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Some of the environmental rules and regulations President Donald Trump has said he'll reverse could take years to overturn.

The Women's March on Washington has a predicted headcount of over 200,000 people — set to be the largest US presidential inauguration demonstration in history. But the rallying cry that "women’s rights are human rights" won’t just be heard on the streets of the nation’s capital this weekend.

On any given night in San Francisco, officials estimate there are at least 6,700 people living on the streets. The city is trying to turn it around — as are other California cities struggling with the problem of homelessness.

President Trump's record with Native communities is not good, say the Native activists who came to his inauguration to protest.

Each week on The World, we feature a unique selection of music, and every week, we put together the highlights for you here.

Despite all the change anticipated in Washington, we should expect continuity when it comes to nuclear weapons policy, says Ambassador Adam Scheinman, who has served as the State Department's special representative to the president for nuclear nonproliferation since 2014.

Travel writer Jessica Nabongo, whose blog post “Countries To Move To If Trump Becomes President” became a hit, is keeping her options open.

China says it'll invest an additional $361 billion in renewable energy projects by 2020, and in the process create 13 million new jobs. The move's in sharp contrast to Donald Trump's promise to reinvigorate the coal industry in the US. Mary Kay Magistad of The World's "Whose Century Is It?" podcast says China seems to have a clearer vision of the future.

In what might be a first, Israeli settler leaders will be attending the inauguration of Donald Trump on Friday. And these settlers see hopeful signs for big changes in US policy toward Israel and the Palestinians.

Barack Obama ended the policy of preventing gay, lesbian and bisexual soldiers from serving openly in the military. For many, it was too little, too late. But remembering what it did could make our future decisions better.

India was notably absent from the public chorus of support for the Paris agreement after Donald Trump was elected. The silence has worried experts.

Priya Jayaraman, who grew up in India, was always told to keep her head down. "Follow the rules and don't be vocal about politics," is what her parents instructed. Years later in the US, she finding her voice in other ways.

Some 273 people were pardoned or had their sentences commuted on Tuesday by President Barack Obama. One of them was 75-year-old Oscar López Rivera. His supporters from San Juan to Chicago are greeting the news like it was a national holiday.

In English, Trump's name connotes a certain grandiosity, but how well does it translate into other languages? This week on the World in Words podcast, translating Trump.

As the White House changes hands this week, the demographics of the people who work there will also likely change drastically.

Noura Mint Seymali is from Mauritania and she wants to make sure women, especially women in Africa, get their yearly breast cancer screenings. Seymali helps raise awareness through a song.

Souleymane Guengueng, at home in the Bronx, once helped imprison a brutal former president of Chad. Now, he hopes to teach others how he did it.

More than a year ago, a husband and wife from Mexico voluntarily returned to their country of origin and left their Americanized sons in the United States. Now that Trump has been elected, will more immigrant parents make the same choice?

In the waning days of his administration, President Obama commuted Chelsea Manning's 35-year sentence. The transgender soldier will now be released in May of 2017. He also pardoned or gave clemency to nearly 300 others, including former Marine Gen. James Cartwright.

Donald Trump really hasn't said much about cycling.

Women and LGBT rights have been advancing in conservative Peru — but not without a response from opponents.

The death of a Nevada woman whose bacterial infection was immune to every available drug in the US is raising new alarms about antibiotic resistance.

In the face of Brexit and the victory of Donald Trump, it fell to Chinese President Xi Jinping to defend globalization at the annual world economic meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

They used dirty tricks, planted fake and misleading stories, set up a fake polling organization and funded the opponents of politicians they disliked. The goal was to change US public opinion and manipulate its political leadership toward helping Britain defeat Nazi Germany.

The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 nearly three years ago remains one of aviation's most enduring mysteries.

About one in three Jordanian women report experiencing domestic violence but many lack access to services. Now, Jordanian women are getting help in centers set up to treat Syrian refugees.

Empathy is an inherently good human quality. So, why is Yale psychologist Paul Bloom against it? We talk with him about why feeling others’ pain makes for bad public policy.

“He was always so gentle and kind and friendly to me,” says professor Susannah Heschel, who met Martin Luther King Jr. a couple times as a little girl.

Asghar Farhadi's films have won many international awards. "A Separation" won an Oscar in 2012 — the first for Iranian cinema. His latest film, "The Salesman" was nominated for a Golden Globe.

Alarm bells are ringing in European capitals after President-elect Donald Trump said NATO was obsolete. In an interview with two leading European newspapers, Trump also criticized the European Union and said he would consider lifting sanctions against Russia. He also made a direct attack on German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the leader of one of America’s most important traditional allies.

To create a new civil rights movement, immigration activists are scrambling to overcome divisions and prepare for the unknown.

Beer in Italy used to mean Peroni. While that's still the case, there is a growing microbrew scene that's producing some incredible brews.

Two Disney animators describe the ocean-sized task of making water “come alive.”

The DearTomorrow project invites people to share messages with their loved ones about how they’re working against climate disruption — to be read decades in the future.

In their new book, a climate scientist and a political cartoonist team up to debunk the arguments against climate change.

In his new book, the astronomer Dean Regas lays out some of his favorite trivia about the cosmos.

Results from Audubon’s 117th annual Christmas Bird Count are rolling in. What’s the bird count, you say?

Witold Waszczykowski mistakenly told reporters at the UN that he'd met with various nations "such as Belize or San Escobar." Thing is, that's not a nation. The internet is having a field day.

In the last days of his presidency, Barack Obama got rid of the policy that granted Cuban migrants asylum if they made it to US soil.

In Jan. 15, 1997, Princess Diana walked through an active minefield in Angola. Here's how land mine ban advocate Paul Heslop, who helped Diana detonate a land mine in front of an audience of international reporters, remembers the day.