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LONDON — Terry Hall, the British musician and lead singer in the late 1970s ska-punk band the Specials, has died at 63, the group announced Monday. The songwriter — who left school at 15 and became a leader of the British punk scene by 22 — died following an illness, according to the band’s statement. […]

Comment on this story Comment Researchers have identified more than 150 new designs in Peru’s southern Nazca plain, known for its mysterious large-scale artwork carved into the desert. The latest images were discovered by archaeologists from Japan and Peru, who used high-resolution aerial and drone photos taken between June 2019 and February 2020 to identify […]

Comment on this story Comment A 97-year-old former secretary at a Nazi concentration camp was convicted Tuesday by a German court for her role as an accessory to more than 10,000 murders during the Holocaust, concluding what could be one of the last trials of its kind against Nazi staffers. Irmgard Furchner, a stenographer and […]

WASHINGTON—The Democratic-controlled House Ways and Means Committee voted along party lines Tuesday to publicly release a report on Donald Trump’s tax returns, which the former president has long tried to shield. Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., said supporting materials will be released along with the report. Texas Rep. Kevin Brady, the committee’s top Republican, raised […]

Comment on this story Comment GUATEMALA CITY — The United Nations and the European Union have condemned attacks on prosecutors and the weakening of anti-corruption efforts in Guatemala. Volker Turk, who heads the U.N.’s human rights office, criticized the Guatemalan government for the charges it brought against former prosecutors and whistleblowers like Virginia Laparra. “The […]

Comment on this story Comment The Afghanistan government banned women from studying in public and private universities Tuesday — the latest of the Taliban administration’s moves to roll back women’s rights in the nearly year and a half since it retook control of the country after U.S. withdrawal. A spokesman for the Ministry of Higher […]

Comment on this story Comment TORONTO — Eight teenage girls who apparently met on social media have been charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of a 59-year-old man, Toronto police said Tuesday. Investigators allege that the girls assaulted and stabbed the man in Toronto’s downtown core early Sunday morning. Police said medics took […]

EL PASO — Texas National Guard troops fanned out along the Rio Grande on Tuesday to line the riverbank with concertina wire and block the path of migrants attempting to reach this city, where shelters are already overflowing and a cold snap has sent temperatures plunging. More than 500 soldiers, acting under orders from Gov. […]

Jacob Luitjens, a Dutch-born botany professor who lived quietly for years in Canada before he was deported to the Netherlands in 1992 to serve a decades-old prison sentence for collaborating with the Nazis, a case that opened wounds as well as questions about justice in the wake of World War II, has died at 103. […]

More than one hundred migrants gathered on the sidewalk outside of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Downtown El Paso, Texas on Monday evening waiting for the church to open up for food services. Children huddled under blankets while others waited in line for bottles of water distributed by volunteers. But not all of them were […]