Russia is banned from the Paris Olympics, but its athletes aren’t. Instead, they’ll be competing as Individual Neutral Athletes, without their country’s flags.

Catholic Church leaders in southern Mexico have made a desperate plea for the Mexican government to protect communities from drug cartels that extract protection payments and use locals as human shields near the border with Guatemala.

Listings for recently announced concerts, special concerts and shows and on-base theater.

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner and its two NASA astronaut passengers cannot come home yet, but officials said a decision could come next week on when they could make their return to Earth.

Federal authorities have indicted a North Korean military intelligence operative in a conspiracy to hack into American medical centers, military bases and even NASA. The grand jury indictment announced Thursday in Kansas City accuses Rim Jong Hyok of ransomware attacks and other hacks on targets in the U.S., China, Taiwan and South Korea.

Ethnic armed groups in Myanmar are claiming to have captured two strategically important towns in the northeast. Their fall would be the biggest in a series of setbacks suffered by Myanmar’s military government this year.

A month after a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling granted officials new authority to police homelessness, California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday ordered state agencies to ramp up encampment sweeps and urged local governments to do the same.

Typhoon Gaemi has made landfall on China’s southeastern coast after sweeping across Taiwan, where it caused landslides and flooding and left three dead. Gaemi had swept up the western Pacific, intensifying seasonal rains earlier in the week in the Philippines, where the death toll has climbed to 22.

The fire inside Jajaira Gonzalez dimmed to an ember in the next half-decade as she navigated depression, a high-profile relationship, astint in the Army and an anxiety-laced malaise familiar to many whose adolescent dreams just never came true.

After nine months of Israel’s all-out war against Hamas, the group’s government remains a key source of civil authority across the Gaza Strip - a testament to the organization’s reach and resiliency, and the limits of the military campaign aimed at eradicating its influence.