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At least two people in Texas are dead as a result of Harvey, a storm that landed as a category 4 hurricane earlier this week. Houston Public Media reporter Gail Delaughter reports on the flooding.

A new proposed curriculum for Hong Kong schools is missing key parts of modern Chinese history. The struggle over education is the latest battle with China over how the city is governed.

As researchers and engineers analyze the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, it's becoming clear that Houston's runaway development had a big role to play in flooding.

Gobee is a no-go, at least in France: The first dockless bike-sharing program to launch in that country has shut down French operations after thousands of bikes were stolen or destroyed.

The incident renews scrutiny of the city and its police department following the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died of asphyxiation after an encounter with police in March.

Carjackings have increased by huge numbers in several cities and many of the suspects are juveniles. Communities are grappling with enforcing the law while also embracing rehabilitation.

The president went to the Wisconsin city where 29-year-old Jacob Blake, a Black man, was shot and seriously wounded by police and where two people were shot and killed in subsequent unrest.

San Francisco voted to severely restrict how police and the city use surveillance technology. The board of supervisors banned facial recognition, saying it is uniquely oppressive and dangerous.

Thousands of people are traveling this summer to COVID-19 hotspots and coming back to the Bloomington-Normal and the Tri-County areas — and none of them…

People inside the Chinese city of Wuhan describe a coronavirus situation that sounds increasingly desperate as more of them fall sick and scramble to get treatment and hospital beds