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Israeli linguist Arik Sadan is an authority on the Arabic language. Palestinian Sobhi Bahloul is Gaza's best-known Hebrew teacher. They share a love for the other's native tongue. But these two linguists have never met.

After the Paris attacks, people in the poor immigrant suburbs feel even more isolated.

Sam Fromartz went to Paris to learn how to make that most fickle of breads, the baguette. And it's that loaf, he says, that will help the French as they deal with the aftermath of the recent terrorist attacks.

ISIS has vowed to eliminate the "gray zone," the sphere where Muslims and non-Muslims accept their differences.

Black South Africans who make good have the financial burden of taking care of extended family. But now some South African millennials are starting to dodge the "black tax."

A newly declassified document suggests the US totally misjudged a war scare in 1983-84. It seems the Soviet Union really expected the US to launch a first strike, and consequently prepared its own pre-emptive strike. Nuclear Armageddon was set on a hair trigger.

Belgians reacted with humor when police put the city of Brussels on lockdown over the weekend. Twitter was flooded with funny cat tweets. This is unsurprising says Willem de Graeve, who co-directs the Belgian Center for Comic Strips. That's the Belgian sense of humor.

Turkey says the jet flew into its airspace. If so, it follows a year-long pattern of Russia testing international airspace for combat missions.

One priest who helped victims of the Paris attacks remembers his own experience helping communities in New York after 9/11.

The founders of a growing bakery-café in Los Angeles are breaking the rule that small business immigrant entrepreneurs do better by sticking to their own communities and crossing ethnic borders.

The emergency response to the terrorist attacks in Paris was credited with saving lives, but it was a different approach than the response Boston saw to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. Emergency responders say comparing the two emergency models can help us prepare for possible future attacks.

For centuries, herds of pronghorn have traveled hundreds of miles across the west in the second longest land migration in North America. But today, pronghorn often encounter barbed wire fences on private and public land that delay or halt their journey. Now, scientists and wildlife managers are developing fencing systems that allow the pronghorn to cross safely.

Hint: it's not just oil money.

It's out with the old ruling party in Argentina. Voters Sunday placed chose a new president, the business-friendly opposition candidate named Mauricio Macri.

Beyond the "obligatory slice of bacon" left on the door of mosques, Muslim students in Paris say they haven't felt singled out since the attacks. But they're worried.

The climate in Brussels after the Paris attacks has one business owner planning to paint over the word "Syrian" on his shopfront.

A passport was found near the body of one of the suicide bombers in Paris. It was that of a Syrian man who had arrived on European shores on October 3. It turned out to be a fake. This is just one example of thousands of fraudulent passports in circulation today.

It never occurred to Steve Puget NOT to use Facebook to help. And he was totally unsurprised when it worked.

The Entergy Corporation recently announced it would soon close two aging nuclear power plants in the northeast US. At the same time, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has granted the company a new license to operate a Tennessee reactor that some experts consider one of the least safe in the nation. What does this portend for nuclear energy in the US?

When the Nuclear Regulatory Commission found Entergy Corporation’s Pilgrim Generating Station to be one of the three most dangerous nuclear power plants in the US, it was no surprise to some local residents. It has been the focus of protests for much of its 43-year history. Now Entergy plans to close the facility within a few years — but that hasn’t ended the controversy.

Calls by the US House of Representatives and at least 29 of the nation’s governors to enact a stricter vetting process for Syrian refugees is winning wide-approval from the American public, according to a new Bloomberg poll.

The Molenbeek neighborhood of Brussels resents the terror label it's been stuck with since the Paris attacks. But some hope their neighbors will do more to thwart the next attack.

One week after 19 people were gunned down at one of their neighborhood cafés, Isabelle Repiton and her 24-year-old daughter Morgane Bloncourt have different answers to the question: what now?

The attacks in Paris and elsewhere recently raise questions about how security forces should respond to mass-hostage situations. And how quickly.

A week after the attacks in Paris, there’s another hostage crisis. The one today happened in Bamako, the capital of Mali in West Africa.

The Bataclan is much more than just a rock venue, it's how you know you made it as a band, says former music manager Andrew Morgan.

