General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a...

An Instagram post turned one California student newspaper into a free-speech flash point. The students say they were just doing their homework.

​Some 20,000 ​seafarers are stranded in the Persian Gulf. Many are ​dodging drones or rationing food as they wait for an escape plan.

A US agency abruptly closed an investigation into allegations that Meta Platforms Inc. can access encrypted WhatsApp messages, said two people familiar with the matter, ending a law enforcement inquir...

Sanctioned traders, including Hossein Shamkhani, have been able to move oil through the Strait of Hormuz and exploit higher prices.

The high-stakes conflict between the Defense Department and a $380 billion tech powerhouse goes to the heart of just how far AI can go in warfare.

Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees

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Hospitals around the world use drugs from a small but crucial Indian supplier. In Colombia four children died and more than a hundred fell ill.

After a private equity giant was brought in to manage facilities in Africa and Asia, complaints piled up.

TPG told investors — including the World Bank, the Gates Foundation and Bono — that it would expand access to health care. Whistleblowers say it put profit ahead of patient safety.

President Donald Trump has praised Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as a crime fighter, but new reporting based on interviews and documents reveals how senior Salvadoran officials have impeded a U.S....

Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws.

The NPR producer is one of few Palestinian journalists working with a U.S. news organization to file dispatches from Gaza.

East African leaders and Saudi royals are among those profiting off a lucrative, deadly trade in domestic workers.

As federal health agencies are gutted with abandon, a Florida attorney with a history of hunting with the president’s son has been put in charge of food safety at the FDA, overseeing the nation’s food...

The case went forward, but the unusual request has contributed to a growing sense of unease inside the agency’s enforcement division, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Department of Health and Human Services laid off employees Saturday evening across some of its biggest agencies — the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Food and Drug Administration, ...

The Trump administration’s push to shutter the agency means it's unable to warn the US military where aid workers are operating

Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.

Most employees of the US Agency for International Development will be placed on administrative leave starting Friday.

Young staffers from Musk’s government-efficiency initiative gained access to sensitive information to cap a weeklong effort that puts the aid agency’s fate in question.

Some of China’s senior doctors are raising concern over the quality of domestic generic medicines that have largely replaced western brand-name drugs at hospitals, amid a rare public backlash against ...

In Kampala, a group of midwives help vulnerable mothers give birth for free. Nearby a major for-profit hospital is out of reach for most of the community, sometimes with devastating consequences. (Sou...

Billions of taxpayer dollars invested in for-profit facilities from Africa to Asia were supposed to improve access to healthcare. But stories of abuses have piled up.

Billions of taxpayer dollars invested in for-profit facilities from Africa to Asia were supposed to improve access to healthcare. But stories of abuses have piled up.

Si un medicamento se contamina, puede ser mortal. Pasó en una clínica de Colombia, donde varios niños recibieron quimioterapia contaminada con una bacteria.

They’re still in shock. But for now, even in a blue city in a blue state, disaster does not bring climate change to residents’ front of mind.

Following human eggs as they’re exchanged across open, gray and black markets — reaping rewards for an extremely high price.

Also the Macy’s oopsie and the Hawk Tuah memecoin.

Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospital’s highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did th...

Protecting land and appointing judges could go a long way toward bolstering Biden’s legacy.