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There are plenty of memoirs of China's Cultural Revolution written from the perspective of elite intellectuals. But Hong Ying's story is different; in her youth, the writer was the sixth child in a crushingly poor family. Novelist Karen Ma says Hong Ying's memoir, Daughter of the River is unflinching, unapologetic and incredibly powerful.

In Aurora, officer Nathan Woodyard has been acquitted of all charges in the 2019 killing of Elijah McClain, who died after being put in a carotid hold by police and given ketamine by paramedics.

Travis King, who fled to North Korea before being returned home to the United States last month, has been detained by the U.S. military, two officials said Thursday.

The bombing of the Gaza hospital has sparked anger across the Arab world — including on the streets. In Amman, Jordan, security forces tear gassed protestors trying to reach the Israeli embassy.

Philadelphia – city of brotherly love, birthplace of American democracy. And the only place in the world where presidential flags are made.

Israel's attacks on Gaza are intensifying, but the strategy of the operation remains unclear.

More than 2 million people dance and drink, day and night, for Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. All that pleasure involves quite a bit of pain. Ask the samba superathletes in 7-inch heels.

Traffic is stopped at the nerve center of the country's federal government. It's part of a standoff between the government and two opposition politicians who accuse the government of corruption.

Residents of the Paterson, N.J., community say nearly everyone there knows someone killed in the Israel-Hamas war.

The people of Pakistan may be far more celebrated for cricket than soccer, but that doesn't deter them from taking great pride that their country manufactured the official 2014 World Cup ball.