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The war in Syria takes lives every day. But at a clinic just eight miles south of the Syrian-Jordanian border, new lives are being created.

Gish Jen is well aware of the dangers of stereotyping. That doesn't stop her from unpacking the controversial notion that a deep culture divide separates East and West.

In 1944 Henryk Ross buried his negatives. He was the official photographer of the Lodz ghetto in Poland. The ghetto was being liquidated, and Ross was unsure if he would survive to retrieve his work. He did.

The highly unusual torrential rains have been caused by a localized version of the hemispherewide condition.

"I’m more than just Asian American and others’ perception of what an Asian American is,” says Ekk Sisavatdy, who works with students who don't fit the straight-A stereotype of Asian American students.

“It’s an internal American issue,” the Kremlin spokesman says of congressional hearings over Russian involvement in the US election. “Our relationship to all this hysteria is well known.”

On Friday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called for an end to Barack Obama's "strategic patience" policy.

Britain and the US have banned laptops and tablet computers from the passenger compartment of flights from several Middle East and North African nations. A French civil aviation agency spokesman said France was considering whether to impose similar measures.

The one-time Irish Republican Army commander later helped negotiate an end to the conflict in Northern Ireland.

In Saqlawiyah, ISIS isn't the problem. The problem is the militia that drove ISIS out of town.

Acesulfame potassium can be found in many processed foods and drinks — and now, scientists are looking for it in public swimming pools.

For decades, Keiko Ogura didn't talk about the US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.

Guerrilla theater meets spontaneous drag show in Havana's Calle Reina.

Boston's public schools are leading the way with the Gall-Peters projection world maps for its classrooms.

The musician is rumored to have chosen venues based on their proximity to Indian restaurants.

“Politics demonizes. Culture humanizes.”

Osborne, a conservative lawmaker, was the chancellor of the Exchequer in prime minister David Cameron's 2010-26 government, dealing with the aftermath of the global financial crisis.

No-till farming is being championed by farmers and environmentalists alike. Here's why.

The directors of the FBI and NSA are to give keenly awaited testimony before Congress Monday on what ties President Donald Trump may have with Russia.

In the future, we could treat some types of hearing loss with a single outpatient visit.

The report suggests gene editing techniques could be warranted in certain cases — and not just in the lab.

They could have the right conditions for liquid water — and life — but there’s lots we still don’t know.

Rising temperatures and a growing tick population are causing problems for moose in New England. So many ticks now live through mild winter temperatures and attack the calves, that few are surviving.

Deploying renewable energy helps the US military function better and saves the lives of soldiers, says a former deputy assistant secretary of the Navy.

When she was 10, Safia Mahjebin's father threatened to have her married off. She's from New York and now wants people to know child marriage is not just a foreign problem.

As news erupted about a shooting at the Alexis de Tocqueville High School in Grasse on Thursday, there was an expectation among much of the French public that the attacker had an ideological motive.

To fund increases for security and defense, President Trump proposes slashing federal funding for a variety of social programs, including Meals on Wheels.

As bombs rained down in Aleppo, these Syrian doctors comforted their patients — and their daughter. The couple traveled to Washington this week to lobby Congress for humanitarian aid for Syria.

The gig economy has exploded over the past decade. Could Paul Ryan’s new health care proposal halt that progress?

Two environmental law experts walk through the congressional actions and executive orders that can also slice away at the agency — and a few that already have.

A game of tug of war stretches from Austin, Texas, to Mexico City.

US President Donald Trump welcomed German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the White House today, for talks expected to focus on their differences over NATO, Russia, global trade and a host of other issues.

"Certainly we do not want to, for things to get to military conflict," the US secretary of state said. "If they elevate the threat of their weapons program to a level that we believe require action, then, that option's on the table."

On Thursday, President Donald Trump released his first federal budget — it includes enough policy shockers that even Republicans in Congress say it’s dead on arrival.

The draft federal budget eliminates funding for climate research and UN climate programs.

It's not just private prisons that stand to profit from immigration detention in the US. Business is booming for a US company that bails out undocumented immigrants, and some clients are alleging fraud.

The campaign to save Nigeria's kidnapped Chibok girls had the best of intentions. But it made the girls famous, and that's a big problem.

The Arab world used to be home to hundreds of thousands of Jews who spoke their own variants of Arabic. Today, Judeo-Arabic survives only in exile. We hear stories of language and exodus from three Judeo-Arabic speakers now living in Montreal. Plus, novelist Louie Cronin on satirizing linguistics.

It was a humiliating setback for Trump, who saw his first attempt at limiting travel from the Muslim world halted by the federal courts last month after it had caused chaos at airports both in the US and abroad.

Growing up, Lina Khalifeh's father called her a troublemaker. She used to get into fights with boys a lot. Today, she's a "leader of social change," teaching girls to defend themselves.

A federal law from late last year is requiring the military to find ways to reduce taxpayer subsidies for the commissaries that sell food at discount prices to active duty and retired armed service members.

Marie Collins was sexually abused as a child by a Catholic priest in Ireland. In 2014, she joined the Vatican's commission for the protection of minors, hoping to help make changes. Now, she has resigned in frustration.

Girl Guides of Canada has canceled all trips to the US until further notice because it fears problems at the border. High school class trips to Washington are also being canceled.

Fifteen years ago, the center of London was densely populated, not just with people, but with pigeons. But something has changed. One of the reasons can be found every morning in Trafalgar Square.

A breakup upon a breakup? Scotland this week said it's planning to hold another independence referendum, and that's tripping up Prime Minister Theresa May, as she prepares to trigger Britain's own divorce from the European Union.

So, will Putin let him run?

Afghan interpreters risked their lives to work with the US military. Now a special visa program designed to give them sanctuary in the US is running out of visas.

Following is a summary of the cases, great and small, ensnaring the main contenders in France's presidential election campaign.

There have been growing fears among Jews in France since high-profile anti-Semitic attacks in 2015 and 2016. Now some Jewish parents say they're worried about anti-Semitism in French public schools.