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Angela Merkel won, but a far-right party will be at the forefront of German politics for the first time since WWII.

A German far-right party won parliamentary seats after campaigning against policies that welcomed refugees. One of those refugees, Ahmad Wali Temory, hopes to preserve the policies that brought Afghans like him to the country.

People are running out of supplies, and it's unclear whether help is on the way.

Ricardo Rosselló, Puerto Rico's governor, called for more aid from the Trump administration on Sunday night and compared the crisis to the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Sandy.

“It’s crazy that those four words were so impactful,” says Lesego Legobane. “I didn’t even dream of getting 10 retweets.”

Everyone gets chicken, and the chicken get antibiotics.

Researchers examining soil cores from an early Roman harbor found correlations between layers of lead and the city’s economic growth.

With its silky fur and bandit-masked face, the black-footed ferret cuts a cute, if lethal figure on the American plains. It’s also the star of a great comeback story.

Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have focused attention on the problems with US flood disaster programs.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday announced a plan aimed at "protecting election integrity." The announcement comes just two weeks after the company revealed that a Russian company purchased roughly $100,000 in political advertisements during the 2016 US presidential campaign.

Alfredo Richner and his family were in Puerto Rico when Hurricane Maria came barreling through.

With so much destruction from this season's hurricanes in the Caribbean, there are going to be a lot of people on the move, looking to start their lives in new places. Casually, we often call these people "climate refugees." But the term is problematic.

Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un have engaged in the sort of rhetorical rumble that wouldn't sound out of place in the world of professional wrestling. But these two nuclear-armed national leaders might be more similar than most people realize.

This is the untold story of Los Angeles’ Filipino Tiki bartenders.

In an April 1965 address to the nation, President Lyndon Johnson laid out his argument for expanding US involvement in Vietnam. From archival audio, we now know that Johnson had believed for at least a year that the conflict was a disaster in the making. Why did he continue to push for escalation in a war he didn't think was worth fighting?

The director of a new Baltimore production of "M. Butterfly" got to meet the real French embassy worker at the heart of the story. And he came away with even more questions.

Journalist Jamal Khashoggi lives in Washington, DC, but his home is in Saudi Arabia. He wrote an opinion piece in The Washington Post that may make going home difficult — and dangerous.

How “American Masters” creator Susan Lacy created the definitive portrait of Steven Spielberg.

Music performed by symphony orchestras sounds sublime from the 17th row, but on stage? Not so much.

“BoJack Horseman” creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg talks about making fun of Hollywood clichés — and trying not to become one.

The traditionally male-dominated field of shark research is changing thanks to scientists like Alison Kock and Cynthia Wigren.

Songs of resistance are at the core of Songhoy Blues' latest album. In fact, they titled their album "Résistance." The band hails from Mali and tackles issues like racism and voter apathy.

Soviet officer Stanislav Petrov committed an act of bravery in 1983 that probably prevented a nuclear conflict. Yet he was largely unheralded in Russia.

Russia is celebrating the Kalashnikov rifle as "a cultural brand." It has literally put the weapon's inventor, Mikhail Kalashnikov, on a pedestal. A statue was unveiled in Moscow on Tuesday, amid much pomp and ceremony.

More than 200 people are dead as buildings collapse in dense sections of Mexico City.

Some neighborhoods in Miami only got power on Tuesday, 10 days after the Irma hit.

For some women from conservative Muslim families, US health care practices can clash with what they are used to.

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi also uses Twitter to communicate with the people, often generating the same sorts of controversies as President Donald Trump in the US.

President Donald Trump has again mentioned the idea of having a massive military parade in Washington for the Fourth of July. Historically, the US has never put the military on such a pedestal. The Founding Fathers, in fact, despised the idea of a standing army of any sort.

Alaska’s salmon fishermen were nearly destroyed by a worldwide glut in farmed salmon. But they went from fighting global competition to embracing it.

“She is not acting like a beacon of hope for democracy, in my book. Nor is she protecting the human rights of all of the people of Myanmar."

Just days before the German general election, a new report by the Oxford Internet Institute finds that the types of bots and fake accounts that played a big role in the US election are largely absent from the online political conversation in Germany.

Robert Mueller may think Paul Manafort holds the key to many unanswered questions.

A large luxury cruise ship doubled the population of a small Inuit town for a day this summer as it sailed through the once ice-choked Northwest Passage.

President Donald Trump had tough words for North Korea, Iran and Venezuela in his first address to the UN General Assembly.

The founding father of modern Vietnam is Ho Chi Minh. He led Vietnam's communist revolution against French colonial rule and then took on the United States. But it seems he long had an admiration for the US and repeatedly sought the country's help in the decades before the Vietnam War.

President Donald Trump makes his debut at the United Nations General Assembly this week. Thousands of world leaders, diplomats and advocates will debate issues ranging from North Korea's nuclear threat to the Paris climate accord.

Women in Germany are paid 21 percent less than men — a higher pay gap than the European average of 16 percent.

How 'Mayim, Mayim,' an Old World Jewish song, made its way into Japan is a mystery, but how it stayed is a geopolitical mess from the 20th century.

Ask Germans to define the word "Volk" and you may get a bunch of different answers, each suggesting different attitudes to German identity and immigration.

Several weeks ago, about 160,000 Atlantic salmon escaped into Puget Sound from a broken net pen, raising concerns about damage to wildlife and the environment.

University of Chicago scientists discovered that if you record iceberg vibrations and speed them up, humans can hear them.

Residents, environmentalists, engineers and government agencies agree that they need a coordinated strategy to manage flooding.

Three psychologists debunk a persistent myth about how we learn.

All it takes is a little news and some top-notch teachers.

Opponents of the law say it could be used to target science in the classroom.

David Harrington of Kronos Quartet shares his thoughts about the term "world music." The term was coined 30 years ago this year.

After more than 20 years, NASA today said goodbye to the Cassini space probe and sent it plunging into Saturn's atmosphere to burn up. It was the end of a remarkable mission that revealed deep secrets of the ringed planet and its many moons.

Whistleblower Chelsea Manning is at the center of a dispute after Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government invited, then disinvited her to become a visiting fellow.

North Korea is making a play on bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.