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The Venezuelan authorities have launched a nationwide sweep, called Operation Knock-Knock, that is targeting anyone even perceived to be challenging the autocratic president’s re-election.

The Olympics have long been a stage for political expression, for athletes who take the opportunity. Some do, while others choose to focus strictly on their sport.

An Australian start-up is hoping fungi can pull carbon dioxide from the air and stash it underground. It’s one of several ventures trying to deploy the superpowers of soil to slow global warming.

The star rapper had been accused on Friday of assaulting a security guard at a luxury hotel in Paris. No charges were filed against him, according to prosecutors.

The markings on a pillar in southern Turkey are more than decorations on the stone, a researcher at the University of Edinburgh says. They may memorialize a time when comet fragments struck Earth.

The twin-engine turboprop passenger aircraft crashed near São Paulo, killing all 62 people onboard. Officials are investigating the cause.

Breaking, the hip-hop dance style born in the Bronx five decades ago, is now an Olympic sport.

The pandemic made willing partners of retailers and restaurants to rethink how streets for cars can be converted into spaces for pedestrians.

Israel said the compound, where people were sheltering, had also been operating as a headquarters for militants.

An American pediatrician spent three weeks in one of Gaza’s last functioning hospitals. He shared a record of what he witnessed, including rare footage from inside the hospital, with The New York Times.