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Mayor Edilberto Molina (right), alongside Lt. Col. Óscar Usme aboard a well-armed Colombian Navy boat, tour the Caguán River which flows past Cartagena del Chairá.

Facing death threats, a Colombian mayor makes a daring visit to the town he runs

John Otis

Mayor Edilberto Molina relocated to a nearby town last year after drug-trafficking guerrillas threatened to kill him. He's not the only Colombian politician forced away by threats from criminal gangs.

The former ESMA (The Navy School of Mechanics) in Buenos Aires was used as a clandestine detention camp where civilians were tortured and killed. It has been converted into a "museum of memory" and is now home to human rights groups and exhibits about the dictatorship.

'El Juicio (The Trial)' details the 1976-'83 Argentine dictatorship's reign of terror

Bob Mondello

Forty years after the fall of an Argentine military dictatorship that tortured and murdered tens of thousands of civilians, a video record of its trial has its U.S. premiere at Film Forum in New York.

Tina Fey and Michelle Yeoh join Kenneth Branagh in <em>A Haunting in Venice.</em>

The big twist in 'A Haunting in Venice'? It's actually a great film

Justin Chang

Kenneth Branaugh is back as Hercule Poirot, and it's hard not to enjoy his company in this unusually spooky murder mystery based on Agatha Christie's 1969 novel Hallowe'en Party.

Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and his wife Nadine Menendez arrive for the State Dinner with President Joe Biden and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House on June 22 in Washington.

Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez has been indicted on federal corruption charges

Jaclyn Diaz

The indictment accuses Menendez of accepting "hundreds of thousands of dollars of bribes in exchange for using" his power and influence to enrich him, his co-defendants and the government of Egypt.

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who is running for governor, called his opponent's latest campaign ads "despicable".

Kentucky's near-total abortion ban takes center stage in gubernatorial election

Sylvia Goodman

Incumbent Gov. Andy Beshear's latest campaign ad features a victim of rape and incest calling out Republican AG Daniel Cameron's support of the current state abortion ban.

Zelenksyy defends Ukraine's spending of Western aid and his refusal to negotiate with Russia

Steve Inskeep

Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he is making an effort to answer any legitimate questions concerning his administration and its conduct during the war in Ukraine.

UAW workers picket outside of the Stellantis Mopar parts facility in Naperville, Ill., on Sept. 22, 2023. The union is expanding its strike against GM and Stellantis citing the lack of progress in talks for a new contract.

UAW significantly ramps up strikes against GM and Stellantis — but not Ford

Danielle Kaye

UAW workers at 38 GM and Stellantis faciilties across 20 states walked off their jobs, though Ford was not hit with new strikes. President Biden is set to attend a picket line next week.

This mosaic composed of images of the asteroid Bennu taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows its surprisingly rubble-strewn surface.

NASA effort to bring home asteroid rocks will end this weekend in triumph or a crash

Nell Greenfieldboyce

NASA's first effort to retrieve samples from an asteroid will send a capsule that contains extraterrestrial pebbles and dust plunging towards a Utah desert on Sunday.

A storm brewing off the southeastern U.S. coast is likely to strengthen over the next day or two as it hits North Carolina, forecasters said, posing flooding and other threats.

Tropical storm Ophelia puts patch of North Carolina under hurricane watch

Emma Bowman

The storm is expected to hit North Carolina early Saturday, forecasters said, posing flooding and other threats as far north as New Jersey into Sunday.

Florence Griffith-Joyner celebrates with her gold medal after winning the Women's 100 meters final event during the 1988 Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea.

Remembering Olympic gold medalist Florence 'Flo-Jo' Griffith Joyner

Ashley Montgomery

Olympic gold medalist Florence "Flo-Jo" Griffith Joyner died 25 years ago on Sept. 21, 1998. The sprinter's world records for the 100 meter and 200 meter events remain unbroken.