A Republican candidate for county commissioner in North Carolina was forced to abandon his campaign and flee his home with his traumatized family after his property was riddled with bullets in a drive-by shooting that remains unsolved—leaving voters to wonder if political violence now...

After 66 years of defying predictions of its demise, Cuba's communist regime now confronts a crisis unprecedented in scope and severity, with President Miguel Díaz-Canel facing challenges that dwarf even the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.Six Decades of Survival Against...