Photojournalist Shane Thomas McMillan was in his friend's apartment in Paris last Friday, right across the street from the Bataclan concert hall, where gunmen killed 89 people and injured about 200 others. A week later, he looks back at that experience.

China's taken a lot of flak for its smog and climate-changing emissions. But change is underway. China's reducing its reliance on coal, increasing energy efficiency and looking more to renewables. With glaciers melting and climate change advancing, could China's turnaround make a difference?

Twenty-seven years ago, Tracy Chapman’s debut album launched her career as a popular singer songwriter. She has since released eight top-selling albums and maintained a world-wide following. Now, she’s releasing an album of her greatest hits. It’s intended to be a crowd-pleaser, she says.

Here's why the parent-child discussion about religious extremism can be so difficult.

Since the Paris terrorist attacks, France’s far-right Front National Party is expecting a big surge in support. And the party’s youth wing thinks they could be the future.

Nasser Weddady spends his days countering the ideology of what he calls "radical jihadi islamism." He's used to the cycle of terrorist atrocities and post-attack rhetoric. But Paris really got to him. It brought home how complicated it all is, and how frustrated he is that we have learned all kinds of lessons since 9/11 that we fail to apply.

The US has a long track record on helping refugees. Americans should not forget that legacy when it comes to helping people who've fled from Syria, says one evangelical Christian leader.

George Nakashima is considered one of the greatest American craftsmen of all time. You can find his furniture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. But in 1942, the US government thought he was a threat, along with his wife and their newborn daughter.

After the recent attacks in Paris governors of a series of states in the US are putting a halt to the resettlement of Syrian refugees in their states. One Syrian family that was supposed to arrive in Indiana this week has been diverted to Connecticut.

Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts is renowned as the final resting place for American luminaries, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Fannie Farmer, and Charles Sumner. As America’s first garden cemetery, it’s also briefly home for migrating birds every spring and fall. A new book, "Dead in Good Company,” celebrates both the stories of the famous deceased and the wildlife that draws nature lovers to the cemetery.

In the wake of the attacks on Paris, US police departments are evaluating and reconsidering how they deal with terrorism.

In Vermont, white nose syndrome is endangering the lives of bats. But landowners are being called on — and given training how — to help save the ones that are left.

Four million Syrians have fled their country since 2011. The number of Syrian refugees the US has taken in since then: only about 2,000. How does the US vet Syrian refugees vetted? It's complicated.

A Syrian activist with the opposition group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently speaks out.

The Molenbeek neighborhood of Brussels is just across a canal from the city center but a world apart. A number of terrorism suspects have ties to the place, including several associated with the atrocities in Paris. Today, the community held a peace vigil to tell the world that not everyone there is a terrorist. To the contrary.

Anonymous recently declared war on ISIS, even though they've technically been at war since the attacks on the offices of Charlie Hebdo last year. So, what does that 'war' mean, exactly?

"They are not Muslims." It’s an oft-repeated phrase after terrorist attacks like the ones in Paris. But how are people who cherish Islam condemning these extremists from a religious perspective?

During World War II, there was a huge fear that Nazi spies would sneak into the US with Jewish refugees. That fear was overblown. But it looks like the US is experiencing the same paranoia over Syrians.

One sign that life is returning to normal in Paris was the re-opening of the Aligre farmers' market in Paris, a place with a distinctly North African flavor.

Paris is a city still on edge. People aren't sure what comes next. Wednesday morning — before Parisians had even woken up — a new disturbing chapter to this story: Police raided an apartment in the Paris suburb of Saint Denis looking for the suspected mastermind behind Friday's attacks. After a seven-hour standoff, two of the apartment's occupants were dead. One of them a woman who blew herself up. Seven people were arrested during the operation. But in the end the fate of the alleged mastermind remains unknown.

He's survived being shot at by police in his home country and now fears that life for him in the US will become more difficult following the Paris attacks.

In the attacks in Paris and — in particular — the Bataclan music hall - Russians see echoes of another tragedy: the Nord Ost theater siege of 2002.

Community colleges are key to growing our economy and expanding opportunity, but less than 1 in 5 students at community colleges today will earn a bachelor’s degree. One community college in South Dakota is bucking the trend.