It was clear early on that this year’s Oscars would offer more than pomp, vanity and fodder for the fashion police. On the hallowed red carpet, Armani, Louis Vuitton and Gucci ceded ground to ...

A day after taking his oath at the Texas Capitol in January, freshman Texas state Representative Kyle Biedermann mailed out a “survey” to Muslim leaders in Texas that was, in effect, an oath of ...

Like many of the detainees resettled in Uruguay and elsewhere, Moammar Badawi Dokhan, a 43-year-old Syrian, settled into a quieter life in Portugal when he was transferred there in 2009 from ...