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We asked leaders in global health and development to share their wishes for the new year. Here's what they hope will happen in the year ahead. And readers, we'd like to hear from you.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has beaten his Republican challenger. Beshear is a blue governor in a red state, and the race saw national politics as a primary issue.

President Xiomara Castro, the country's first female leader, announced the policy shift in the final hours of International Women's Day.

Elected officials are (almost) the oldest they have ever been in Washington which is causing discussions over what it means to be fit for office.

The U.S. Constitution bans slavery except as punishment for a crime. A growing number of states have tried to address this in their own constitutions, but prisoners say the only change is on paper.

A mystery has been brewing in a small ranching town on Hawaii's Big Island. Word has it that Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff bought the land, stirring worries about what he plans to do with it.

As the first full year since Roe v. Wade was overturned closes, the abortion landscape in the U.S. has changed legally, politically and medically.

We tell ourselves a heroic story of ""The Greatest Generation"" and its victory, but tend to leave out the Black people who made the victory possible. That's where Matthew Delmont focuses in his book ""Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad.

Peter Antonacci, the head of Florida's elections fraud office, had just left a heated meeting when he collapsed in the hallway of the governor's office, according to a newly released investigation.

The 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck the same region around Herat, which was devastated by a previous temblor on October 7.