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There's a lot of discontent with America's political system, including with primary elections. Many experts say party-based primaries shut out independent voters and make political polarization worse. That's why some states are turning to nonpartisan primaries.

For the first time in its history, Pakistan is poised to put a former president and army chief of staff on trial. A special court has been convened to hear allegations against General Pervez Musharraf. He's charged with committing treason after he suspended the nation's constitution in 2007 and declared a state of emergency.

A roundup of top tips from Life Kit's July episodes. They include advice on how to deal with a cheating partner, how much sunscreen to wear on your face, and how to split the tab when everyone's ordered a cocktail — except you.

Ukraine's advance into western Russia has slowed in recent days as Russian reinforcements begin to reach the region. The two sides appear headed for a showdown in the coming days.

The House voted 216-207 Wednesday to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt.

President Trump's rival advisors Peter Navarro and Elon Musk are in a war of words over whether Tesla relies on imported parts. Musk has the facts on his side.

James prosecuted the president and his companies, winning millions of dollars in fines linked to fraud allegations. Her attorney called the probe "an attack on the rule of law."

We look at how President Biden's message to MAGA Republicans was received, as well as what the latest details on the documents seized from Mar-a-Lago tell us about the why the FBI was worried.

The University of Connecticut's women's basketball team is back in the Final Four thanks in part to Paige Bueckers. Bueckers has done a lot in her amazing career except win the NCAA title. She's ready.

There were no requests for bids. Other than the giant for-profit Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), the board of Mission Health held substantive discussions with only two other potential partners: Novant and Atrium. Only Novant was invited to make a formal offer to counter the one Mission executives had solicited from HCA six months earlier.“In the end," a North Carolina Department of Justice investigator wrote, "an outside observer could conclude that HCA rose to the top among a limited number of bidders because the deck had been stacked in its favor from the beginning" by Dr. Ronald A. Paulus, then Mission Health's president and CEO, and Philip D. Green, Paulus's long-time friend and strategic advisor.Watchdog managing editor Peter H. Lewis and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Sally Kestin found those revelations — and many, many more — among more than 6,000 records released by the office of Attorney General Josh Stein in partial response to public records requests filed by Asheville Watchdog over the past two years.