Alexandra Zavis

A skinny boy named Ammar, who is 12 but looks much younger, spent Monday playing with his sister’s 10-month-old daughter, Layla, at the cramped apartment where they both lived in...

The crowd was seething with frustration. “We want to go inside!” one man yelled. “They told us when Raqqah is liberated we can go home.” Some of the U.S.-backed fighters...

The conclusions contained in a draft federal report on climate change are unequivocal: Human-induced global warming is real, and left unchecked, the consequences could be dire. Although not new, the...

When the Kind Clinic began offering free or low-cost hormone therapy for transgender people in March, word spread quickly here. Within days, the service was booked up until the end...

Four assailants tied up an 18-year-old mentally disabled man, taped his mouth and slashed at his scalp with a knife as he cowered in a corner. A group of men...

Tucked against a fence in an East Los Angeles cemetery, a long, flat headstone reads: "In memory of the 16,500 precious unborn, buried here, Oct. 6, 1985." The aborted fetuses...