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David Muto of The New Yorker wrote about the lawyer, William Marutani, a proponent of removing the bans on interracial marriage.

"It's much more likely that the party will be looking for money in order to benefit Northern Ireland."

Hundreds were arrested in Russia on Monday, including many young women who couple their anti-corruption protests with added demands for a halt to violence against women.

Champion surfers Meryem El Gardoum and Fatima Zahra Berrada are the first women to represent Morocco at a surf contest abroad. Despite their success, back home in Morocco, some men aren’t sold on surfing and don’t approve of local women and girls taking part. And there's pushback from local women, too.

In the fifth vote to end the island's status as a US territory, the 23 percent who voted chose statehood overwhelmingly.

Thousands of the items will go on display — some in a museum, others online — on Monday, exactly one year after gunman Omar Mateen opened deadly fire inside the gay nightclub. In addition to those killed, 53 people were wounded in the hail of bullets.

The protests are the second mass action since March 26 called by Alexei Navalny, who has announced his intention to run for president next year and has drawn a new generation to the streets through a relentless online campaign.

While their parents fight deportation, these siblings in San Diego have turned to social media to raise money to help shoulder the costs of running the household.

Their movement has to do with changes in temperature and rainfall.

Belgian researchers using solar-powered nanomaterials have decontaminated small amounts of polluted air with a process that simultaneously generates hydrogen, which can then be used for power.

President Trump wants to hand over air traffic control to a private organization. About 60 other countries currently have similar systems in place.

While Washington and the media are preoccupied with the Comey hearings, what else is going on that we’re not hearing about? Or, ought to be paying closer attention to?

Science journalist David Baron tells the story of the 1878 total eclipse of the sun that drew astronomers, scientists and even a young Thomas Edison to witness the rare event in the skies over Montana.

The British prime minister is forced to seek the support of a regional party in order to continue governing, after the general election she called backfired dramatically.

Both London and Washington are often dominated by men, but while the Brits elected more women on Thursday, in DC we got a look at the man's world it can be.

Washington buzzed with new questions Friday after ousted FBI director James Comey accused President Donald Trump of lies and defamation, in gripping testimony that undermined an already troubled White House.

Nitrogen dioxide is known to harm human health, especially lungs and heart. Now, a new study finds that sharp increases in nitrogen dioxide levels may lower life satisfaction as much as events like the death of a spouse.

The country is in the midst of a severe economic crisis, and political unrest is escalating. Protests led by Venezuelans denouncing President Nicolás Maduro have now entered their third month. But that's not what Buzzfeed News Reporter Karla Zabludovsky set out to cover on a recent reporting trip to Caracas, Venezuela’s capital.

A day after twin terror attacks in Tehran, some Iranians are wondering why there hasn't been the kind of global outpouring of support seen after recent attacks in the UK.

Russians think "this is all nonsense coming out of Washington."

The simple but powerful idea of uniting communities by bringing a taco truck to mosques during Ramadan.

His family zigzagged the globe in pursuit, and defense, of science. Now, he's worried about the future of science in the US.

Juanes has a new album called "Mis Planes Son Amarte" and it's his answer to all the bad news out there

Khuram Butt was born in Pakistan and raised in London. He's one of three people suspected in the most recent terrorist attack.

The poll showed Theresa May's Conservatives on course to fall from 330 to 314 seats, short of an overall majority in the 650-seat House of Commons, after a troubled campaign overshadowed by two deadly terror attacks.

But what could it mean for your privacy?

It started as a private Facebook group of a few Mormon women in Utah, upset about the Trump administration’s travel ban on immigrants. In a matter of weeks, Mormon Women for Ethical Government went national.

Iran has not seen a terror attack like the twin assaults that took place on Wednesday in decades. Many in the country were stunned.

If ISIS did carry out Wednesday's attacks in the Iranian capital, it would come as no surprise to William McCants, author of "The ISIS Apocalypse."

Solar power accounts for just under 1.5 percent of electricity in the US, but there are now twice as many jobs in solar as there are in the coal industry. Can this trend help laid-off coal miners?

ISIS claimed to have mounted a pair of attacks in Iran Wednesday, which killed a dozen and left 40 wounded.

Authorities were able to identify the alleged leaker, a 25-year-old National Security Agency contractor, after paper copies of the documents she allegedly provided to a news media organization were shared with the NSA for verification reasons.

Susan Rice, a former national security advisor under President Barack Obama, says President Donald Trump's actions worry her, but the model of Western democracy hasn't entirely collapsed — yet.

“It’s about women, loving women, no matter where we come from, no matter what we look like, and that it’s our story to tell, when we want to tell it."

Youssef Zaghba, Rachid Redouane and Khuram Shazad Butt are all suspected in the violent attack on London Bridge this past weekend.

Why one man chose not to mark himself as "safe" on Facebook during the attack in London.

From old satellite data, two optical oceanographers have created a new digital map of the Gulf of Mexico, which may allow researchers to better understand the long-term effects of the 1979 Ixtoc oil spill.

Terror attacks around the world, including in London this past weekend, are prompting questions about what can be done to avoid such attacks, and what it will take for the public to feel safer.

It’s unlikely that the Moro Islamic Liberation Front has real ties to ISIS, because despite their ongoing push for independence, they’re highly pragmatic — putting family clans and business first.

First came Greece's economic crisis, then the refugee crisis on Lesbos. Myrta Kalampoka almost had sell her family's olive trees. Then she had an idea.

Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen and the Maldives joined Saudi Arabia and Egypt in severing relations with gas-rich Qatar, with Riyadh accusing Doha of supporting groups, including some backed by Iran, "that aim to destabilize the region".

It's a bad time to be a sea turtle. They’re threatened by pollution. They get caught in fishing nets. Their habitat is being destroyed by coastal development. As if all that weren’t bad enough, they must also contend with egg poachers.

This weekend's terrorist attack in London has upended the upcoming UK parliamentary elections.

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Some lingering questions about the magnetron in your kitchen, answered.

Many soldiers in Colombia's 53-year-long war have sustained wounds to their sexual organs. Here are the stories of a few remarkable men who've undergone surgery and rehabilitation to get on with their lives.

With an ally in the White House and declining demand for oil in the US, American companies are pushing to expand the nation's oil infrastructure in order to export crude overseas.

What keeps you up at night? Is it your finances? Your job? Your health? Maybe you’re worried because you’re lying awake worrying. Well, don’t worry: it’s not all bad.