A Mexican government commission concluded that the disappearance of 43 Mexican students in 2014 was state-sponsored.

The dispute about which country gets gas from the Timor Sea is heating up again. Australia, or East Timor?

There is only one acceptable decision: nobody. There is no room in the carbon budget for that gas. It must stay under the sea.

Other countries should support East Timor so that this step, necessary for civilization's survival, does not cause a bigger disaster to East Timor than is going to hit world wide.

The story of a 30-year-old man who returned to his old high school, pretending to be a teenager, and graduated a second time.

I wonder what grounds the medical school cited for expelling him after that. His giving a false name and age may have been irregular, but they did not harm anyone, including the medical school. If he was doing well enough in his studies there, why not regularize his status instead?

It is absurd to claim that having an abortion requires more "maturity" than having a baby, but that's what a judge in Florida ruled.

That teenager needs to get herself to a state which will let her have an abortion. I hope her guardian will help.

A Texas thug threw Christopher Shaw down on the concrete in jail, and this paralyzed him below the chest. Permanently, it seems.