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A judge has denied a family’s attempt to sue Lebanon on allegations that the country’s security agency kidnapped and tortured their family member before he died in the U.S. The family’s lawsuit filed last year against Iran says Amer Fakhoury developed lymphoma and other serious medical issues while imprisoned during…

Request comes after Biden returns from Saudi trip in which he claims to have raised journalist’s murder with crown prince

John Bates, a US district court judge, has given the Biden administration until 1 August to indicate whether it has an interest in the Khashoggi civil case

Court invitation to clarify prince’s status comes as president faces criticism for ditching promise to turn Saudi Arabia into a ‘pariah’

Working under the label Jean Varon, Bates became an overnight success by dressing Diana Rigg to devastating effect in ‘The Avengers’

Designer whose costumes for the TV series The Avengers encapsulated fashion’s mid-60s turn towards youth

But can Carson Wentz be more than a game manager in Washington’s offense?

The Washington Commanders selected Nevada tight end Cole Turner with the No. 149 overall selection.

‘At least some species are nesting as much as 25 days earlier now than . . . in the early 1900s and late 1800s,’ researcher John Bates says.

Many species of birds are nesting and laying eggs nearly a month earlier than they did 100 years ago in the Chicago area

CHICAGO -- Some Chicago birds are nesting nearly a month earlier than they did more than a century ago. And like some other shifts happening around the Great Lakes region as temperatures rise and the timing of the natural world drifts, there’s a familiar driver: climate change.