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The Eid festival, which celebrates the end of Ramadan, serves as a time for visiting relatives and exchanging gifts. But one family's holiday in Gaza traces the death and displacement wrought by the war between Hamas and Israel.

Voters in Turkey go to the polls on March 30 to elect local officials, and the election is seen as the first chance for Turks to weigh in on a number of major controversies. These include Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's increasingly autocratic governing style, the growing repression of free speech, and a corruption scandal that has claimed the jobs of three cabinet ministers thus far. The race for Istanbul mayor is seen as the best hope for Turkey's secular opposition to lift itself off the political mat and become a contender again.

Atlanta and Portland face on in Major League Soccer's championship on Saturday. Atlanta's team is only two years old and its success is due, in part, to massive fan support and a hometown strategy.

Bill Gardner has been a staunch defender of New Hampshire's first in the nation presidential primary but his association with President Trump's now-dissolved voter fraud panel has put him in a precarious position.

Facing a spate of illnesses linked with e-cigarettes, some states have temporarily banned selling various kinds of vaping items. But business owners who rely on those sales are pushing back in court.

Today was supposed to be a good day for detained Iraqis who were rounded up starting in the summer of 2017. A district court judge had ordered the remaining 110 of the group to be released, but today's opinion from the 6th Circuit Court throws the case into turmoil.

A new book tells how the blinding of a black Army veteran after World War II by a South Carolina police chief helped lead to the desegregation of the U.S. Army.

Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri returned to his home country late last year, after spending eight years in Canada. The cleric has ignited a disgruntled electorate by taking on Pakistan's government, saying it has failed to curb militancy or fix the economy. His critics call him a demagogue who's more interested in the limelight.

Caitlin Freeman is an artist who uses sweet confections as her primary medium. Her desserts are clever culinary homages to the great works of art that hang at the SFMOMA.

Major tech companies showed their might after the attack on the U.S. Capitol by shutting down President Trump's accounts and trying to do the same with those who incite violence among his supporters.