The World: Latest Stories

The president reportedly interviewed four candidates. They were all white men.

A handful of scientists skipped a large annual meeting in Boston this weekend, where the impact of Trump administration policies on science took center stage.

If the vote does go to a runoff, and ex-banker Guillermo Lasso wins the presidency, he has promised to end WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's asylum in Ecuador's London embassy.

As Europe shifts rightward, current policies are hotly debated.

Appellate Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Trump's pick for the US Supreme Court, has not presided over many environmental cases. But his well-written, very conservative court opinions provide insight into what his appointment could mean for law in this area.

Looking back to the US incarceration of Japanese Americans and how, as one historian puts it, people can "lose sight of our important national values of justice and rule of law."

Some walk across the border, others are smuggled. In the dead of winter, families are making the dangerous crossing from the US to Canada.

David Friedman went before the US Senate Thursday, where he made vague apologies for the divisive language that he's used in the past. One word he used during the campaign was from the era of the holocaust: "kapo."

What’s the word most people associate with the country of South Korea? K-pop. At least according to one survey conducted in Korea last year.

A Nigerian writer, Chitra Nagarajan, points out that there's a lot going outside the US that deserves attention.

We feature a unique selection of music on The World. Here are a few highlights from this month's broadcasts.

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are both masters of their nations' media, and baffling to their critics. And with the election of Trump, Washington and Moscow have been on more amiable terms. But that might not last.

What rights do we have, if any, in that no-man’s-land between the plane and the international arrivals exit?

For the second time in two days, President Donald Trump was asked by reporters about rising anti-Semitism in America. And each time, he declined to offer a straight and clear condemnation of anti-Jewish bigotry.

With some students worrying more about deportation, the pressure on campuses to declare themselves safe spaces is intensifying. But not everyone is on board.

How to measure the impact of a one-day event that highlights the role of immigrant labor?

The president announced his nominee for US secretary of labor, Alexander Acosta. He declared that he inherited "a mess." And he repeatedly blocked and attacked the reporters in the room with him.

When news that Daniel Ramirez Medina was detained in Seattle became public this week, a shiver went up the spines of hundreds of thousands of people. Juan Escalante says the fear is really — but it's time to prepare.

Women are banned from attending soccer matches in Iran. But eight women in Tehran attempted to slip through disguised as men.

As news organizations continue to report new information on the Trump administration's ties to Russia, Donald Trump has taken aim at intelligence agencies that seem to be the source of information about these ties.

Race and money — are those the two things that matter most in American politics?

The Louisiana coast is losing ground in the battle against rising seas. So, the state has been working on a master plan to shore up the coast and protect homes with wetlands restoration and higher levees.

Political cartoonists are, by definition, irreverent. But the Michael Flynn affair and the Russian connection drama (complete with Presidential tweets) has satirists dropping their jaw.

A new report from the Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program at Harvard Law School says it isn't.

President Donald Trump's national security adviser, Michael Flynn, has resigned after admitting he gave "incomplete information" to Vice President Mike Pence about conversations with Russia. His departure has left America's national security establishment in a state of confusion.

Meet the "sleeping bag councilwoman" who camped out for an entire year to protest the relocation of a US military base on the island of Okinawa.

Some Russian lawmakers say the resignation of US President Donald Trump's national security adviser suggests there are efforts behind the scenes to undermine Russian-US relations. The Kremlin had no comment.

At one time, Kim Jong-nam was thought to be the natural successor to his father, North Korea’s ‘Dear Leader,’ Kim Jong-il. Now, the younger Kim is dead. And experts suspect that his death might have been a political assassination ordered by his own half-brother, the current supreme leader — Kim Jong-un.

“They can build a wall between us but nothing will keep you out of my heart,” and other unlikely Valentine’s Day cards from artist Rio Yañez.

Artist Edel Rodriguez equates Trump to a terrorist on last week's cover of Der Spiegel magazine. Rodriguez says he felt compelled to draw the cover because of his experience coming to the US as a refugee from Cuba in the 1980s.

The satirical fiction of Mosul-born Anoud targets ISIS, the international community and even refugees.

Amazon’s show “The Man in the High Castle” depicts a world where the Nazis won World War II. For one writer, it’s an uncanny look at the homefront today.

For the past three years, our reporter in London, Leo Hornak, has kept in close touch with two brothers from Somalia, both refugees. They fled the violence of the extremist group al-Shabab. But their fates have diverged. One got lucky, receiving a US green card. He's now living in Maine. The other is still waiting to get refugee status in the US. But with Trump's immigrant and refugee ban, it's not looking good.

Chicago-based singer Zeshan Bagewadi, better known as Zeshan B, has embraced the music his Indian father introduced him to: soul, gospel and R&B.

President Donald Trump is expected to call for the renegotiation of NAFTA, which has governed the rules of trade between the US, Canada and Mexico since 1994. But what would a new deal look like?

Back then they were struggling through an economic crisis; now they're adjusting to a new landscape. Reporter Deepa Fernandes revisits the lives of five Cuban women she met two decades ago.

In what looked set to be Mexico's biggest anti-Trump protest yet, some 20 cities joined the call to march made by a group of dozens of universities, business associations and civic organizations.

The Pentagon says North Korea's weapons program represent “a clear, grave threat” to US security. What’s not clear is how the Trump administration is going to deal with it.

Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau are almost polar opposites. They're likely to discuss free trade and Trump's immigration ban, among a host of topics. Their relationship, though, won't be like the "bromance" Trudeau had with former President Barack Obama.

Not everyone thinks the controversial and chilling photo should receive the award.

“Unfortunately, little kids are like sponges that soak up stereotypes,” one researcher says.

The technology is already in use, fighting the spread of child pornography.

On Thursday, details of Trump’s January 28 phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin were brought to light in a Reuters report from investigative journalists David Rohde and Jonathan Landay.

The researchers behind a new study think we can — and their “inoculation” against fake news doesn’t require a needle.

The world’s enduring image of Marilyn Monroe — standing over a subway grate in a blowing white dress — comes from the film “The Seven Year Itch.” Now, another look at that scene has come to light.

Iran at first banned US wrestlers from this year's Freestyle World Cup, in response to President Donald Trump’s executive order forbidding visas for Iranians.

One tech CEO is making a statement against the travel ban with a billboard in Times Square.

White evangelical Christians and Roman Catholics voted for Trump in big numbers. But more of them are speaking out against the administration’s move to block many Muslims from entering the US.

There's a Facebook page for Donald Trump fans in Lebanon and it's getting thousands of likes.