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Before Donald Trump was president-elect, Daily Show host Trevor Noah compared him to various African dictators. But the comparison doesn't hold up all that well — well, until you get to the nepotism part.
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Social media is chipping away at democracy, and everyone saw it coming
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He's a stateless migrant who is now the proud owner of the first ID card he's ever been issued. But it doesn't guarantee him anything more than the chance to have his asylum case heard.
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An effort to amend Kyrgyzstan's constitution uncovered something shocking: No one knew where the constitution was located.
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"We are getting blessings from places we didn’t even anticipate,†says one imam in Los Angeles.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday she would seek a fourth term in elections next year to defend democratic principles in the face of looming threats at home and abroad.
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Recently, trials of a hormonal contraceptive for men were halted, despite high efficacy rates. Other options are on the way.
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Tesla and Toyota are among the major manufacturers making the leap into car-sharing.
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In recent weeks, we’ve gotten fresh perspective on electron microscope images, and Pluto
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While the world waits to see what a President Donald Trump will actually do on climate and environmental issues, negotiators are making quiet progress in some important areas.
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No, it won't help this election.
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Pop-up books aren’t just fun to read — they’re feats of engineering and ingenuity. Here, video producer Luke Groskin goes inside the studio of pop-up book artist Matthew Reinhart.
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Americans discard about 100 billion plastic bags each year. Some states and municipalities have passed measures banning or limiting their use. In Western Massachusetts, a more individualized approach has emerged. It's called The BagShare Project.
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Elon Musk wants Tesla to be your one-stop-shop for all things solar — and he's making good progress.
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One of them is Thilmeeza Hussain. She's from the tiny, low-lying island nation of the Maldives, which is slowly being inundated by the rising waters of the Indian Ocean.
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That is how Turkish President Recep Erdogan has described a radical policy to fire or arrest anyone suspected of supporting an attempted coup against his government this summer.
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A pooch from Belfast, Northern Ireland, has only one skill. But he's a genius at it.
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Leading climate scientist and educator Katharine Hayhoe talks to PRI's The World about the prospects for changing President-elect Trump's mind on climate change, and the prospects for progress even without Trump.
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New York Times reporter Eric Lipton says: “I don’t think there’s ever been a president who has anywhere close to the number of potential conflicts that Trump has.â€
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Mike Pompeo, a Tea Party hawk chosen by President-elect Donald Trump to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, also opposes the Iran deal and efforts to close Guantanamo.
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Hurricane Matthew devastated cacao trees at the heart of Haiti's burgeoning cocoa export business.
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Standing Rock is more than a movement for clean water rights. It's also where the Lakota language is re-inventing itself.
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One of the taller tasks facing President-elect Donald Trump is to find ways to restore faith in an office, and in a government, that he helped degrade. But he didn't do it alone. American trust in government and other institutions has been sliding for years. Weighing in on why, and how to move forward, is Garry Wills, professor emeritus at Northwestern University, and author of many books and essays on faith, trust and politics.
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Seun Kuti blames the rich and powerful for the social and economic inequality in the world today. And he's not surprised that a populist movement has voted someone like Donald Trump into office.
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The Oakland Raiders will battle the Houston Texans in Mexico City's famed Azteca Stadium. Players are warned about not going out alone. But if they do, they'll probably run into people crazy about the game.
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Have you been mansplained? Wanna vent about it? If you're in Sweden, you can. Gender specialist operators are standing by.
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Angel Gallegos voted for Donald Trump in a heavily Latino and Democratic part of South Texas. For him, immigration wasn't a top priority, rather the economy.
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Over the next five years, the CDC is investing more than $2 billion to prepare itself, developing countries and state and local health departments to be able to respond to health emergencies.
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Guess where most of it is headed?
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Hundreds of Yazidi women are believed to be held captive by ISIS in Mosul. But when ISIS leaves Iraq's second largest city, will the women still be there?
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Her adoptive parents never filed the paperwork to make her a US citizen. So Kim Craig fell through the cracks. And now she finds herself stuck in Korea after a visit, unable to get back to the US.
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It turns out that a lot of the false news stories shared on social media before the election were generated by teenagers in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. And according to BuzzFeed News, they made a good amount of money doing it.
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President-elect Donald Trump wants Mexico to pay for his border wall. One way he might do this, he says, is to stop people here from sending money back home to their families in Mexico. But that could actually backfire on him.
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Many are concerned about how President-elect Donald Trump's campaign statements will translate into concrete policies, especially as it pertains to minorities.
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The young Muslims behind the website “Kosovo if Trump Wins†hope a President Trump won’t weaken ties with their staunchly pro-American country, even if his campaign rhetoric suggests otherwise.
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The United States, which gave refuge to my Kosovar wife, is no place for our future children.
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The South African comedian talks to The World about race, family, and his new memoir, "Born a Crime."
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The Southern Poverty Law Center has recorded hundreds of incidents of harassment and hate since the election against Hispanics, Muslims, African Americans, women, gays, lesbians and others. Will it last?
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President-elect Donald Trump has said he wants to cut off federal funding for "sanctuary cities," but a number of mayors are openly condemning that plan.
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America's 1.4 million service members are about to get a new boss. And like the rest of America, they're divided over the coming presidency of Donald Trump. And a little anxious.
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The ceremonies were peaceful and quiet. A pianist played; lanterns floated on a canal.
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A church in Washington DC, where members have been troubled by the US election results, says it will offer "sanctuary" to those who feel threatened under Donald Trump's administration.
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An update from the UN climate conference in Marrakech.
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President-elect Donald Trump says he will support a strong Israel. But the cabinet appointment of Stephen Bannon, a man who panders to white nationalists, has many Jews in the US at odds with the holy country.
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President-elect Donald Trump has clarified his threat to deport undocumented immigrants. Early in the campaign he threatened to remove all of an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants. Now he says only those with criminal records will be removed, which he places at two to three million people.
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“I mean Finland is the first country even to suggest emojis that have some sort of a cultural connection,†says Petra Theman who's trying to get her country's emojis onto smartphones everywhere.
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Young Emiratis find it easier to communicate in English than Arabic, which is their mother language. How did that happen?
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It’s very unlikely that you will be killed by a far-off terrorist group. So why do we worry about it so much? National security expert Juliette Kayyem explains what we should — and shouldn’t — be afraid of.
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The rift was poised to turn the upper Midwest into oceanfront real estate — until it stalled.
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On Oct. 21, our connected devices were conscripted into a "botnet"/"zombie army" using widely available malware.
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