Aziz Ansari found himself answering some hard questions from Jimmy Kimmel this week, following his appearance at the Riyadh Comedy Festival, a government-supported comedy festival…

Zhang Zhan, a citizen-journalist from China who attracted worldwide notice for her reporting from Wuhan at the start of the COVID-19 epidemic, has been sentenced…

The Taliban has announced an expansive internet ban in five northern provinces, asserting “immoral activities” as the rationale for the action. The decision, made by…

Byron Black, a 69-year-old death row inmate in Tennessee, was executed by lethal injection Tuesday morning despite urgent concerns from his legal team and medical…

A former student of the Berklee College of Music, Xiaolei Wu, has been sentenced to nine months in prison following threats made against a pro-democracy…

In a recent and rigorous enforcement operation, authorities in El Salvador have detained approximately one percent of the country’s population. This widespread effort aimed to…

In a significant development in capital punishment, Alabama has executed Kenneth Smith, marking the first known use of nitrogen gas for this purpose in the…