “limited ...

The Justice Department's third-in-command talked about the department's pledge to fight hate crimes, and shared he was close ...

It allows counties to draft workers. Omaha's Douglas County is the only one to regularly use it. Here’s how the jury ...

As states around it were passing bathroom bills and trans health care bans, Minnesota, under Gov. Tim Walz, went in the other ...