Courtney Rukan is The Washington Post's deputy multiplatform editing chief. She worked in Sports as a copy editor and the desk chief from 1999 to 2009, and then moved to Style in 2009 before she was ...

LAGOS, Nigeria — The first Ebola patients confirmed in Kenya and Nigeria might have crossed paths at an airport in Uganda ...

A 79-year-old Colorado pastor who lost 35 pounds and the strength to walk after being placed in immigration detention 13 ...

DAKAR, Senegal — The deadly Ebola outbreak that began in Congo in May is outpacing efforts to contain it, spreading to two other regions of Africa and taking advantage of gaps in surveillance. The ...

ABU SIMBEL, Egypt — Hundreds of tourists from around the world and locals gathered at dawn Thursday at a temple in southern Egypt, with some sleeping outside it overnight to witness a solar phenomenon ...

Why a fake poll got into mainstream poll trackers, how it was discovered and the common thread behind both fake poll scandals ...

Lucas, the 82-year-old president pro tempore of the Virginia Senate, is one of the state’s most powerful Democrats.

The full Justice Dept. indictment alleges that Lucas and her relatives set up a business to sell marijuana before the ...

A magnitude 7 earthquake has struck China’s Tibet on Thursday evening, with no immediate reports of damage or casualties ...

The Wednesday twister came amid a widely predicted severe weather outbreak that also dumped hail larger than golf balls on the Phoenix metro area, shattering vehicle windshields.

Under a new Airbnb rule, guests will no longer have to complete a laundry list of housekeeping tasks at the time of checkout.

Arch Manning leading No. 19 Texas against No. 7 Mississippi was supposed to be weeklong family stroll down memory lane. Grandfather Archie Manning was a Hall of Fame quarterback for the Rebels. So was ...