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During months of protests, the territory's chief executive has suffered setbacks in the streets and at the ballot box. But she still enjoys support from China, where she paid a visit Monday.

Richard Hatcher, the former mayor of Gary, Ind., died last week. NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Ravi Perry of Howard University about the 1970s and '60s wave of African American mayors like Hatcher

If more women were put in charge, former President Barack Obama says, "There would be less war, kids would be better taken care of and there would be a general improvement."

They aim to pack public squares like sardines in a can, in protest against the far-right, anti-immigrant wave rising in Italian society and politics.

Nepali police recently made their first-ever arrest for the outlawed practice of banishing women to huts during their periods. But advocates say legal measures aren't enough to keep women safe.

"You are the ones bringing pain and suffering to our Republic for your own selfish personal, political, and partisan gain," Trump wrote in a six-page letter.

Some see worrisome signs for the international trading system that grew up after World War II, following a week that saw an update to NAFTA, a preliminary U.S.-China deal and a big step toward Brexit.

The 77-year-old former vice president released an upbeat medical report Tuesday.

The presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ordered the government, in so many words, to explain why the court should accept what it submits when it applies for warrants.

Some of the reasons for the surge are expected — heavy rainfalls create lots of pools where mosquitoes can breed. But there are some surprising factors, like the Zika virus.