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Byline: Jack Ewing and Dionne Searcey Rental car firms are offering temporary deals on electric cars, which they are selling after they lost value more quickly than expected. If you've [...]

Producers of biofuels like ethanol, which could help create a new generation of jet fuel, would have to overhaul their practices to receive tax credits. In a move aimed at [...]

Environmentalists and American meat producers alike are asking regulators to keep JBS, the world's biggest meatpacker, off the New York Stock Exchange. A giant Brazilian meatpacking company is facing persistent [...]

The state is courting high-tech investments, but a new industrial park may lack enough water. Opponents say piping it from miles away might dry out residential wells. When Indiana officials [...]

The state is courting high-tech investments, but a new industrial park may lack enough water. Opponents say piping it from miles away might dry out residential wells. When Indiana officials [...]

ELK CREEK, Neb. -- In this rural part of Nebraska, county-board agendas include moratoriums on solar farms and some residents scowl when they pass the handful of wind farms that [...]

Peatlands and rainforests in the Congo Basin protect the planet by storing carbon. Now, in a giant leap backward for the climate, they're being auctioned off for drilling. DAKAR, Senegal [...]

Members of the global group share the painter's passion for using art to explore social change. A Congolese painter whose art reflects how globalization and consumerism have transformed African society. [...]

Sunlight is not typically associated with the dingy basement vibe that envelops commuters passing through Penn Station. But natural light spills across the new Moynihan Train Hall through its massive, [...]

As the top elections officials in many states, secretaries of state are managing a level of chaos they never expected. A flood of mail-in ballots that will need processing. Foreign [...]

This election is not just about who will win, but also whether voters will be able to cast ballots and have them counted. Many Americans watch fireworks displays on Independence [...]

Saying the existing Police Department cannot be reformed, a majority of the City Council has promised to rethink public safety from the ground up in the wake of George Floyd's [...]

At a time when funeral gatherings are rare because of the coronavirus, a memorial service will honor the man who died in police custody. The Rev. Al Sharpton will give [...]

They are parallel plagues ravaging America: The coronavirus. And police killings of black men and women. Jimmy Mills's life has been upended by both. His barbershop in Midtown Minneapolis was [...]

The stomach-flipping thrill of riding the Zipper on the midway. The funnel cakes with powdered sugar melting on the fried dough. The shave ice. The sweet, smelly medley of hay, [...]

KONDUGA, Nigeria -- Ten-year-old Abdul stood on a dirt road in a village tucked between millet fields and pulled up his shirt. A fresh scar stretched lengthwise down his stomach [...]

ABUJA, Nigeria -- Muhammadu Buhari won the presidency in a historic election in Nigeria four years ago by promising to crush two scourges that had plagued the nation for years: [...]

DAKAR, Senegal -- As accusations of human rights violations pile up in Cameroon's two-front battle against secessionists and Islamist extremists, the United States has decided to scale back its military [...]

DAKAR, Senegal -- Rainy season flooding across Nigeria has killed more than 100 people, as water poured over the banks of the West African country's two major rivers, and into [...]

DAKAR, Senegal -- When the American ambassador took up his post in Cameroon late last year, he stepped into an increasingly troubled nation, locked in battle against Islamist militants in [...]

WASHINGTON -- In President Barack Obama's drive to close the Guantánamo prison, his administration struck deals with about three dozen nations to take in lower-risk detainees from dangerous countries. Resettling [...]

WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson sought to mend fences with Africa on Tuesday as he embarked on a five-nation tour across the continent, promising $533 million in [...]

Byline: JAIME YAYA BARRY and DIONNE SEARCEY DAKAR, Senegal -- A decade after construction began, Senegal opened a new airport on Thursday, the centerpiece of an ambitious plan to try [...]

DAKAR, Senegal -- The clinic, tucked discreetly inside the student health center on the University of Dakar campus, prescribes birth control pills, hands out condoms and answers questions about sex [...]

DAKAR, Senegal -- Four days into his term, tucked into a sofa 150 miles outside the country he was elected to rule, President Adama Barrow of Gambia pledged on Sunday [...]

ARUSHA, Tanzania -- Less than two years after it blocked a sale of American-made attack helicopters to Nigeria from Israel because of human rights concerns, the Obama administration says it [...]

MINAWAO REFUGEE CAMP, Cameroon -- Hold the bomb under your armpit to keep it steady, the women and girls were taught. Sever your enemy's head from behind, to minimize struggling. [...]

Byline: ERIC SCHMITT and DIONNE SEARCEY DAKAR, Senegal -- The Pentagon is poised to send dozens of Special Operations advisers to the front lines of Nigeria's fight against the West [...]

The Obama administration on Wednesday announced a program to connect thousands of public housing residents across the nation to the Internet at low prices or free, part of a broader [...]

The federal regulator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac plans to lower the mortgage fees paid by some borrowers, but the move would amount to only modest help for risky [...]

AT&T Inc. has withdrawn its offer for a 33.3% stake in Olimpia S.A., the holding company of Telecom Italia S.p.A., raising questions regarding the influence the Italian government has exerted in attempting to keep the company under Italian ownership. Implications regarding the role of government in business deals are discussed.

The United States says it will hold back funding for judicial reform in Haiti until a complete and competent investigation of the killings at an overcrowded prison in Les Cayes, Haiti is done. The riots began days after the earthquake which devastated the island. The Senate Appropriations Committee instituted the measure.

Lawyers to represent plaintiffs in the class-action lawsuit against Toyota Motor Co. over the failure of its automobile control systems and resulting accidents have been appointed by Judge James V. Selna. The leaders on the case are to be Elizabeth Cabraser, of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP in San Francisco and Steven Berman, of Hagens Berman LLP in Seattle. MS. Cabraser has wrangled settlements from Ford Motor Co. and others, and Mr. Berman has successfully obtained settlements from Exxon Mobil Corp. and Charles Schwab Corp.