In Texas, the combination of abstinence education and anti-abortion stigma is driving some women away from abortion clinics — to unsafe do-it-yourself chemical abortions at home. Is the post-Roe era already here?

One of the world's greatest wildlife spectacles, the annual wildebeest migration, is jeopardized by plans to build a highway right through the Serengeti.

It was a Ugandan member of parliament who introduced the bill that would penalize homosexuality with life imprisonment or death, but the idea traces back to a secretive American evangelical movement known as The Family.

In 2009, in a tightening race against an African American opponent, Mayor Bloomberg paid $1.2 million to a political operative for "ballot security," often a ruse for voter suppression. He disguised the fee as a donation to the Independence Party — then failed to report it.

After deadly violence against Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan, President Islam Karimov seemed to embrace the flood of refugees back home. When, then, did he boot them out immediately?

Long before Arizona passed its anti-immigrant law, Sheriff Joe Arpaio was taking border enforcement into his own hands. His jail deported a dead man walking, and now a Mexican family grieves.

More than 800,000 people are arrested on marijuana charges each year in the US, many on the basis of an error-prone test.

The policies of Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, infamous for his zeal against undocumented immigrants, may soon go statewide. The story of one immigrant, who died soon after being deported to Mexico, may serve as a warning sign of the brutality ahead.

As a pervasive Chinese influence encroaches on Tibetan refugees' daily lives in Nepal, the frustrated and restless younger Tibetan generation is moving toward war.

Evangelicals have established schools, radio stations and churches in northern Iraq — all with the blessings of the Kurdistan government and assistance from U.S. taxpayers.

An unsettling trend of limiting press at major events shows that the Obama White House has regressed on transparency, limiting news access more severely than Bush.

A politically connected waste management company operates a radioactive waste dump in Texas that sits atop one of North America's largest aquifers — a recipe for environmental disaster.

US forces in Afghanistan may be facing another enemy: toxic sand. A new Navy study has found returning soldiers have memory loss and difficulty concentrating, which can't be attributed to brain injuries.

Two independent eyewitnesses say Iranian forces crossed the border into Iraq to arrest the three Americans last July. Then a rogue officer took over custody.