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Updated 2025-07-02 13:46
Check out Randy Newman's new music video, all about Vladimir Putin
Dueling narrators in Newman's lively satire play with Putin's name and his hyper-manly image.
How close are we to sending humans to Mars?
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.
US climate scientist killed in Antarctica accident
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.
About the Mosul offensive — did the 'element of surprise' ever matter?
Donald Trump has criticized the Obama administration for failing to use the element of surprise in the current military offensive on the Iraqi city of Mosul. But is that a valid complaint? And does it even make a difference?
With no public officials in sight, a local Haitian leader takes matters into her own hands
She's sheltering hundreds of neighbors in her house, running a school and orphanage, and trying to get clean water to those in need.
Life under ISIS is 'endlessly frightening and endlessly tedious'
Fear and boredom are front and center in territory held by ISIS extremists in Iraq.
This Pakistani police officer is part of a trend that could make a more peaceful world
More female police officers means more stability for everyone, researchers say. Meet one policewoman in Pakistan helping to bear that out.
As France dismantles 'Jungle' migrant camp, the UK grapples with how to help
Migrants lugging their meager belongings boarded buses Monday under a French plan to raze the notorious camp that has become a symbol of Europe's refugee crisis.
For some refugees, integration into UK society doesn't mean acceptance
Sabir Zazai fled Afghanistan and made a new life in Coventry, England. Now he helps recently arrived refugees through some of the same struggles he's had.
Even Danes are trying to stop Donald Trump from becoming president
With less than three weeks before election day and three bizarre presidential debates behind us, an unexpected group is on the ground stumping hard for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton: The Social Democratic Youth of Denmark.
Why broken ceasefires are actually good for peace
Ceasefires in Syria and Yemen last week were broken by fighting. But that doesn't mean they were a waste.
Why American Evangelicals are a huge base of support for Israel
Support for Israel is stronger among American evangelicals than it is even among American Jews.
The largest-ever world wildlife conference made progress on stemming illegal wildlife trade
Every three years or so, the Convention on International Trade Of Endangered Species (CITES) meets to determine the best way to protect plants and animals traded across borders. The most recent meeting was deemed a great success by most of the participants.
'The Hidden Life of Trees' asks us to rethink our relationship to the world's forests
According to Greek mythology, trees in a certain grove spoke with the gift of prophecy. There are many stories of talking trees, from the Disney film Pocohontas to the Lord of the Rings. Now, a German forester says trees actually can talk — at least to each other.
What’s the future of your commute?
No longer just taxi alternatives, ride-booking apps like Uber are striking deals to supplement or replace transit and parking options in some cities.
What happens in our brains when we look at art?
Seeing isn’t perceiving. When we pause at a museum to study a painting, our brains get to work.
Jakarta is having a vinyl renaissance
In Indonesia, where record-pressing plants went out of business decades ago, vinyl is enjoying a renaissance. Here’s how a new generation of collectors is finding their treasures.
One astronaut says his career seemed unlikely, 'like growing up to be Spider-Man'
Mike Massimino has been to space twice to repair the Hubble Telescope, but his career as an astronaut wasn’t always likely.
Sarah Glidden wants her non-fiction comics to be a 'gateway drug' to learning about tough issues
In 2010 cartoonist Sarah Glidden tagged along with journalist friends as they traveled to Turkey, Iraq and Syria to report on those displaced by the war in Iraq. "Rolling Blackouts" features her hand-drawn observations.
A new opera star emerges from the 'vocal breadbasket' of South Africa
She didn't hear opera performed until she was in high school, but she knew immediately it was her calling.
The Islamic State's branding crisis
The terror group's image as the bringer of the apocalypse has been shattered. But they're already adapting.
Parents, take a moment to thank the inventor of the disposable diaper
Valerie Hunter Gordon died this month at the age of 94. She invented one of the first disposable diapers, cutting prototypes out of military parachute silk that she stitched on her living room table.
Borders, belonging, identity, immigration and refugees in Ireland and Germany
Trace your family tree back far enough, and you'll likely find an immigrant or a refugee. Even seemingly homogenous populations, like Ireland's, have had plenty of them over time, coming in and going out. Germany is now integrating almost a million refugees who have come in over the past year. In the face of such changes, how do people in each country consider, expand or defend their identities?
Pakistan's female cricket star is blazing a trail — but there's still a lot of work to do
Sana Mir is well-known as a cricket star — and rightly so. She's put women's cricket in Pakistan on the international stage. But she's also changing perceptions of what it means to be a Pakistani woman, at home and abroad.
At this new exhibit, you can feel what it's like to be a refugee
It's hard to imagine the life of a refugee. A new exhibit from Doctors Without Borders hopes to make it easier.
How Donald Trump's anti-immigration rhetoric divided a city
The city councilors in Brockton, a city in Massachusetts, have decided to wait until after the presidential election to vote on a measure to make life easier for undocumented immigrants.
Canadians want Americans to know they're already great
Most Canadians live within 100 miles of the US border and they're sick to death of the negative and dispiriting tone of the American presidential campaign. So one ad agency came up with a great big hug of a social media campaign to reassure Americans that they're already great.
