Pain is rarely worse than when it's needless. That's something young Daniela Chacon and much of Venezuela feels now.

Venezuelan authorities took opposition leaders Leopoldo Lopez and Antonio Ledezma from their homes early Tuesday.

Venezuela has been riven by violent protests in recent weeks as opposition leaders face off with President Nicolas Maduro and his supporters.

On a February night in 2008, Luis Alberto Rojas Marin says, his life changed forever.

The White House is gearing up to fight a federal judge's nationwide halt of President Donald Trump's immigration order.

As Brazil's beleaguered prisons continue to face problems involving drugs, corruption, escapes and riots, the pressure is on the government to fix what some analysts say are systemic and structural failures of the prison system.

Nothing prepares you for the feeling of walking into a store and finding something that fits, off the rack, after years and years of having to order from specialty stores. No one can prepare you for the feeling of being able to sit down in an airplane seat, cross your legs and not need an extender for the seat belt. And absolutely nothing in life prepares you for the feeling of sleeping without snoring, walking up a flight of stairs without getting winded and exercising without feeling like you're dying.