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Data on spending this week shows that consumers are shopping big for the holidays despite inflation and economic worries.

The U.S. military has killed more than 80 people since the campaign began in early September. But it does not know who specifically is being killed.

In Webster Springs, everyone knows one another. When National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom was killed, that connection was even further strengthened.

We spoke with dozens of people living with hunger in the United States. These are their stories.

The opposition has accused the president of putting a general in charge of the government so that he could stay in power.

Malaysia launched a “year of enforcement” in response to a surge in undocumented migrants, many of them from Myanmar. Some faced nightmarish fates.

First, Newport, Ore., lost its Coast Guard rescue chopper. Then came the swirl of rumors and evidence that Immigration and Customs Enforcement was coming to town.

Venezuela doesn’t play a large role in the drug trade to the United States, so what is motivating the massive military buildup? Julian E. Barnes, who reports on intelligence and international security, discusses the issues with our senior writer

Robert Menendez, a former Democratic senator, has been in prison since June. He hasn’t seen his wife, who is set to begin serving her sentence next summer.

Forecasters say a winter storm could disrupt travel, bringing up to two feet of snow across parts of the Midwest through the holiday weekend.