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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.

We love music here at The World, and we love to share our latest favorites with you.

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.

In 2014, the US and China together paved the road to Paris. Now the EU's taking America's place.

Hundreds in the UK city are getting inked to show solidarity with terror attack victims.

After 27 years, Twin Peaks is back for a third season. With Russia on the rise once more, the timing couldn't be better for this cult favorite.

PRI's The World's Marco Werman reflects on the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”

"The handwriting is already up and down the wall that we'll never have the labor force that we had before," says one farm owner from a part of California where some farms are using robots to help work the crops.

María de Jesús Patricio is a traditional Nahua healer from southern Jalisco. Gender and heritage aren’t the only aspects that set her apart.

President Trump thought pulling out of the Paris climate accord would make other countries stop laughing at America. It didn't work.

Polar bears probably did, too.

Security experts are concerned about Donald Trump's cellphone use. No, not his tweets, or covfefe, but his decision to give out his cell number to world leaders and telling them to call him directly.

When I ask conservatives in Middle America about climate change, the mood nearly always grows tense.

The Marshall Islands, where American scientists tested dozens of nuclear weapons, now face the challenge of rising seas.

Iraqi forces have found the best way to fight ISIS block-by-block is with a wall of steel.

Bartolo was a minor and even though the US government had placed him with his cousin when he entered the country, his cousin wasn't actually his legal custodian. No one was.

She will serve as judge, or Qadi, in Israel’s Sharia courts.

If you wear glasses, you're in a majority in most developed countries. In developing countries, few have them, but many need them. By some estimates, two billion people in developing countries need eyeglasses, but don't have access to them. One of the groups working to bridge the gap is VisionSpring, a social enterprise that has already sold 3.7 million pairs of glasses, at affordable prices, to people in Africa and Asia making $4 or less per day, helping improve learning, work productivity, and quality of life.

One way is fast and dramatic. The other is slower and leaves wiggle room.

A massive car bomb in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday killed almost 100 people and wounded hundreds more. Learn about the lives of two of the victims, and how the death of a breadwinner in Afghanistan can leave a family in financial ruin.

President Donald Trump has a new country in his crosshairs: Germany. The president says that we have a massive trade deficit Germany and this will change. But does it need to change?

As Team Syria edges closer to qualifying to compete in the 2018 World Cup, many top soccer players face a dilemma — to play for the love of sport or to play for a team that's seen as boosting a brutal dictator.

When performing her latest single, “Peligrosa,” Downs says she thought about women who are seen as “dangerous because we think, because we have opinions, because we want to go to school, because we want to be independent.”

Why are South Korea's new graduates having so much trouble finding work? Some say it's because they only want to work for big conglomerates.

It’ll be a rare glimpse of the sun’s corona — and needless to say, the scientific community is buzzing with anticipation.

New questions have been raised over a meeting between Jared Kushner — Donald Trump's son-in-law and special adviser — and a Russian banker called Sergei Gorkov. Gorkov is a graduate of the Russian intelligence academy and has ties to Vladimir Putin.

Brzezinski was perhaps best known for his role as national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter. Lesser-known is that the Roman Catholic son of an aristocratic Polish diplomat almost became Iran’s foreign minister.

Jared Kushner is an influential figure in the White House — someone who many people have realized can be a conduit to the president.

Older mouse brains, that is — but researchers hope that the findings could someday help elderly humans.

Suicide bombings claimed by the Islamic State group killed dozens of people in the Iraqi capital, just days after the start of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

Marine scientists estimate that over 5 trillion pieces of plastic currently litter the oceans. So is there any way to clean up all that floating mess?

Two men fatally stabbed by a white supremacist in Portland "had the absolute best intentions. They were considering someone else that they did not know, above themselves.”