A high-ranking Mexican drug cartel leader accused of faking his death to avoid capture was sentenced Thursday to more than 11 years in U.S. prison for his money laundering role in one of his home ...

Bashar al-Assad’s long, brutal reign ended swiftly, but he and his close circle have had a soft landing in Russia. Credit...Aaron Byrd Supported by By Erika Solomon Christiaan Triebert Haley Willis ...

Bashar al-Assad's post-presidency looks less like a bunker and more like a gated compound outside Moscow. The ousted Syrian leader is even revisiting the medical career he once shelved for politics, ...

Each day, Times Insider editors scour the newspaper for the most interesting facts to appear on our pages. This year, tidbits about plastic recycling, whale sharks and crab Rangoon enlightened and ...

For more than 100 years, his short story, “To Build a Fire,” was required reading for nearly every school kid in the US, most likely to teach them the necessity of survival, though the tale might also ...

What's that? You don't know who Mike Spohr is? You never bother to look at the byline to see who wrote what? You mainly read BuzzFeed while on the toilet and barely skim the actual post let alone the ...

Upper class is always hard to define, and it’s something of a moving target. Between lifestyle choices, regional costs and inflation, “upper class” most definitely means different things to different ...