When the Supreme Court declared a constitutional right to same-sex marriage in 2015, Chief Justice John Roberts revealed extraordinary anger as he read aloud what for him was an unprecedented dissent from the bench.
Lake Montbel is a shimmering, turquoise lake, stretching across 1,400 acres of southwest France, in the foothills of the Pyrenees -- a haven for wildlife, a vital source of irrigation for farmers and water for local rivers, and a tourist paradise. But after the driest winter in more than six decades, it is a shadow of its former self.
Water cascading from a wall of ice with gray brushstrokes of clouds overhead makes for a beautiful image -- but the story behind it is one of destruction; Earth's glaciers are melting at an unprecedented rate due to human-caused climate change.
Tennis great Boris Becker says he's grateful just to be alive as he reflected on spending time in prison in an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour.
Vladimir Putin last week gave details of Russia's stated intent to base tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. The flurry of alarmist reporting on what this meant highlights much of what is wrong with Western responses to Russian nuclear intimidation.
China's newly minted Premier Li Qiang painted a bullish picture of his country's economic recovery at a key business forum this week, as Beijing seeks to win the hearts of global investors and economic leaders after emerging from its long pandemic isolation.
"The dynamism and momentum of China's economic growth is strong," Li said Thursday in a keynote speech at the Boao Forum for Asia, a four-day gathering of international business leaders and politicians on the Chinese island of Hainan.
Daniel Powter's "Bad Day" was topping the Billboard Hot 100, Owen Wilson had just made his debut as Lightning McQueen in "Cars" and Sacramento Kings forward Keegan Murray was counting down the days to his sixth birthday.
More than 70 years after cheetahs were declared officially extinct in India, the country is now home to four newborn cheetahs, India's Environment Minister announced Wednesday.
Soccer's world governing body FIFA has stripped Indonesia of its right to host the Under-20 Men's World Cup later this year after an Indonesian official objected to the participation of Israel.
A slowdown in global initial public offerings continued in the first quarter of 2023 and is likely to endure in the coming months, as companies wait out the effects of volatile stock markets, higher interest rates and inflation, and uncertainty around the banking crisis.
Paul Rusesabagina, who inspired the Hollywood film "Hotel Rwanda" and was freed from prison in Kigali last week, returned to the United States on Wednesday, arriving at the US Army's Brooke Army Medical Center at Joint Base San Antonio, according to a State Department official.
Reps. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) had a tense exchange over gun control legislation following the deadly school shooting in Nashville.