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The Census Bureau has recommended that a new Middle East and North Africa (MENA) racial category be added to the next census, coming in 2020. This could be interpreted as an alarming development — but advocacy groups have been pushing for it for a while.

Boko Haram means "western education is forbidden." But some of the Chibok girls who managed to escape the extremist group are getting that forbidden education.

Kathrada got four college degrees while in prison on South Africa's Robben Island.

The Pentagon has confirmed that the ISIS-fighting coalition carried out a strike on March 17 in an area of western Mosul where residents say more than 100 civilians were killed. US officials say they're investigating the incident.

Dominic Raimondo, a former Lost Boy of Sudan who now lives in the US, visited the Kakuma refugee camp with a mission — to protect Sudanese culture.

Sunday’s rally, organized on social media, proved a test of the power of the internet in Russia — and of the opposition.

Jared Kushner, 36, was Trump's main intermediary with foreign governments during the 2016 election campaign and now plays that role in the White House.

Like many Rust Belt cities, as industry left the area, Buffalo saw a huge decrease in population and a spike in poverty. But community activists are getting creative, finding ways to help poor people save money and get jobs. And some efforts are fighting climate change too.

These days, hunger is a political issue spurred on by human conflict.

Under President Barack Obama, the EPA worked closely with industry to reach a fleet fuel economy standard of about 54 mpg, starting in 2025. Now, the auto industry lobby has asked EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt to consider rolling back that standard.

New research confronts the idea that plate tectonics started when the Earth was formed.

The task of filtering harmful content from social websites and apps falls largely to humans — and those who do the job say it takes a toll.

Yemen's Ansar Allah, better known as the Houthis, were a homegrown religious-political movement receiving little more than moral support from Iran. But their war with Saudi Arabia is causing Iran to send weapons, risking a real proxy war.

How a teenage fan convinced her dad to make the movie.

"Get Out" is a critique of relations between black and white Americans, wrapped up in a funny and scary horror movie.

An Israeli teenager is suspected of being behind the bomb threats. The big question is: What were his motives?

The TV show has been criticized for stereotyping Muslims as terrorists. But in season six, the show is striving for a much more nuanced portrayal.

Memory can be slippery, especially when there's incentive to forget, or misremember. In the Polish village of Jedwabne, residents long said Nazis were responsible for the massacre, one hot day in July 1941, of hundreds of Jews in the village. Then evidence emerged that the villagers of Jedwabne had killed their own neighbors.

Ali Awada, advocacy and campaign manager for the gender-equality group ABAAD, has been working to convince politicians and the Lebanese people that it's time to abolish the law.

In six years, Egypt's Hosni Mubarak has gone from symbolizing the hubris of Middle East dictators swept away by the Arab Spring uprisings to an emblem of dashed hopes.

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Denis Voronenkov was a former Russian lawmaker. He was also a critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. And he was assassinated in broad daylight on Thursday in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. Ukraine's leaders are pointing the finger at Russia.

Raul Castro has opened up Cuba's economy but not much else has changed.

The city held a candlelit vigil in Trafalgar Square to remember the victims of Wednesday's attack.

If you are an immigrant woman, can you still report domestic abuse and sexual assault without fear of deportation?

The Egyptian heart surgeon-turned-satirist laughed his way through the Arab Spring ... right into exile. Now he's in the United States relaunching his career and laughing about that, too.

A poem about mental health won him a seat on a commercial spacecraft. So British Muslim Hussain Manawer is set to go to space in 2018. But here on Earth, he's regularly stopped and questioned at airports.

The investigation into what happened in London on Wednesday is just getting underway. But early signs point to a "lone wolf" attack by an ISIS supporter. Research suggests these attackers are often carefully groomed and mentored one-on-one by ISIS operatives in Iraq and Syria.

Few things reveal the differences between the US and Finland as clearly as health care.

Shanthi Sekaran’s novel, a Global Nation Book Club pick, delves into privilege, motherhood and immigration, legal and not.

Scientists are uncovering new details about the microbiome in the clouds.

Britain's parliament went into lockdown on Wednesday as a police officer was stabbed and the alleged assailant shot, reportedly after ploughing down pedestrians on one of London's busiest bridges. At least four people are dead, including the officer and the attacker.

The war in Syria takes lives every day. But at a clinic just eight miles south of the Syrian-Jordanian border, new lives are being created.

Gish Jen is well aware of the dangers of stereotyping. That doesn't stop her from unpacking the controversial notion that a deep culture divide separates East and West.

In 1944 Henryk Ross buried his negatives. He was the official photographer of the Lodz ghetto in Poland. The ghetto was being liquidated, and Ross was unsure if he would survive to retrieve his work. He did.

The highly unusual torrential rains have been caused by a localized version of the hemispherewide condition.

"I’m more than just Asian American and others’ perception of what an Asian American is,” says Ekk Sisavatdy, who works with students who don't fit the straight-A stereotype of Asian American students.

“It’s an internal American issue,” the Kremlin spokesman says of congressional hearings over Russian involvement in the US election. “Our relationship to all this hysteria is well known.”

On Friday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called for an end to Barack Obama's "strategic patience" policy.

Britain and the US have banned laptops and tablet computers from the passenger compartment of flights from several Middle East and North African nations. A French civil aviation agency spokesman said France was considering whether to impose similar measures.

The one-time Irish Republican Army commander later helped negotiate an end to the conflict in Northern Ireland.

In Saqlawiyah, ISIS isn't the problem. The problem is the militia that drove ISIS out of town.

Acesulfame potassium can be found in many processed foods and drinks — and now, scientists are looking for it in public swimming pools.

For decades, Keiko Ogura didn't talk about the US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.

Guerrilla theater meets spontaneous drag show in Havana's Calle Reina.

Boston's public schools are leading the way with the Gall-Peters projection world maps for its classrooms.

The musician is rumored to have chosen venues based on their proximity to Indian restaurants.

“Politics demonizes. Culture humanizes.”