Some of the new adaptions of one of Charles Dicken’s most beloved novels, Great Expectations, have been controversial, leading to a debate about how far new adaptations should stray from the original.

Ecuador’s president has dissolved congress and is now ruling the country by decree. The risky political move happened within days of his probable impeachment.

Leaders are running out of time to raise the debt ceiling before a June 1 deadline when the government is set to run out of money.

Legal wrangling over abortion and mifepristone — most recently in a federal appeals court — places the U.S. on a different trajectory from the rest of the world.