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West Virginia's economy has long been reliant on coal. But as coal jobs dry up, many are looking for jobs beyond coal.

She was born in New York, grew up in India and moved to Kabul in 1962, as a diplomat’s wife. She didn’t stay married, but she fell in love with the country.

When ISIS invaded northern Iraq, they captured many Yazidi women, forced them to convert to Islam and traded them as sex slaves. The Yazidi community granted photographer Marcio Pimenta rare access to capture moving images of the reintegration process for freed women rejoining the group.

A high school sophomore talks about what it's like learning about Sept. 11 exclusively from a history book.

Despite 16 years of effort, al-Qaeda has not gone away. In fact, they might be poised to make a dramatic return. Ali Soufan, a counter-terrorism expert and former FBI agent, looks at the organization's strengths and weaknesses.

A Guatemalan family struggles with the aftermath of their son's death in the US.

Donald Trump watched from his office in Manhattan as the attack at the World Trade Center took place in 2001. Now, 16 years later, President Trump's emerging foreign policy is still shaped by the terrorist attacks of that day.

Hackers have gained unprecedented access to power grid controls in the US and abroad, according to a new report by the cybersecurity firm Symantec.

Not long ago, the most popular explanation for any dangerous teenage behavior was raging hormones. Fast-forward a few years and the explanation changed: The teenage brain is actually biologically different. A teen’s prefrontal cortex is less developed than in adults. Now, a new study from the University of Pennsylvania suggests your teen’s bad decisions are driven by something else entirely.

The iconic confrontation between HAL and Dave from the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey," crystallized on the big screen our fear of intelligent robots threatening humans. Now, with self-driving cars on the horizon and AI finding its way into our phones, our financial systems and just about all aspects of life, that scenario is becoming increasingly complicated.

The Voyager probes have sent messages about our solar system back to Earth for 40 years. They also double as messengers: Each carries a copy of the iconic Golden Record, a phonograph packed with data and messages about human beings. As their power runs down and they eventually cease returning data to Earth, their only functional purpose will be to send that Golden Record out into space.

We all live in a highly complex ecosystem of microbes, some of which we unwittingly create and nourish, others of which are just happy to use our surroundings to make their homes — and scientists know surprisingly little about how this microbial soup affects us.

Every week we hear about more solar or wind resources coming online. New research suggests that humanity could accelerate this process and be running the world entirely on renewable energy by the year 2050.

Many who remain in Miami are not staying there by choice.

Just as megastorms were charging across the Caribbean, Mexico was struck by one of its most powerful earthquakes on record.

Clave is the foundation of salsa, boogaloo, mambo and so much more.

At a protest in Jackson Heights, New York, one mother says she sometimes wonders if she made the right choice to leave Mexico.

The Vietnam War was a searing event in the history of the US. According to rarely heard audio recordings, President Lyndon Johnson expressed great misgivings about getting deeply involved in the conflict, but at every crucial juncture made the decision to do so. This series examines how and why that happened.

Elza Kan could be one of my Korean aunts, except she speaks Russian. Her restaurant in Brooklyn's Brighton Beach neighborhood serves traditional Korean food with an Uzbek twist.

The US agreed to resettle refugees stuck in an Australian-run offshore detention facility. But with the camp slated to be shut down in late October, not a single refugee has been approved.

Most of the ads run by the accounts didn't directly reference the US presidential election, voting or particular candidates but instead appeared focused on "amplifying divisive social and political messages across the ideological spectrum," according to Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos.

Donald Trump Jr. was on Capitol Hill Thursday for a closed-door meeting with Senate investigators.

The Daily Beast is reporting that rich Russians are coming to the United States to give birth to get US citizenship for their babies. Many are being steered to Donald Trump-brand properties.

With Florida still preparing for landfall, US citizens are already reeling from the punch of Hurricane Irma.

Aparna Nancherla shares a high school secret she’s kept — until now.

Kurt Andersen always remembered being inspired by his 11th grade English teacher, Gary Sedlacek. So he decided to give him a call.

Novelist Nicholson Baker braves being a substitute teacher.

The annual Dance Your PhD contest challenges doctoral candidates to take their research from the lab bench to the barre.

A photo of the crime scene shows a bloodstained Aristotle Garcia lying in the street. He has a .38 caliber pistol in his right hand, a wad of cash in the other. Her brother wasn't right-handed, though, which means the gun is in the wrong hand.

Myanmar’s army looks determined to rid the nation of the Rohingya ethnic minority. More than 100,000 Rohingya people have fled in the last two weeks alone.

Back-to-back mega-storms pounding the US and Caribbean countries have left a lot of people wondering if this is climate change at work. The answer is yes, and no. But it's the wrong question.

Perhaps nowhere would the effects of rescinding DACA be felt more than in the state of California, where more than one out of four people are DACA recipients.

For more than 40 years, North Koreans have seen the same face delivering the biggest news on TV. The anchor, Ri Chun Hee, is known for her melodramatic air, and her bright traditional dress. That's earned her the nickname, "The Pink Lady." But who is she?

She was particularly opposed to the right-wing Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Haitians and Cubans are preparing for the storms in starkly different ways.

In a rare interview, a defector of an all-female division of the North Korean army describes life then and now.

Salman Rushdie stretched the bounds of realism and fantasy in “The Satanic Verses,” but in his latest novel, he’s doing the opposite.

“I think the Duterte government was so focused on the war on drugs it erratically forgot an equally critical issue, like the looming radicalism that had been felt this past several months," said Julkipli Wadi, lecturer at the University of Philippines Institute of Islamic Studies.

Under what circumstances can the media responsibly portray teen suicide?

If synthetic fibers are in tap water, they’re also likely in foods prepared with water, such as bread, pasta, soup and baby formula, researchers say.

In many parts of rural India a strong taboo exists against women saying the names of their husbands. A feminist group is seeking to change that.

Tech industry leaders, from Apple to Facebook to Google, are calling on Congress to restore the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

To get through a hard day's labor, refugee children sing work songs, they told The World’s Richard Hall.

Julio Ramos just started medical school, but unless Congress passes laws to protect undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children, it’s unclear if he can finish his training. Or pay back the student loans he’s already taken out.

Dr. J. Marion Sims is often hailed as the father of modern gynecology. But he also has a troubled history of experimenting on slaves and activists are calling for a statue of him in New York City to be removed.

President Donald Trump has been able to count on the support of many evangelical Christians. But many evangelical leaders are speaking out in favor of the DACA program that Trump has decided to cancel.

Both the US and China sent aid to the Philippines to quell its Islamist insurgency. Both countries want to gain influence over the Philippine military. If China succeeds, it will hinder the US’ ability to project power in the Asia Pacific.

“The goal is to try to get these drugs, if they show promise, to patients as quickly as possible, but then also make sure that they're followed up with confirmatory studies done in a timely fashion.”

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