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The great anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela died late Friday night in Johannesburg. South Africans woke up to the news this morning and crowds gathered outside the former Mandela family home in Soweto township. This is the home where he lived before he was arrested, before he was imprisoned for those long years, before he became an icon. The mood among the hundreds of people outside the house and on the surrounding blocks was anything but somber.

Lilia Nguyen's perception of everything around her changed when she went to the border to help Ukrainian refugees shortly after the war began. The change has been felt by other young Poles.

Trudeau's decision after almost a decade in power sets the stage for a succession fight to select a new prime minister.

President-elect Donald Trump has announced he will nominate Pete Hegseth, a Fox News host and Army veteran to be his secretary of defense. The 44-year-old Hegseth came as a surprise.

Under pressure from voters and his own members of parliament, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday that he will step down once his Liberal Party names a sucessor.

Florida Republicans are advancing legislation that could end Disney World's special status following a spat with the company over its criticism of the so-called "Don't Say Gay" law.

Long COVID — long-term effects from a coronavirus infection — has been a reality since the beginning of the pandemic. The patients who have it are desperate for answers that doctors don't yet have.

At a rural high school outside El Paso, Texas, the principal tries to inspire poor immigrants or kids of immigrants to go to college, though many have never seen one.

Since receiving presidential pardons, dozens of former Capitol rioters have gotten into more legal trouble. In Florida, Andrew Paul Johnson was sentenced to life in prison for child sex abuse.