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At the Democratic National Convention, many in the crowd have chanted "No TPP!" That's no to the 12-member Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trading bloc that President Barack Obama supports, but Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton all oppose, at least on some level.

When Michelle Obama addressed the opening night of the Democratic convention, she darn near brought down the house. But politics don't come naturally to the first lady.

A veteran Russia watcher says computer hacks are just one of the many ways Moscow disrupts and influences foreign elections. Watch out, she says, for the Russian insiders around Donald Trump.

Ukraine's former president Victor Yanukovych spent more that $30 million on his personal estate before he fled for Russia. Think private zoo, crocodile skin-lined planters and a copy of John and Yoko's white piano.

In their book, "Paradise Lot," gardeners Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates tell personal stories of creating a food forest of perennial plants and finding romance in the process.

People in France are protesting the death of a young black man in police custody. As they channel the US Black Lives Matter movement, they're also challenging France's "colorblind" norms.

Kabul was struck by ISIS for the first time over the weekend. At least 80 people were killed. But you might not have heard.

Her name is Elena, and she hails from Avalor — a fictional place that draws from several real-world cultures.

A shadowy group calling itself Guccifer 2.0 has claimed responsibility for the DNC email hacks. However, the hackers also show a fondness for Russian emoticons.

Few places know the consequences of hate and demagoguery more than the former Yugoslav republics. Ethnic nationalism — which played a major role in the bloody disintegration of Yugoslavia — is leading America astray, says Bosnian writer Aleksandar Hemon.

Thousands of species pollinate our plants and guarantee our food, but one particular bee specializes in the squash family. As ancestral farmers spread the cultivation of squashes through the Americas, the squash bee followed.

Did you know there is a historic preserve on the moon?

Pacific Gas & Electric has decided to take the aging Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, near an earthquake fault in California, offline within 10 years and replace it with wind and solar power. But an even older reactor, Indian Point, near New York City, will continue to operate, despite defects and opposition.

Since the Bush Administration, the Department of Defense has been warning that climate change poses a threat to national security. In January 2016, Pentagon officials proposed to update their climate threat assessments, in response to a directive from President Obama. House Republicans have moved to block the Defense Department’s efforts to prepare for climate change.

What Saturn’s moon, Titan, tells us about life beyond Earth.

Here’s why scientists are against newly proposed rules on consent needed for using human specimens for research.

A Muslim couple in Lodi, New Jersey, have been watching the Republican National Convention all week. Last night, they invited a reporter in to watch Trump give his acceptance speech.

Rising temperatures are on display this weekend. And while it's tough to pin any single weather event to climate change, it's likely that climate change will lead to more hot days like we're experiencing. And that could be deadly.

Some 17 million acres of green space line US highways and byways. It's vital habitat for pollinators, as well as small voles, mice and birds.

Donald Trump has famously dismissed concern about climate change as a hoax and a con job. And on that point, he's well within the GOP mainstream, but a former GOP congressman says his party's all wrong on the science, economics and politics of the climate threat.

The chilling text came from the scene of a mass shooting at a Munich shopping mall. Witnesses talk about the panic that swept the city.

Here's how one convention-watcher summed up the speech: "Fear. Fear the Mexicans. Fear the Muslims. Fear the Chinese. Fear crime."

Even though Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed early support for letting conscientious objectors from the United States remain in Canada, not much has been done to formalize their status.

Cigarette packs have health warnings — now in one Canadian city, gas pumps have climate change warnings.

Five years after the Norway shootings, a survivor reflects on Anders Breivik, the Orlando attack, and guns.

Making it as a young musician can be tough. But for this group of young musicians from four different countries, the real challenge is getting permission to stay in the US.

How do you react to them?

"There is no secret," one of the vendors said. "The ingredients just need to be fresh.”

Who killed 9 protesters during a police action? One month later, no one has been held responsible, and a regional protest on education has mushroomed into a movement.

Humor is a way people cope with stressful situations. And there's no doubt medical professionals encounter a lot of stressful situations.

When asked if he would defend the Baltic states in the event of a Russian attack, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was hesitant to offer support.

If there's one thing economists agree on: Trump’s trade policies are deeply flawed.

Boko Haram and other factors are leading to a food crisis in northeastern Nigeria — one that could turn deadly if it doesn't change soon.

British Prime Minister Theresa May met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in her first foreign trip. Despite the country's pending EU exit, it was barely discussed.

When Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wanted to reach out to those who opposed the attempted coup last week, he didn't dial-in to a government-supported media outlet.

This phone app provides you with a guided tour from 30,000 feet in the air.

Hawk Newsome cares deeply about America's presidential election. But one thing the activist says he won't be doing in November is voting. For anyone.

Donald Trump gave a fiery anti-trade, anti-globalization speech in Monessen, Pennsylvania, a few weeks back. And people in Monessen loved hearing it.

Victor Kruglov always dreamed of a career in Hollywood. Now he has one, as an agent representing lots of Russian actors and actresses.

Stem cells, the raw building blocks of our body that can form any type of cell, have opened up an exciting area of medicine. A rediscovery in the use of blood-forming stem cells may further accelerate the treatment of aggressive cancers and autoimmune diseases.

Face-altering filters allowed victims to get around a law in India and tell their stories.

The military rebels were extremely close to taking power in Turkey. A quick-thinking pilot played a big role in thwarting them.

The Republican National Convention (and its anti-immigrant rhetoric) is just one week in the life of Cleveland. After population declines, many people in this city see immigration as key to Cleveland's success.

In retrospect, the first night of the Republican National Convention felt like a litany of the terrors of illegal immigration and radical Islam.

Donald Trump has been speaking a lot about the perils of globalization and taking special aim at Chinese manufacturers that have taken American manufacturing jobs. That’s partly true. But Americans have also benefited from alliances with Chinese-made companies.

Native American activists have been fighting to change the name of the Cleveland baseball team since the '70s.

Turkish government is back with a vengeance. In addition to the 6,000 military arrests, the authorities ordered the dismissal of thousands of education staff and college deans.

A volunteer group in Paris wanted to send a different message about migrants and refugees in public spaces. So they organized a dance party on the street.

The wetlands in southern Iraq, now a UN World Heritage site, span thousands of square miles in the middle of desert.

In Turkey, a purge.