The Amazon Echo Dot is designed to accustom children to surveillance-based marketing from a young age.

There are several minority ethnic groups in Myanmar, and several of them don't want to be ruled by Burmese. They have fought on and off for decades to preserve their autonomy. Now the state is cracking down on the Kachin minority.

The mother of a US marine recounts how his stand-up-to-torture training experience traumatized him and he has not been the same since.

Moqtada al-Sadr's party got the most votes in Iraq's election.

He always struck me as acting more from principles than from greed or ambition, a great contrast to everyone else in Iraqi politics.

Texas State University wants students prosecuted for a sit-in against racism.