Carter hosted then-Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe at the White House soon after his country achieved independence and later described Zimbabwe's adoption of democracy as “our greatest single ...

Carter's resolve to chart a course toward democracy and diplomacy, however, was severely tested in Central America and Cuba, where he was forced to balance his human rights priorities with ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Top-ranked chess player Magnus Carlsen is headed back to the World Blitz Championship on Monday after its governing body agreed to loosen a dress code that got him fined and ...

I fear for the future of American democracy. This is not simply a reaction to the Nov. 5 election, but a serious worry that I have had for several years; indeed, in August, I published a book on ...

AI dominated tech news this year, but has the technology actually been improving? We review the leaps we've seen, as well as what's new in the world of quantum computing. When you purchase through ...

The hard lesson of 2024 is that liberals spent too much time fretting that Donald Trump would subvert democracy if he lost and not enough that Trump would win a free and fair election. We can ...

Across four continents, incumbent leaders were swept from office in elections that often sparked violence but ultimately achieved a central function of democracy: the orderly transfer of power in ...

The G7 is the “steering committee of the free world”, according to Jake Sullivan, President Joe Biden’s national security adviser. If so, the free world has a problem. The majority of G7 ...

Democracy looks bruised but not beaten as it heads into 2025. In a year in which countries representing almost half the world's population called voters to the polls, democracies endured violence ...

From cataloguing the year’s biggest breakthroughs in emerging technology to exploring the far future, 2024 kept us busy. Another year is coming to a close, so let’s look back at the MIT ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Marianne Jean-Baptiste, a cast member in the film “Hard Truths,” poses for a portrait during the Toronto ...