U.S. Attorney General William Barr faced growing criticism from Democrats on Friday after the Justice Department said it had intensified its politically charged review of the origins of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. A person familiar with the matter late on Thursday confirmed that the inquiry had become a criminal investigation, […]

Ivan Archivaldo Guzman, the leader of Los Chapitos wing of the Sinaloa Cartel and also El Chapo’s son, was behind the assault on security forces that prompted the release of his half-brother from a house in the city of Culiacan last week, a top Mexican official said. The men’s father is Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, […]

  Pope Francis has asked for forgiveness for the theft of indigenous statues from a church near the Vatican, and says they have been recovered, undamaged. ‘`As bishop of the diocese [of Rome], I ask forgiveness” for what happened, Francis has said during a session of the Vatican’s summit on the Amazon, according to reports […]

The mummified body of a woman, whose corpse is believed by authorities to have been left in her apartment for 15 years, was discovered in the Spanish capital, Madrid, officials on Friday said. The woman’s niece had informed the Police, they added, who then called in firefighters and public officials to break down the apartment […]

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday accused China of curtailing “rights and liberties” in Hong Kong and blasted U.S. company Nike and the National Basketball Association for falling in line with Beijing in a disagreement over free speech. In a major policy speech on China that touched on an array of disputes ahead of […]