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The Washington Post journalist Philip Kennicott says the Kochs’ climate agenda should give arts groups pause.

The Dutch, famous for their system of dikes and their serious approach to flooding, are training engineers around the world to adapt to the global warming risks of floods, torrential rains and storm surges.

President Trump may have decided to pull the US out of the Paris climate agreement, but America’s airlines are still bound by a separate agreement that regulates global warming gases from international flights. The Trump administration is reviewing the deal, but US air carriers say pulling out would hurt their competitiveness and raise costs.

One year after a terrorist attack in Nice, the city is still on edge.

Mercer Island High School students discuss their interview with US Defense Secretary James Mattis.

She told the world that she was HIV positive — and then she fought for the millions of people like her.

Edwidge Danticat's latest book, "The Art of Death," helped her process her mother's death.

The Turkish government is unveiling new monuments and has already renamed the iconic Bosphorus Bridge, various schools, mosques, a TV studio, bus and metro stops, even entire neighborhoods — all after July 15.

President Donald Trump began his whirlwind trip to Paris on Thursday. And the itinerary is packed with enough grandeur to satisfy even a former pageant king.

A crackdown on kebab shops in France has touched a raw nerve in one particular city.

The Jewish residents of the Polish village of Jedwabne were killed July 10, 1941. For years the village attributed the massacre to German soldiers. In 2000, historian Jan Gross wrote a book that told a different story, that the Jews were killed by their Polish neighbors. The book caused an uproar in Poland and the story of Jedwabne continues to reverberate in Poland today.

Liu Xiaobo was diagnosed with cancer that ultimately killed him. The renowned Nobel Prize recipient was 61 when he died.

“So there are more bears coming onshore than have in the past, and staying there longer. And when they’re on shore, they typically are losing weight, because they are eating minimally or not eating at all.”

The companies hope to stave off revisions to FCC rules governing how data is treated on the internet.

One of the largest icebergs ever recorded has snapped off the West Antarctic ice shelf, scientists who have monitored the growing crack for years said on Wednesday.

This week on The World in Words podcast: swearing around the globe and the bad words our grandmothers teach us.

Two Americans and on Briton volunteering with the Kurdish People's Protection Units appear to be the first foreign volunteers to have died fighting ISIS in Raqqa, Syria.

Adding to a snowballing scandal over government spying on journalists, activists and other public figures in Mexico, computer security experts confirmed that an independent investigation into the disappearance and alleged massacre of 43 students in 2014 was targeted with highly invasive spyware known as Pegasus.

The tech industry is concerned the US will no longer be a destination for highly skilled workers and entrepreneurs, based on an immigration change being pursued by the Trump administration.

More than 120 nations have signed on to a global United Nations treaty banning nuclear weapons, despite a lack of support by the nine nuclear-armed nations.

Fifty-five years ago, scientists created the largest man-made crater in America. Milo Nordyke was there.

What does an immigrant look like? The arrest of an undocumented Irish immigrant in Boston is challenging racial bias in immigration enforcement.

Nearly a decade ago, Rachael Cerrotti began a search for a family story that is most often relegated to history books — the journey of a World War II refugee. But with today's political climate, her grandmother's story no longer feels so remote.

The Shinchonji Church of Jesus was founded in South Korea back in 1984 by a man whose followers call him, "the promised pastor." The group has grown in its home country and expanded into Western nations. But not without notoriety.

But the mere suggestion of a partnership has left some leaders in the US and abroad worried.

Eastern Mosul is on its way to recovery, but western Mosul, where Iraqi armed forces are pushing out the remnants of ISIS, is mostly rubble.

Hundreds of new planet candidates have been identified, including 10 that could be rocky planets in the "just right" Goldilocks zone of their stars.

Climate change is forcing many of Mongolia's nomadic herders to abandon their traditional lifestyle and move to Ulaanbaatar. That's making a big smog problem in the city even worse.

It wasn't easy being a teenager in Iran. But then I was introduced to the music of Linkin Park — an American rock band. And that's when things started to shift.

Staffan de Mistura ruled out any breakthrough at this week's negotiations to end a war that has claimed more than 320,000 lives and displaced more than half of Syria's population. But he pointed to a new ceasefire brokered with US and Russian help, covering three provinces in southern Syria, as one source of hope.

A group known as “seasteaders” wants to move beyond our crowded, costly and often corrupt countries and establish new communities — even new nations — out in the open waters.

Studies suggest that in states with medical marijuana programs, there are fewer opioid overdose-related deaths.

The tanks and refineries of the huge oil and gas infrastructure that Texas is famous for leave the city of Houston at risk for devastation and massive loss of life from storm surges if a major hurricane were to hit.

President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin shook hands as they met for the first time Friday at a G-20 summit marred by violent protests and a rift between America and its Western allies over climate change and trade.

A joint report issued by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI warns that hackers have been targeting nuclear facilities in the US and other countries since May.

It wasn't long ago that hybrid and electric cars seemed a futuristic novelty. But cars that do more than burn gas passed a new milestone this week.

The Supreme Court reinstated part of President Trump's travel ban last week — even barring grandparents of people already in the US. A group of Iranians — and their grannies — are hitting back, on Instagram.

Donald Trump says he's sticking to his guns on the border wall, but in reality, the project has met delays.

Venezuelans are leaving their country in crisis and building communities elsewhere.

Why gay men and lesbian women are entering into marriages of convenience in Britain's South Asian community.

Jason Lutes grew up in Montana, speaks no German, and grew up sheltered from stories of war. But for two decades, he has been drawing a comic book about the rise of fascism in Berlin.

In 2016, Japan received a record number of applications for refugee status. It rejected 99 percent of them.

Children living near sources of pollution have virtually the same risk of developing asthma as those exposed to secondhand tobacco smoke, according to early results of a study in western Pennsylvania.

Ethiopia’s famous coffee farms are facing a climate crisis.

As the rift between the US and its European allies grows under President Donald Trump, China sees a void it can fill.

The company Hobby Lobby was caught buying looted artifacts from Iraq. They say they didn't know. Antiquities theft expert Donna Yates finds that hard to believe.

Choi Seong-guk has had a knack for drawing since he was a kid when teachers praised him for his sketches of evil American soldiers that he says he made look “as ugly and violent as possible.”