Chile heads to the polls on Sunday, in a fiercely polarized election that mirrors the region's struggles with crime, inflation, and economic stagnation.

One is the stone plinth in the city's Plaza Italia, the central square where protesters battled nightly with police, torching ...

WE keep asking why the same names resurface in scandal after scandal. Why some lawmakers who were once jailed or shamed for pork-barrel abuses now appear again in flood-control rackets and ghost ...

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California may have a reputation as a bastion of blue, but there are only so many Democratic voters to go around. Under Proposition 50, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to gerrymander California’s ...

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Google Maps has incorrectly marked the Don Valley Parkway highway in Toronto as closed on Saturday, directing users to alternative roads if navigation was enabled in their cars. Drivers who weren't ...

Flag football has grown in popularity and will be introduced during the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles for men and women. Flag football is generally considered safer than traditional tackle ...

The U.S. Department of Justice will act to crack down on the sort of "race-based gerrymandering" at the heart of the Texas redistricting fight, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said Tuesday.

Finance Minister Mario Marcel, in a presentation to Congress, upped the government forecast for average copper prices for this year to $4.28 per pound, from $4.26 per pound previously. Sign up here.

SANTIAGO (Reuters) -Top copper supplier Chile on Wednesday bumped up its outlook for prices of the red metal, though it flagged lagging output from a major mine operated by Glencore and Anglo American ...