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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.

Seoul calls them “defectors,” but North Korea accuses the South of kidnapping a dozen waitresses and insists on their return.

The nuclear standoff with North Korea goes back decades. But it might be time for Washington to make some tough decisions.

London officials are investigating an explosion at an Underground station, Parsons Green, that US President Donald Trump was quick to call a terrorist attack.

Author Suzy Hansen didn't think she was naive about America. Then she moved to Turkey and realized what she'd missed.

Jagmeet Singh is being widely praised for his level-headed response to an Islamophobic woman shouting in his face. But some are asking, when is it OK to get mad?

Motel 6 has responded to a news report that staff at two of its Phoenix locations have been sharing guest information with ICE, leading to the arrests of at least 20 undocumented immigrants.

In an unusual move, the plan was announced publicly.

Can climate change be blamed for a devastating flood in Peru? The local government says yes and is preparing for future extreme weather.

As Netflix gears up for Season 3 of "Fuller House," "The Office" star BJ Novak defends the much-maligned reboot.

The Grammy-nominated musical duo Amadou & Mariam performs live in Studio 360.

How a painter duped the Swedish government with a lifelike self-portrait.

The long-time New Yorker writer shares his tips for writing creative non-fiction.

Historians still argue about what exactly happened in the Gulf of Tonkin in August of 1964. What’s not in dispute is the aftermath: A resolution from the Senate passed by a vote of 98 to 2 authorizing President Lyndon Johnson to use whatever force he thought he needed against North Vietnam. The resolution was a major escalation of US involvement in Vietnam and helped Johnson win the presidential election. But it was built on a lie.

One of the first public acts of this new US citizen was to get arrested in support of the rights of DACA recipients.

The Mexican government is working to coordinate recovery and relief efforts, but some citizens worry it won’t be enough.

The US Virgin Islands are in the news because of the appalling devastation from Hurricane Irma. But what's the islands' backstory?

Some on the left had hoped the new taoiseach, as a gay man and son of an immigrant, would usher in a progressive agenda for his center-right party, Fine Gael. But Varadkar has held fast to his conservative politics, and that’s proving to be a lesson for the left.

At least 100 Americans have gone — and some continue to go — to Syria to fight against ISIS. Many have joined a Kurdish militia group called the People's Protection Units or the YPG. What these volunteers are doing isn't illegal, but it raises many questions.

The case of a Dutch tourist who was imprisoned in Myanmar for unplugging a loudspeaker has people talking about the ear-splitting level of noise.

“We are a small island community — the gross domestic product of Antigua is $1 billion a year,” he says. “We cannot afford to take on this responsibility by ourselves."

Florida utility representatives say parts of the state will require a "wholesale rebuild of our electrical grid" after Hurricane Irma left millions without power. How can Florida and other states build electrical grids that are resilient to natural and other disasters?

On Sept. 25, Iraqi Kurds will be holding a referendum over whether they establish an independent Kurdish state.

The surrendered firearms have included weapons from the 1800s and World War I and II, part of a three-month amnesty allowing Australians to turn in unregistered guns without penalty.

The Nobel laureate shares power with the military and the ethnic majority in Myanmar doesn't recognize the Rohingya people as having legitimate status.

Janet Napolitano, now presidents of the University of California, explains why she is suing a department she once led.

As Hurricane Irma approached, many Cubans found this forecaster's absence more worrying than the storm. So he came out of retirement.

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.