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Hisako Hasegawa lived for decades in a New York City hotel, and was a mystery to those around her. And all through the years, she would return small favors with extreme kindness.

Heart of a Samurai tells the true story of 14-year-old Manjiro, a boy who was shipwrecked, rescued by whalers and taken to America. It was the late 1800s, when Japan was cut off from the outside world — until Manjiro returned and influenced the shogun to open the country to diplomacy.

In the largest health care strike in U.S. history, over 75,000 workers at Kaiser Permanente hospitals and medical facilities across the U.S. walked off the job on Wednesday morning.

With the growing popularity of tequila and mezcal in the U.S., a new generation of growers and distillers in the Southwest is trying to create a uniquely American agave liquor.

Those confirmed dead included one American, one Canadian and one person from England, all of whom had been living in Acapulco for some time and were not considered tourists, local prosecutors said.

Groundbreaking for the 173-mile canal is set for December, but critics warn the waterway will cause irreparable environmental and social damage. The government has withheld outside firms' assessments.

The Iran-backed rebel group has attacked multiple ships in the Red Sea throughout December. The Houthis control large swaths of Yemen's territory.

The puzzle of a girl's death propels Alina Grabowski's debut novel but, really, it's less about the mystery and more about how our actions impact each other, especially when we think we lack agency.

The British government has pushed the plan as a way to deter asylum-seekers from taking boats to Britain. But the U.N. human rights office has warned aviation authorities not to take part.

A federal affordable internet subsidy is going away and 3 million Californians must decide whether to end access largely considered a human right.