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Insurgents in Afghanistan carried out the deadliest attack of the war on the Afghan military last week. The violence is raising fresh questions about the direction of the war, and the US' role in it. Defense Secretary James Mattis is visiting to assess calls for more US troops.

Rodrigo Tot helped his community win a landmark court decision that ordered the government to issue land titles to the Q’eqchi people and put environmental safeguards in place to stop destructive nickel mining in the region.

Sure, some students can manage to study abroad. But a cultural exchange program in Minnesota is putting a twist on the concept, making it local and far more accessible.

While the Trump administration could be willing to work with the Democratic demands for insurance subsidies to support low-income families on Obamacare, there's one issue that they do not want to budge on: funding for the president's border wall.

It's a win for the environment, and the government says it will retrain artisanal miners for new careers, but they're skeptical of politicians' promises.

April 20 marks the anniversary of the worst offshore oil spill in United States history. A scientist and a playwright discuss how oil still marks the Gulf region.

Climate scientists are seeing signs of another El Niño forming off the coast of South America.

Researchers have enlisted some of the world’s largest telescopes to search for extraterrestrial life. But what exactly are they looking for?

For one, it doesn’t always cause a bull's-eye rash.

Thursday's terror attack will undoubtedly have an influence on the French election, but how won't be clear until Sunday.

After decades when democracy was on the rise, the current trend seems to be of aspiring autocrats riding populist waves to power, and then misusing that power to amass wealth for themselves and their families. Forget what President Donald Trump says about journalists being the "Enemy of the People," says Drew Sullivan, head of the Organized Crime & Corruption Reporting Project — investigative reporting has never been more important.

The civil wars raging in Syria are pretty horrific for most people involved. But for North Korea, the carnage has had a silver lining. They've made a ton of money selling weapons and ammunition.

Over the centuries London has had more than its fair share of bank robberies, diamond thefts and even train robberies. This month, police solved something a little more exotic: the great British taxidermy heist.

A watchdog group that tracks human rights in the South Korean military says the army leadership is violating its own regulations by going after soldiers suspected of homosexual activity.

In roughly 200 cities across the globe, marchers on Sunday will advocate for everything from GMOs to federal science funding.

While humans construct our physical spaces based on individual preferences and then mitigate the consequences later, nature inherently adopts flexibility as a cornerstone of design.

A doctor in Michigan just got arrested on charges of performing female genital mutilation on young girls. For many, it came as a shock — but mutilating women is a widespread practice around the globe, and it's happening in the US.

"In France, we talk constantly about Muslims, especially Muslim women, but you never get to hear us." That's why some French Muslim women started the online magazine, Lallab.

Sona Hosseini fell in love with astronomy when she went on a class trip to a Houston planetarium. "I was asking the lady, ‘How can I work here?’ The lady told me, ‘Oh, honey, you should have a PhD.’"

The deportation of 23-year-old Juan Manuel Montes has made many people given temporary status reason to be nervous. "Now I can't help but look over my shoulder," says Martha Zavala Perez.

A social media firestorm is raging in South Korea over a comment from US President Donald Trump that Korea used to be a part of China. The government in Seoul says that’s not true. But is it?

At the University of California, Davis, law students take on immigrant cases, with guidance, and double as cultural navigators too.

How about Mexico? Some migrants are now considering the country as a possible home, instead of risking getting caught and deported at the US border.

Police backed by armored trucks fired tear gas to break up a large march as it reached a vital freeway in Caracas, then edged back slightly as masked protesters pelted them with stones.

Fifteen million people around the world have perhaps the worst job imaginable: scavenging junk from the world's dumps. But in Morocco, a group of trash pickers has made the transition to well-paid employees of a new recycling center. And they hope it's an example others can follow.

The man’s roommates found him unconscious and he was turning blue, not breathing. He was overdosing on heroin.

ICE detained hundreds of people and deported most of them. A decade later, New Bedford, Massachusetts, is still home to a large undocumented population.

According to one leading automotive researcher, designing driverless cars is only half the challenge. These futuristic vehicles are also going to have to be safeguarded from hackers.

May's new sound is showcased in her latest album, "Life. Love. Flesh. Blood."

‘A new set of geopolitical circumstances make Israeli outreach — and Arab acceptance — much more possible than it was before’

More than 70 years ago, a group of Jewish prisoners dug a tunnel using mostly their hands and spoons to escape their Nazi captors. A team of archaeologists has recently discovered the tunnel in Ponar forest outside of Vilnius, Lithuania. The discovery is the subject of a new documentary.

Mashal Khan was a young journalism student with his whole future ahead of him. On April 13, fellow classmates apparently attacked him to death.

Nestle extracts billions of dollars worth of groundwater from western Michigan, but it pays the state just $200 a year in paperwork fees to do so.

Castro went missing Thursday evening after posting a Facebook Live video from the shoulder of a highway near Mexico City, saying a group of criminals was "hunting" him.

It's iceberg season in Ferryland, Canada. Check out the photos!

Journalist Susie Neilson explores our love-hate relationship with city noise.

Gerard Fesch was 40 when he learned his father, Jacques Fesch, had been executed for murder in France.

An unmarked hotel along the Mexico-Guatemala border has become a frequent stop for weary migrants from parts of Africa and Haiti heading north.

Even without legal status, immigrants in New Bedford, Mass. are organizing to face what they think is unfair work treatment.

Climate change is the primary culprit, and while it's long been suspected that reefs would be devastated by ocean warming, scientists were not expecting this level of destruction for another 30 years.

A forgotten crypt has been uncovered in London with the remains of at least five archbishops of Canterbury from several centuries ago.

It all depends on how we design and use them.

French voters were on edge after two men were arrested and accused of plotting an attack to disrupt the upcoming election. Meanwhile, polls indicate a tightening race.

He called her "daughter" or "dearest Kraut." She called him "Papa." A letter from Ernest Hemingway to Marlene Dietrich goes on sale next month in New York, and it speaks to their intense, flirty relationship.

Optician Carmine Menna, his wife Rosario, and six of their friends were sleeping after a night of revelry at sea in a small yacht off the coast Lampedusa in the early hours of Oct. 3, 2013, when they heard what sounded like seagulls fighting.

A razor-thin victory for Turkey's president seems to further destabilize a NATO ally.

Vice President Mike Pence visited South Korea this week and offered a pointed warning to North Korea. But this is far from the first time the rhetoric over North Korea’s nuclear program has grown heated.

If you're still working on your taxes, you're probably not alone: Americans will spend more than 6 billion hours preparing their taxes, which includes digging up W-2s, sifting through receipts, and filling out any number of forms. The amount we spend to get it done by firms or by ourselves with software is high.