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"Jenny? Hello? Hello?" — a grandmother speaks to her family on the US mainland after weeks of being unable to contact them after Hurricane Maria.
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| Updated | 2025-07-02 13:46 |
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The North Vietnamese surprise attack on dozens of military sites in South Vietnam, including the US embassy in Saigon, had a seismic impact on the US public. While a military failure for the North, it was a huge propaganda success. Attitudes in the US towards the war and toward President Lyndon Johnson were never the same.
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When you move your family abroad, you bring your culture with you. Your language, your religion and maybe, most importantly for some, your food. That's been true for years for the more than 300,000 Korean immigrants living in Southern California. Now there is a growing number of them that are moving back to Seoul, and they are returning with a food culture that is simmered in the melting pot that is Los Angeles.
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Dubbed TV and movies suck, right? Those odd-sounding voices and that lamely-synchronized dialogue? In Germany, it's not like that. Dubbing is a highly evolved craft, with actors who specialize in voiceover and writers who improve the dialogue.
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Voters went to the polls in Liberia Tuesday to replace Africa's first female head of state. And gender politics are playing a big role.
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After Hurricane Maria, one family in Boston has been unable to speak to relatives in Puerto Rico. So, they asked us to bring a letter with us and deliver it.
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​Deadly wildfires are ripping across Northern California, scorching more than 115,000 acres across eight counties. At least 13 people have been confirmed dead.
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Political activism is nothing new for the congregation at Bethel AME in Boston. But the congregation has decided to take on a new mission, by becoming a sanctuary church for a father facing deportation.
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During the day, she works at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
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Anchorage is home to America's most diverse neighborhood. It's indicative of a demographic change that's sweeping across the US.
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"Dawnland," an upcoming documentary film, follows the stories of several key individuals involved in the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
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Facebook, Twitter and Google have been invited to testify at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Nov. 1.
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The situation in Spain puts the EU in a tricky situation — it might be troubled by the violence, but it doesn’t want to encourage separatist forces that threaten many of the nations within it.
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Puerto Rico is not the only US territory recovering from Hurricanes Irma and Maria. The US Virgin Islands were also devastated. On St Croix, one month on, the recovery continues.
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President Donald Trump took to Twitter recently to call San Juan Mayor Carmen YulÃn Cruz, “nasty.†Her response? “I don’t give a sh-t.â€
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This breach is one of the most significant in recent years and could potentially allow Russia to evade NSA surveillance and more easily infiltrate US networks.
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South Korea is transfixed by new television programs that put young and manicured North Koreans in the spotlight.
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Even as President Donald Trump backs away from US climate leadership, his top military commanders are planning for climate-related threats and manning the front lines when they do happen.
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Hurricane Irma may have altered the ecosystem of the Everglades in Florida, restoring some of the dynamics that disappeared during decades of development.
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Many new initiatives were unveiled at Climate Week NYC this year, including pledges from businesses and countries to speed up the transition to electric cars and renewable energy. But, in the face of multiple disastrous global weather events and the unwillingness of the Trump administration to even admit climate problems exist, the sense of urgency is rising.
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Caribbean islands have been battered by the record-breaking hurricanes Irma and Maria. They now face the monumental task of rebuilding thousands of homes and much of their infrastructure.
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Over the course of her career, she’s rescued 12 people after earthquakes and other disasters in Mexico, Haiti and Ecuador.
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The federal relief effort for hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico has been criticized as slow and insufficient. But the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other federal personnel are on the ground, trying to help.
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Rainbow flags at a Mashrou' Leila concert in Cairo sparked Egypt's widest anti-gay crackdown.
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Failure to certify the deal does not mean that the US is withdrawing.
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Ari Beser's grandfather helped bomb Hiroshima. Now he's part of the movement to abolish nuclear weapons.
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Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and President Lyndon Johnson worked together to achieve major civil rights victories in 1964 and 1965. But then the Vietnam War got in the way. King's public denunciation of the war was widely condemned, even by many in his own movement, and ruined his relationship with Johnson.
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Leilah Day and Hana Baba are journalists at KALW based in San Francisco. They say they wanted to "start conversations and provide sound-rich stories about what it means to be black, and how we talk about blackness" — and so, The Stoop was born.
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Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb or a related extremist group is thought to have targeted the US troops, in an attack that highlights an incoherent US policy in West Africa.
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Some of the fish you buy from your local grocery store may have come from factories in China where North Koreans are working. An investigative team from The Associated Press tracked the products from China to US freezer cases.
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A campaign that Western military are linking to Russian hackers has targeted the contingent of 4,000 NATO troops deployed to Poland and the Baltic states this year, to protect the alliance’s European border with Russia.
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Writer Bruce Handy reminds us why we still love the books we read as kids.
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How and why Danny Strong made a movie about how and why J.D. Salinger made “The Catcher in the Rye.â€
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The life and death of Vincent van Gogh, as told through his paintings.
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The Pulitzer Prize winning author remembers a formative experience with a punk band that didn’t look — or sound — very punk-y.
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About 154,000 people are eligible to renew. As of Thursday morning, many still had not applied — cost, the difficulty in getting legal help and fear of how the government will treat them are likely reasons.
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Amir Darabi was a child prodigy. He started playing the piano when he was 3 years old. Later, he felt there wasn't enough competition in Iran. But for an Iranian, getting to the US is a Herculean task.
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Teaching health clinics work in underserved communities across the US, but funding is set to run out
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A federally funded medical training program offers new doctors perks to practice in poor and rural areas. But Congress may pull the plug on the funding.
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Two women accused of poisoning the half-brother of North Korea's leader plead not guilty as their trial began this week. The women say they thought they were participating in a prank for a TV show.
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After a natural disaster, people scramble to rebuild their houses, get food and water. But for sex traffickers, it can also be a scramble to cash in.
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The French magazine Charlie Hebdo describes itself as a punch in the face. So get ready America, because Charlie Hebdo is coming to town, online and in English.
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Commentary: Author Malka Older lays out her case for allowing for secession.
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It's a question that's puzzled historians and investigators for nearly 75 years and we may have an answer soon.
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Author and activist Masha Gessen follows the experiences of half-dozen Russians whose lives have been changed by Putin's retro-totalitarian state.
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The US says Cuba failed to protect Americans on Cuban soil, while Cuba says Americans are just looking for an excuse to punish the country.
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The Trump administration has cut the US diplomatic presence in Havana in half and warned Americans not to visit Cuba, on the suspicion that a secret sonic weapon is making people sick. But scientists say that’s not possible.
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Alaska is warming at twice the rate of the rest of the country. And Anchorage is feeling the impacts of climate change.
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There’s no evidence linking the Las Vegas attack to ISIS. So why did the group claim responsibility?
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Experts say if no evidence emerges, ISIS will have “blown a mile-wide hole in their credibility.â€
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The US tops the list of importers and exporters of weapons designed for individual use, according to research by the Small Arms Survey.
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Weiss and colleagues dreamed up the idea behind a massive antenna so sensitive it detects faint, invisible ripples in space from 1.3 billion years ago - offering evidence of Einstein's theory of general relativity.
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