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The leftist leader offered few specifics about the currency launch or how the struggling OPEC member would pull off such a feat, but he declared to cheers that "the 21st century has arrived!"

The assassination of Yemen's former president was unexpected. An investigator who studied — and met — Ali Abdullah Saleh fills in some of the history of Yemen's most powerful man.

Trump shrunk the size of Bears Ears National Monument by more than 80 percent and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument by roughly 45 percent by signing two presidential proclamations.

Acree Bell Lassiter was just 17 when she started working in a textile mill in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. Now that mill, like all the mills in her town, is gone.

We take a deeper look into the allegations facing former Takeaway host John Hockenberry.

After World War II, many American GIs wanted to settle down and start families. Businessman Bill Levitt saw a huge business opportunity and helped create a new vision of suburbia.

They "found that women tended to have damage to a greater part of their brain and to more discrete areas of the brain than the men who headed the ball the same amount."

New research into pigeon genetics may provide some clues.

“It's literally like going on a discovery mission every day,” M. Scott Echols says.

Instead of treating nature as property under the law, the rights-of-nature movement seeks legal recognition that "nature in all its life forms has the right to exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles."

Josephine Baker was a superstar on the French stage. But she was also a member of the French resistance in World War II and an American civil rights activist. A new graphic biography chronicles her many identities.

We feature a unique selection of music on The World. And we put together the highlights for you here.

In a state facing facing big challenges from climate change, but where few are facing up to the problem, the small city of Satellite Beach stands out for its aggressive moves to stay ahead of rising seas. But the efforts highlight the limits of what one town can do.

Election officials are expected to announce the presidential election winner on Friday night, six days after the election.

Some of Saudi Arabia's wealthiest and most prominent figures are being held inside the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh, as part of what's being dubbed an anti-corruption crackdown by Saudi's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The BBC's Lyse Doucet is the first journalist allowed inside the hotel.

On Tuesday, ICE agents apprehended 30-year-old Genaro Rojas-Hernandez from inside a courthouse. There have been 40 courthouse arrests across New York City so far this year.

Magali Torres, who lives in Florida and is originally from Mexico, is closely watching whether Congress and the White House can agree on a path that will allow her to continue to work legally in the US and worry less about deportation.

Bambadjan Bamba worked hard for years to become a star in Hollywood. Now he's putting it all at risk, because he says he can no longer afford to be silent.

The continuing investigation into Russian manipulation of the US election has helped fuel a media spat between the two countries.

President Donald Trump has tweeted controversial, inflammatory and false information for years. Since 2016, someone else has helped him do it.

By singing and writing a song in Choctaw, singer-songwriter Samantha Crain is trying to push the culture past its colonial influence.

In partnership with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Insect Pest Control Lab in Vienna, Austria, WeRobotics is testing out the technology and hopes to put it to use in Zika hotspots in Latin America.

Reem Kassis left her Palestinian family behind in Jerusalem, but she's captured their culture and cuisine in her new cookbook.

US President Donald Trump after he castigated Prime Minister Theresa May for rebuking him over anti-Muslim tweets, even as individual politicians expressed outrage.

Laicie Heeley, host of new PRI podcast Things That Go Boom, answers big questions looming after North Korea successfully launched an ICBM with range to strike the United States.

Access to basic sanitation is something we take for granted here in the United States. We usually have access clean and safe facilities when we need it. But in other parts of the world, access to clean and safe toilets is more difficult. And for some women and girls, not having access to private toilets exposes them to attacks and harassment.

President Nixon's unexpected visit to communist China in 1971 changed its relationship with the US.

Howard Dean believes that the future of the Democratic Party lies in turning out more millennial voters.

Where does Mexican-ness or Haitian-ness end, and American-ness begin?

South Korea’s sweeping anti-graft law is meant to eliminate corruption, but some Koreans say it's cutting into the country's gift-giving tradition.

A Bosnian Croat wartime commander has died after ingesting 'poison' after a verdict was upheld at The Hague.

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said the far-right group,"Britain First is a vile, hate-fueled organization whose views should be condemned."

An Arab Israeli woman with three daughters decided to make sure her next pregnancy would be a boy. So she traveled to the West Bank for a sex selection procedure that is highly regulated in Israel.

There is a reason why Western Europe’s loud acceptance of equality hasn't yet made a significant difference in much of the world: because of the US. Like civil rights and the women’s suffrage movement, it is only when America declares the debate closed that it will finally be closed in much of the world. If not legally, then at least culturally.

Owners of the Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower in Panama City are trying to get rid of the Trump name on their property, according to a report by the Associated Press.

Comedian Hari Kondabolu explains that his new documentary "The Problem with Apu" is not just about a cartoon.

Jamaica legalized medical marijuana and created a new licensing system to allow farmers to legally grow cannabis for medical, scientific or therapeutic purposes. But the fees are expensive and small farmers say they’re being left by the wayside.

Alaska has the largest oil field in North America, with an 800-mile pipeline that moves the oil from the far North Slope to Valdez. A proposed deal with China would build a new pipeline to transport natural gas.

Pope Francis arrived in Yangon, Myanmar on Monday. The UN and the US have accused the country of ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, and the question on many peoples' minds is whether the pope will use the term "Rohingya" to describe the group.

Refugees crammed onto rickety boats for the trip from Libya to Italy are increasingly being intercepted and sent back to Libya.

The target of the massacre in Egypt on Friday was a Sufi mosque. But just what is a Sufi? And why are they being targeted by apparent ISIS sympathizers?

If the US leaves NAFTA, “we might have to go straight to Canada for our supplies,” says a Tijuana brewer.

Remember "Drill, baby, drill"? Well, it's back — and this time it's likely to become a reality.

Bee researcher Shalene Jha dishes on the secret life of bees.