The Africa Organised Crime Index 2025 revealed that criminality in South Africa is worse than in war zones like Sudan, Somalia, Mali, and Niger. The index is published by the European Union-funded ...

Ankush Khardori is a senior writer for POLITICO Magazine and a former federal prosecutor at the Department of Justice. His column, Rules of Law, offers an unvarnished look at national legal affairs ...

Slavery. Drugs. Weapons. Corruption. These are the hallmarks of transnational organized crime--a multi-billion-dollar industry that operates across borders, exploiting vulnerable people and ...

In 1969, a now-iconic commercial first popped the question, “How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?” This deceptively simple line in a 30-second script managed ...

Washington, D.C. should be a symbol of pride and patriotism for the American people — and a safe location for tourists, residents, and public servants. Unfortunately, while Fake News journalists and ...

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Endemic vagrancy, disorderly behavior, sudden confrontations, and violent attacks have made our cities unsafe. The number of individuals living on the streets in the ...

Melissa McCart is the lead editor of the Northeast region with more than 20 years of experience as a reporter, critic, editor, and cookbook author. Much like Daniel Boulud’s new (showier) Flatiron ...

In a city that has already seen nearly 500 youth gun arrests this year, a unique effort is underway to empower some of those young people to put their lives on a new path. CBS News' Michael George has ...

A contentious investigation that questioned the legality of E.P.A. grants has found very little to suggest government employees violated the law. By Devlin Barrett Glenn Thrush and Adam Goldman ...

Amalendu Misra is a recipient of Nuffield Foundation and British Academy Fellowships. The president of Peru, Dina Boluarte, declared a state of emergency in the capital city, Lima, on March 18. The ...

At least 121,695 people were murdered in Latin America and the Caribbean during 2024, putting the median homicide rate at around 20.2 per 100,000 people, about the same rate as 2023. The already ...