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Dean Heller is the only Republican in the Senate up for re-election in a state that Hillary Clinton won. Latino union workers are a key voting bloc for his Democratic opponent, Rep. Jacky Rosen.

China's leaders try to muzzle free expression beyond their borders, inside liberal democracies, when speech contradicts the Communist Party line on issues like the status of Tibet and Taiwan.

The repeat offender has fascinated the country, and is known there as the "jailbreak king." Rédoine Faïd was serving a 25-year-sentence for a botched armed robbery in 2010 that killed a policewoman.

After Kavanaugh called attacks on him "a calculated and orchestrated political hit," the advertising war escalated.

The seeds, which are used to make ricin but are not dangerous by themselves, tested positive in a screening center for hazardous substances.

The Danish airline Primera Air this week announced its bankruptcy filing while flights were still in the air. Thousands of passengers were left stranded at ticket counters.

Authorities in Florence, S.C., are in mourning after a man shot seven law enforcement officers Wednesday. One officer, a 30-year police veteran, was killed.

Heavy drinking can lead to alcohol-induced amnesia. It can be total or it can be spotty. Either way, it can be difficult for a bystander, or even the inebriated person, to know when it has happened.

Facebook and its CEO have come up against "a growing and really serious decline of public trust, both among politicians and among the general public," New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos says.

Researchers are proposing the creation of a refrigerated Noah's ark for beneficial human bacteria-- like the Global Seed Vault.