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Natives of US territories are subject to United States laws, but can't always exercise American rights.

A woman recounts what it was like to discover she had been infected with Zika six weeks before she was due to give birth.

Try spending Halloween amid the spooky ruins of this abandoned settlement in the mountains of Spain.

Rio de Janeiro is famous for its openness. Rights groups are afraid that evangelical right-winger Marcelo Crivella will change that.

When she was 14, Xiomara picked up a gun and joined Colombia's Marxist guerrilla group, the FARC. She stayed in the wilderness for 15 years. Now she faces the challenges of thousands of other women who have left the rebel group: how to come back.

Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders was represented by a lawyer and an empty chair on the first day of his trial in Amsterdam.

For a long time, health experts have pointed out moderate sun exposure as a way to increase vitamin D levels in our bodies. So how could it be that a country with a lot of sunlight has a population with major vitamin D deficiency?

Mexican-American singer Lila Downs is voting in her first US election. That may surprise some of her fans, as Downs is known for her politically-charged music.

Local media has portrayed 60-year-old Choi Soon-Sil as a Rasputin-like figure who wielded an unhealthy influence over President Park Geun-Hye.

Bulk food bins have been around for a while. But an entire store devoted to selling everything in bulk, eliminating packaging and asking shoppers to bring their own containers is relatively new. The Fillery, a new store due to open in Brooklyn later this year, wants to be that store.

Blanding’s turtles are considered a threatened species in Massachusetts. The nonprofit Grassroots Wildlife Conservation is working to protect newly hatched turtles, as mortality is high in the first year, and has found willing helpers among some local elementary students.

We can now order personal blood tests online — and take them anytime we want. Is that a good thing?

By swapping in a gene from a hornless cow breed, scientists have created hornless Holstein cattle — and a new twist in the debate around GMO foods.

At least one of the US presidential candidates has a plan to address climate change and propose new industries to combat it. But can she get it done if she is elected?

Devices from all the big tech companies now include digital assistants like Siri and Alexa. Developers are working to make them more socially aware — like people.

Taken together, the world’s reservoirs have as big an impact on the Earth’s climate as the population of Canada.

Matthew Bunn recalls his father George Bunn — and their intersecting work to control the spread of nuclear weapons and material.

Trump's mother was born and raised on the Isle of Lewis. Locals say there's a disconnect between Trump's image and their image of themselves.

"One thing that I repeatedly heard," says Jenni Monet, a journalist on the scene, "is that this fight is not over."

The Doukhobors emigrated to Canada in the early 1900s after becoming outcasts in Russian society. They no longer use their Russian dialect, except when they sing.

Pakistan's US-backed campaign against terrorists in its tribal areas forced this family from home. But it's not all bad news.

Back in 2004 Jamie Hiscocks was taking a walk on the beach in the south of England when he spotted a small brown pebble — just a few inches across. About 130 million years before, it had been a brain. A dinosaur brain.

Katie Nelson is a freelance photographer and reporter in Nairobi. On a recent trip to a bookstore, she picked up some old National Geographic magazines, including one that is quite famous. The timing, though, was quite ironic.

In elections this weekend, Iceland's Pirate Party is expected to win big — perhaps enough to becoming the country's ruling party.

The unpopular president faced fresh pressure Friday as the opposition called for a nationwide strike.

Saudi Arabian Rutaba Yaqub went to Pakistan to study engineering. While she was there she discovered a love for singing — and she's found that conservative Pakistan is the place that givers her the freedom to really develop her music.

Earlier this week, Curt Schilling went on CNN and asked host Jake Tapper how Jewish people could support Democrats. He should have asked a sociologist who specializes in the attitudes of American Jews. We did.

A large number of unaccompanied minors are still sleeping in the open around the "Jungle" migrant camp near the French port of Calais, in spite of widespread fires and police efforts to clear the area.

If you're living in Russia right now, you might think World War III is just around the corner. Forty million people recently took part in a civil defense exercise. State-controlled media is warning of possible US attacks. The military has moved missiles closer to Western Europe. So what gives?

It's not that Deepak Singh craves hearing Hindi or eating hot samosas all the time. It's just that something about being in a small town makes him crave them more.

How a US drone strike upended the life of a 12-year-old Pakistani girl.

The US will take in close to 70,000 refugees this year from across the globe. Many are highly educated: doctors, engineers and accountants. A program in Boise, Idaho is helping these refugees find jobs more suited to their backgrounds.

Edvard Munch was a glum, depressed and obsessed artist. Right? Wrong, says the man who created a graphic biography that reveals another side of the painter.

Shehzil Malik is a talented illustrator determined to spark a conversation about the way men treat women.

A tax on sugary sodas is on the ballot in three California cities this November. And immigrant grocers are the face of the anti-soda tax campaign.

One linguist says in a way, the Magic City feels some shame about its Latin heritage.

Would collecting census data about Americans of Middle Eastern and North African descent lead to more discrimination or more services?

There is a lot of bling buried in the beaches of Rio de Janeiro. But the beach "gold miners" say there are fewer treasures than there used to be.

America is deeply involved in the Syrian conflict(s). What do the candidates plan on doing about it?

This Pakistani politician got into office on a women's quota system. Now she's giving millions of women a leg up.

You can't make beer without hops, but climate change is threatening the future of the crop in a place that grows a quarter of all the world's supply — Washington state. That's got growers and brewers there and around the world scrambling to make changes to improve the resilience and sustainability of their industry.

Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio has earned friends and foes nationwide for his tough stance on illegal immigration. Now, immigrants and their allies in several US states are mobilizing to get him out of office.

Steven Petrow offers up his suggestions for making your social media life compatible with the current, heated political climate.

Despite the dangers, Mosul citizens are reporting the news right under the noses of ISIS.

Um-E Salma was just 17 when she was married. And she was scared. But she wouldn't let the marriage, or the daughter who came a little while later, deter her from her dreams. And now she's hoping her daughter has a better path.

Who's to blame? Two militant groups have taken credit. Pakistan's army blames a third group. And some point fingers at the army itself, accusing security forces of fostering the very extremist groups now attacking the country.

Ninth-graders in the "immigrant city" of Lawrence, Massachusetts dig into global gender issues during a Model UN meeting.

Dueling narrators in Newman's lively satire play with Putin's name and his hyper-manly image.

With recent announcements by companies like SpaceX, experts say the technology get us to Mars may not be far off — if we’re ready to live there.

Climate scientist Gordon Hamilton died in Antarctica over the weekend when his snowmobile plunged into a deep glacial crevasse. His research in Antarctica and Greenland focused on the relationship between melting ice sheets and rising sea levels.