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The American Health Care Act would do away with health insurance mandates and create a system of tax credits to encourage Americans to purchase insurance.

Coal has deep roots in Appalachia and its local communities, but this way of life often comes with persistent water pollution. Now, with the recent overturn of the Stream Protection Rule, coal companies are under less pressure to control and clean up their environmental impact.

Lebanon's public education system can't cope with hundreds of thousands of extra Syrian refugee kids. So nonprofit groups are trying to fill the gaps.

Beth Fukumoto thought her party respected diversity and independent voices. Then, she criticized Donald Trump.

For musician Pavel Lion growing up in Soviet Russia in the '70s, rock music was a revelation. But the first Western music he embraced was disco.

The law does not use language about Muslims or Christianity, which will make it more acceptable to the courts, says Mana Yegani, an immigration lawyer based in Houston.

California has the largest economy in the US. It's also the state with the most immigrants. These two facts are not unrelated, but the way immigrants build that economy is complex.

The call for the meeting came after Pyongyang had earlier launched at least four missiles, with three splashing down in the sea close to key US ally Japan.

Catalonia, the northeastern region of Spain, is often compared to Scotland because it's a place with a distinctive identity, its own language, culture and institutions. And its leaders want to hold an independence referendum. We sat down with ex-President Artur Mas to find out more.

The Trump administration's rhetoric about Islam and terrorism is alarming to many Muslims. The imam at Boston's biggest mosque says the best response is to look outward.

David Pogue, host of NOVA’s new documentary, “The Search for the Super Battery,” discusses the booming field of battery science.

Government corruption fueled by cash from extractive industries exacerbates poverty and misery in many countries, according to the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. President Donald Trump’s first piece of legislation reversed an SEC rule designed to require companies to disclose these cash payments.

Want to find out what ISIS jihadist recruits think of Donald Trump? Ask them.

Lydia, a Great White with a Twitter account and a cult following, has traveled the length of the Earth's circumference.

The World is part of a very cool project at the upcoming South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. We've collaborated on a showcase called Contrabanned: #MusicUnites.

Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, a dual US-Somali citizen, is raising the hopes of Somalis at home and abroad.

More than 28,000 people have streamed out of west Mosul since February 19, when security forces began a push to wrest control from the Islamic State group, according to International Organization for Migration figures.

Polish musician Tomek Lipinski heard his first punk album on a cassette tape in 1978. That tape changed his life.

This past summer, an iconic Haitian band called it quits. Carimi wasn't just another pop group, though. It was Haiti's original boy band.

Converting from Islam to Christianity can be a dangerous thing in the Middle East. In some countries, it's illegal. Yet some Syrian refugees are converting, despite receiving threats.

The battle for Brexit is currently stalled on the rights that will be maintained by EU citizens in the UK after the separation. But what about Brits living on the continent?

The revelation of Jeff Sessions' Russian contacts — which directly contradicted his testimony in Senate confirmation hearings — plunged President Donald Trump's administration into fresh turmoil, dashing its hopes for a feel-good reboot after a chaotic start.

The incidents are causing fear across Jewish communities.

Shakespeare's London theater was only one of many open at the turn of the 17th century. A new project is aiming to rediscover some of those forgotten masterpieces.

President Donald Trump plans to request a $54-billion budget increase in defense spending. That sounds like a lot, but it's not as big an increase as the White House portrays it to be.

International adoption rules don't make it easy for adoptees and their biological families to search for one another. But many Korean adoptees are going abroad to find their birth families and build new ties.

President Donald Trump emphasized the importance of supporting the victims of crimes committed by undocumented immigrants in his address to Congress. Yet many immigrants feel his agenda unfairly portrays them as security threats.

Speaking to Congress, President Trump highlighted that the US trade deficit is nearly $800 billion. Sounds scary. But does it matter?

"I submit myself before the French people, because only the ballot box, and not an investigation directed against me, can decide who will be the next president of the republic," Fillon said.

It's so popular that tens of thousands of fried chicken restaurants have sprung up around the country in the last 20 years. And the competition is fierce.

It's not a cross between an elephant seal and the Pillsbury Doughboy. Russian internet users call the creature Zhdun, "the one who waits."

President Donald Trump's first official speech to a joint session of Congress will have a number of special guests in attendance. One is Hameed Darweesh, an Iraqi man who was detained in January because of Trump's immigration and refugee ban. He is the guest of congresswoman Nydia Velázquez, a Democrat from New York.

Cutting funds for diplomacy and development won't make America safer, says this former State Department official.

Software writers and technology activists are helping to design a crowd-sourcing app to help undocumented immigrants who are trying to avoid US authorities.

The Dutch suburb of Spijkenisse is a center of support for the anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim politician Geert Wilders.

They are irritated, however. “It was annoying to wake up in the morning and see that before he went to take his morning piss, he already had written a Twitter against Mexico,” says one state secretary of economic development and labor. “What’s the fixation?”

President Donald Trump's proposed immigration ban has left many musicians with a lot of uncertainty. To that point, The World is part of a very cool project — a new showcase at the upcoming SXSW festival highlighting artists from some of the seven banned countries.

New technologies could make the scientific review process more objective and accurate — but some worry about the risks of letting computers determine what gets published.

Many French people favor the English word "black" over the local equivalent "noir." Why? There's a history behind it that dates back decades — in fact, two histories: the French version seeks to be color-blind while the American one recognizes race at every turn.

When Donald Trump called some news outlets "the enemy of the people," Nikita Khrushchev's great-granddaughter got goosebumps.

Everyone's talking about the "Moonlight"-"La La Land" mix-up. But a different moment caught our attention.

A deadly shooting in Kansas last week has raised renewed concerns about anti-immigrant sentiments in America.

Seventeen years ago, Nokia introduced the 3310, the first mass-marketed mobile at the time and one of its most popular devices. It was touted as indestructible and cool. The new one is a twist on that old classic.

Siva Sundaram grew up one state over from Kansas, where an Indian immigrant was shot last week. "As long as any of our brothers and sisters — Muslim, black, Latino, or otherwise — are in danger," he wrote, "we all are."

The colorful series, which ran for a handful of years beginning in 1989, was memorable for its well-cast characters, funny plotlines and its willingness to delve into tough subjects.

This year is the 30th anniversary of the phrase "world music." This year, we're touching base with artists who were attracted to global sounds or who became champions of those sounds to reflect on what this thing, world music, is. Today, we're talking to Mickey Hart, drummer for the Grateful Dead.

Clara Schumann was one of 19the Century Europe's most well-known pianists. She was also a composer, but her husband, Robert Schumann, eclipsed her in this realm. A recording of one of Clara's piano trios has now been inducted into a prestigious collection at the Library of Congress — putting her, at least in one small way, on a par with her better-known spouse.