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“I think when people close their eyes and think of who a scientist is, they don't see a woman,†says Rachel Ignotofsky. Her new book aims to change that.
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| Updated | 2024-11-25 11:45 |
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Scientists from Iran loom large in the history of American innovation, but some Iranian Americans are considering moving elsewhere.
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Leo Goldberger was smuggled out of Denmark to Sweden during the Nazi-occupation. He's upset by President Donald Trump's executive order banning travel to the US by citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries.
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Sarmad Assali, an Orthodox Christian in Allentown, Pennsylvania, supported Donald Trump for president. She was stunned this weekend when his refugee and immigration restrictions meant her relatives were deported back to Damascus.
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At a time when they’re feeling under threat, Texas Muslims flocked to the city of Austin this week to take part in the annual Texas Muslim Capitol Day. Huge numbers of supporters turned out too. But some of the conversations between Muslim voters and state lawmakers are difficult ones.
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The sculpture that later became the Statue of Liberty was meant to represent a woman in Arab dress, standing at the entrance to the Suez Canal.
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Trump's talk of massive tariffs has economists alarmed.
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A 19-year-old Iraqi Kurd and his family were prevented from coming to the US by President Donald Trump's immigration order. Now they are cleared for entry, and as the family regroups, friends and strangers in America are rallying to their support.
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Kinan Azmeh, an award-winning composer and a performer in Yo-Yo Ma’s ensemble, lives in New York. He also happens to be a green card holder born in Syria.
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Trump reminds these Iranians of their former leader, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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The Trump administration has responded angrily to the leak of a dissent memo from foreign service officers criticizing the president's executive order on immigration. Here's how those diplomats are making their feelings known: It's called the "dissent channel."
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The Canadian city isn't used to the kind of violence it experienced over the weekend, when a gunman killed six worshippers praying at a mosque and wounded five others.
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Ghaith Abdul-Ahad was born in Baghdad but used to visit Mosul with his family frequently. Today, Mosul is nothing like what Abdul-Ahad remembers.
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Many Sudanese Americans are political refugees with deep roots in the US and strong ties back home. Now, some face hard choices.
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On a rainy night, people filed past several police officers and packed into City Hall. They were there to debate whether Newton should position itself as a sanctuary city for undocumented immigrants.
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"We should remind our American friends of their own motto: United we stand, divided we fall."
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Mark Krikorian says Trump's executive order is not a ban on Muslims, but just a temporary measure while the US secures its borders.
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This author wanted to tell @realdonaldtrump how his travel ban executive order could backfire, by discouraging Iraqi interpreters and allies from helping the US in the fight against ISIS.
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Over the weekend, hundreds of people arriving at US airports were detained, handcuffed and interrogated about their visas or green cards. Thousands of volunteer attorneys have stepped up to help them.
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On Friday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that sparked chaos and confusion throughout the US, and parts of the world. It limits who can enter the US from seven Muslim-majority countries — in the name of "extreme vetting." Thousands of people were caught up in the aftermath.
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Denise Ajiri has legal permanent residence in the US. She cannot go back to Iran because she is a journalist who has worked for US-government backed media.
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Juliette Kayyem was an official in the Department of Homeland Security under Barack Obama and is now an analyst for various media. She says the ban on Muslims from seven nations entering the US will be a big problem for her former colleagues.
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In an executive memorandum signed on Saturday, Trump elevated Steve Bannon, the former head of Breitbart News, while downgrading the status of the Director of National Intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the security council's principals committee.
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Without a nation of their own, the Kurds have been fighting oppression for centuries, all the way to the present day. In fact, Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers are key forces right now in the battle against ISIS. But Kurdish history — a story of persecution, war and resilience — is largely untold. A new museum would help change that.
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The Psyche mission will explore a huge metal asteroid, and Lucy will explore Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids
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As it turns out, picky adolescent behavior is natural — and can actually be an asset to the maturing brain.
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It's the ideological forefather of many radical Islamist groups. But past US administrations have refrained from putting the Muslim Brotherhood on its list of foreign terrorist organizations. Now, the Trump White House is considering doing just that.
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But in reality, researchers say automation could come much sooner — or later. One of the report’s authors dives in to the factors in play.
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President Donald Trump has promised to bring back coal miners’ jobs and reopen the mines, attracting broad support in Pennsylvania’s coal country.
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Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. It marks the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. But the day isn't just about World War II. It also recognizes Rwanda, Cambodia and Darfur — other genocides. PRI's The World's Marco Werman remembers the day.
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Ali Soufan is among the few people who have interrogated suspected al-Qaeda terrorists. He didn't use force to get them to talk. He used tea.
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Some from Latin America say Washington has historically imposed "a sort of imperialism" in its funding for global groups that offer family planning advice, including access to abortion.
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Each week on The World, we feature a unique selection of music, and every week we put together the highlights for you here.
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Back in the 1960s, there were fewer than 10 lion dancer troupes participating in the Lunar New Year parade in New York's China. Today it’s more like 40 or 50.
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Older Russian Americans in Boston are applauding the Putin-Trump thing. Millennials just say 'nyet.'
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Boston's Allston neighborhood is a hub for the local Russian community. US-Russia relations have been a source of political intrigue this election season. So with the election of Donald Trump, many in Allston are keeping close tabs on the relationship between the US President and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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America's global leadership over the past century hasn't always been perfect, but it's usually been respected. That may be changing under President Trump. But the new US president's words and actions are also mobilizing those who have a different idea of what makes America great, and who don't want to see it disappear.
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After some awkward preparations — the White House misspelled Theresa May’s name a few times — the two leaders survived their first big diplomatic moment together.
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Philosopher Aaron James deconstructs why a brash style is embraced amidst chaotic politics.
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President Donald Trump isn't the only world leader touting "alternative facts."
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Fearful of President Donald Trump wiping public scientific data from federal agency websites, US scientists and researchers are saving data to private servers. And the international community is helping.
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Anxiety is running high for Syrians in the US after President Trump's proposed refugee ban might prevent family reunifications.
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Ekegusii is spoken by about two million Kenyans but has been losing ground to Swahili and English. Now it is taught in some schools, thanks to local language activists assisted by American linguists.
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Khatoon Khider used to sing folk songs about the suffering of her people, the Yazidi religious minority. After ISIS overran her hometown in northern Iraq, she put down her tambur instrument and picked up a gun, forming the first all-female Yazidi peshmerga battalion to fight the militant group.
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Thae Yong-ho, who fled his post as North Korea's deputy ambassador to Britain in August, says the elite are "turning their backs" on leader Kim Jong-un.
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US President Donald Trump and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto will not be meeting this week after another flare up over the proposed wall.
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President Donald Trump has signed executive orders to restrict refugees from entering the US and to build a bigger wall along the US-Mexican border. Mexicans broadly condemn the plan and say they'll refuse to pay for it.
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The stated goal of this gargantuan project is to keep out undocumented migrants, drugs and criminals.
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Jennifer Ditchburn, editor-in-chief of Policy Options, reflects on what it was like for the press in Canada under former Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Six years, one prime minister and a president later, it seems American journalists will be asked to put up with a lot of things, she says.
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For two years, Ismail al-Kanon and his mother, Jandar Nasi, were captives of ISIS. More than most living under the terror group’s rule, they had reason to expect that they would never escape — because they were Iraqi Christians. Here is the story of how they kept their faith, survived and escaped.
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Trump gave a conditional go-ahead to the Keystone XL pipeline and an equally controversial pipeline crossing in North Dakota — both of which had been put on hold by Obama.
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