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Matthew Bunn recalls his father George Bunn — and their intersecting work to control the spread of nuclear weapons and material.

Trump's mother was born and raised on the Isle of Lewis. Locals say there's a disconnect between Trump's image and their image of themselves.

"One thing that I repeatedly heard," says Jenni Monet, a journalist on the scene, "is that this fight is not over."

The Doukhobors emigrated to Canada in the early 1900s after becoming outcasts in Russian society. They no longer use their Russian dialect, except when they sing.

Pakistan's US-backed campaign against terrorists in its tribal areas forced this family from home. But it's not all bad news.

Back in 2004 Jamie Hiscocks was taking a walk on the beach in the south of England when he spotted a small brown pebble — just a few inches across. About 130 million years before, it had been a brain. A dinosaur brain.

Katie Nelson is a freelance photographer and reporter in Nairobi. On a recent trip to a bookstore, she picked up some old National Geographic magazines, including one that is quite famous. The timing, though, was quite ironic.

In elections this weekend, Iceland's Pirate Party is expected to win big — perhaps enough to becoming the country's ruling party.

The unpopular president faced fresh pressure Friday as the opposition called for a nationwide strike.

Saudi Arabian Rutaba Yaqub went to Pakistan to study engineering. While she was there she discovered a love for singing — and she's found that conservative Pakistan is the place that givers her the freedom to really develop her music.

Earlier this week, Curt Schilling went on CNN and asked host Jake Tapper how Jewish people could support Democrats. He should have asked a sociologist who specializes in the attitudes of American Jews. We did.

A large number of unaccompanied minors are still sleeping in the open around the "Jungle" migrant camp near the French port of Calais, in spite of widespread fires and police efforts to clear the area.

If you're living in Russia right now, you might think World War III is just around the corner. Forty million people recently took part in a civil defense exercise. State-controlled media is warning of possible US attacks. The military has moved missiles closer to Western Europe. So what gives?

It's not that Deepak Singh craves hearing Hindi or eating hot samosas all the time. It's just that something about being in a small town makes him crave them more.

How a US drone strike upended the life of a 12-year-old Pakistani girl.

The US will take in close to 70,000 refugees this year from across the globe. Many are highly educated: doctors, engineers and accountants. A program in Boise, Idaho is helping these refugees find jobs more suited to their backgrounds.

Edvard Munch was a glum, depressed and obsessed artist. Right? Wrong, says the man who created a graphic biography that reveals another side of the painter.

Shehzil Malik is a talented illustrator determined to spark a conversation about the way men treat women.

A tax on sugary sodas is on the ballot in three California cities this November. And immigrant grocers are the face of the anti-soda tax campaign.

One linguist says in a way, the Magic City feels some shame about its Latin heritage.

Would collecting census data about Americans of Middle Eastern and North African descent lead to more discrimination or more services?

There is a lot of bling buried in the beaches of Rio de Janeiro. But the beach "gold miners" say there are fewer treasures than there used to be.

America is deeply involved in the Syrian conflict(s). What do the candidates plan on doing about it?

This Pakistani politician got into office on a women's quota system. Now she's giving millions of women a leg up.

You can't make beer without hops, but climate change is threatening the future of the crop in a place that grows a quarter of all the world's supply — Washington state. That's got growers and brewers there and around the world scrambling to make changes to improve the resilience and sustainability of their industry.

Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio has earned friends and foes nationwide for his tough stance on illegal immigration. Now, immigrants and their allies in several US states are mobilizing to get him out of office.

Steven Petrow offers up his suggestions for making your social media life compatible with the current, heated political climate.

Despite the dangers, Mosul citizens are reporting the news right under the noses of ISIS.

Um-E Salma was just 17 when she was married. And she was scared. But she wouldn't let the marriage, or the daughter who came a little while later, deter her from her dreams. And now she's hoping her daughter has a better path.

Who's to blame? Two militant groups have taken credit. Pakistan's army blames a third group. And some point fingers at the army itself, accusing security forces of fostering the very extremist groups now attacking the country.

Ninth-graders in the "immigrant city" of Lawrence, Massachusetts dig into global gender issues during a Model UN meeting.

Dueling narrators in Newman's lively satire play with Putin's name and his hyper-manly image.

With recent announcements by companies like SpaceX, experts say the technology get us to Mars may not be far off — if we’re ready to live there.

Climate scientist Gordon Hamilton died in Antarctica over the weekend when his snowmobile plunged into a deep glacial crevasse. His research in Antarctica and Greenland focused on the relationship between melting ice sheets and rising sea levels.

Donald Trump has criticized the Obama administration for failing to use the element of surprise in the current military offensive on the Iraqi city of Mosul. But is that a valid complaint? And does it even make a difference?

She's sheltering hundreds of neighbors in her house, running a school and orphanage, and trying to get clean water to those in need.

Fear and boredom are front and center in territory held by ISIS extremists in Iraq.

More female police officers means more stability for everyone, researchers say. Meet one policewoman in Pakistan helping to bear that out.

Migrants lugging their meager belongings boarded buses Monday under a French plan to raze the notorious camp that has become a symbol of Europe's refugee crisis.

Sabir Zazai fled Afghanistan and made a new life in Coventry, England. Now he helps recently arrived refugees through some of the same struggles he's had.

With less than three weeks before election day and three bizarre presidential debates behind us, an unexpected group is on the ground stumping hard for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton: The Social Democratic Youth of Denmark.

Ceasefires in Syria and Yemen last week were broken by fighting. But that doesn't mean they were a waste.

Support for Israel is stronger among American evangelicals than it is even among American Jews.

Every three years or so, the Convention on International Trade Of Endangered Species (CITES) meets to determine the best way to protect plants and animals traded across borders. The most recent meeting was deemed a great success by most of the participants.

According to Greek mythology, trees in a certain grove spoke with the gift of prophecy. There are many stories of talking trees, from the Disney film Pocohontas to the Lord of the Rings. Now, a German forester says trees actually can talk — at least to each other.

No longer just taxi alternatives, ride-booking apps like Uber are striking deals to supplement or replace transit and parking options in some cities.

Seeing isn’t perceiving. When we pause at a museum to study a painting, our brains get to work.

In Indonesia, where record-pressing plants went out of business decades ago, vinyl is enjoying a renaissance. Here’s how a new generation of collectors is finding their treasures.

Mike Massimino has been to space twice to repair the Hubble Telescope, but his career as an astronaut wasn’t always likely.

In 2010 cartoonist Sarah Glidden tagged along with journalist friends as they traveled to Turkey, Iraq and Syria to report on those displaced by the war in Iraq. "Rolling Blackouts" features her hand-drawn observations.