Idaho’s first Syrian refugee wants Americans to understand their country's vetting process
The city of Boise, Idaho, is taking in a lot of Syrian refugees: 122 so far this year. Asmaa Albukaie, who arrived in November 2014, was the first.
Cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz responds to Donald Trump's 'bad hombres' debate line
When Mexican American cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz heard Donald Trump use the phrase "bad hombres" during the presidential debate, he knew it was going to be one of the lines of the night. Then he got to work.
Major League Baseball hopes that Africa's got talent
Major League Baseball is filled with players from Latin America and the Caribbean. Now it's searching for prospects in Africa.
How Donald Trump ended up at a Bollywood-themed Hindu rally in New Jersey
It’s not that Indian Americans favor Trump. It’s that Trump reminds many of his Hindu supporters of a political movement in India.
A 'questionable result' in Iran's 2009 presidential election nearly tore the country apart
Back in 2009 Iranians went to the polls to vote for a new president. The polling stations closed late at night and only a few hours later, the winner was announced. Many said that wasn't enough time to count the votes.
Why Haitians are stranded in Mexico
A crisis is building at the US-Mexico border as thousands of Haitians make their way there from Brazil, migrating as the South American country's economy tanks.
Clinton's complicated history in Haiti has some voters saying, why vote at all?
During Wednesday night's presidential debate, Republican nominee Donald Trump referenced his trip to Miami's Little Haiti neighborhood, likening the city to the Caribbean country, saying that people there "hate the Clintons because what's happened in Haiti with the Clinton Foundation." Clinton defended the foundation's work, comparing its accomplishments to those of the Trump Foundation's. It underscored the complicated feelings about Clinton among Haitian-Americans.
What it's like to learn a second language when you can't read and write in your first
In Afghanistan, survival meant escaping the Taliban. In Belgium it means learning Dutch.
Refugees don’t always trust cops, so Boise has one just to help them
The US will resettle close to 85,000 refugees from across the globe here this year. Many have been ending up in Boise, Idaho. So many in fact, that the city now has a special police officer assigned to that community.
Why one American wants Catalonia to be Europe’s new nation
We spoke to Liz Castro, author of “Many Grains of Sand: A sourcebook of ideas for changing the world, tried and tested in Catalonia,” about why Catalans want to break away from Spain.
Donald Trump ‘almost sounded like a Brazilian.’ A backer of Rio’s Trump Hotel weighs in.
The Trump brand might seem like a hard sell these days — especially in Latin America. But a couple of years ago, Brazilian businessman Paulo Figueiredo Jr. backed an ambitious project: building South America’s first Trump hotel.
Is Russia pursuing a 'Grozny' solution for Aleppo?
Otherwise known as "peace through obliteration."
Keeping our planet cooler just got a little easier
Negotiators have agreed to a global phase-out of chemicals that run some air conditioners and refrigerators, but are also big contributors to global warming. That has countries and researchers scrambling to come up with clean and affordable alternatives.
Harvard has a $35 billion endowment. Its dining hall workers are on strike for a $35,000 minimum salary.
It's the first workers strike at Harvard University in 33 years. Dining hall workers walked off the job in early October, looking for better wages and health insurance coverage.
There's 'remarkable' dysfunction in Europe's counterterror systems
The ISIS attacks on France and Belgium exposed weaknesses in Europe’s approach to borders and information sharing that counterterror officials had warned about for years. The vulnerabilities remain largely unaddressed.
A day in the life of immigration limbo
Day after anxious day, a mother who escaped gang violence with her children in El Salvador waits in Boston to know whether she and her family can stay in the US legally or not.
Mosul after ISIS will be a test for all of Iraq
Few doubt that the US-backed alliance will beat the Islamic State out of the Iraqi city of Mosul. But solving that problem is expected to unleash new struggles in Iraq and beyond. Here are some of the biggest challenges ahead.
Funeral bells around the world are tolling for Aleppo
Hundreds of churches across the world are ringing bells to draw attention to suffering and "nonstop funerals" in the Syrian city of Aleppo.
How the Arizona Republic is handling death threats after endorsing Clinton
“We weren’t going to sit down as a news organization and just take a pass," says Mi-Ai Parrish, the head of the conservative paper. "So we didn’t."
Nigeria's #BringBackOurGirls campaign celebrates 21 returnees
Twenty-one Nigerian school girls were reunited with their parents Sunday after two years in captivity. They say Boko Haram is still holding some of their classmates.
What a 'rigged' election actually looks like
Donald Trump has claimed that the US election is rigged against him. An international elections expert explains why that's not the case.
A once-dreamy Haitian beach town picks up the pieces after Hurricane Matthew
What it means to be lucky in the aftermath of a brutal storm.
There's a hospital in the United Arab Emirates that serves only falcons
The US has the bald eagle. The United Arab Emirates has falcons. The bird is rooted in the country's culture and tradition. And a hospital near Abu Dhabi is helping preserve that tradition.
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