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Updated 2025-09-16 23:02
Taiwan's indigenous people finally get an official apology
For the first time, Taiwan’s government has apologized to its indigenous people for centuries of mistreatment.
Check out this cumbia response to the word ‘feminazi’
One line goes, “You almost got it right there, when you called me a feminazi, but you missed a little detail, the one walking down the streets with fear is I.”
The Great Bear Rainforest is a model for how to save trees
Canada's "War in the Woods" ends with a land agreement that could save forests around the world.
The search for Syria's secret library
When a place has been besieged for years and hunger stalks the streets, you might have thought people would have little interest in books. But enthusiasts have stocked an underground library in Syria with volumes rescued from bombed buildings — and users dodge shells and bullets to reach it.
Live insects ‘swarmed’ a London burger chain
Activists released thousands of live cockroaches, among other live insects, in protest against immigrant workers being detained and deported.
Veterans can speak out politically, but one Marine vet says they should expect repercussions
Active duty service members are expected to remain apolitical, but the rules for vets are much more limited — if there are any at all.
How a tomato shortage has Nigerians questioning their reliance on oil
Tomatoes are a prized staple in Nigeria, but there's a severe shortage and prices are soaring. At first, many people has conspiracy theories about what caused the shortage.
Why the US military is supposed to stay out of politics
US military personnel are supposed to stay out of politics. But why is that? It's not the case elsewhere in the world. A look at the roots of the civil-military relationship.
A policy expert explains how anti-intellectualism gave rise to Donald Trump
Republican leaders have been concealing their intelligence for decades — but it was always more of an act. For Donald Trump, the act is reality, argues foreign policy expert Max Boot.
Going hungry in Venezuela
It's one thing to talk to people you've never met before who are suffering from hunger, and it's a completely different thing when they are from your own family, as the BBC's Vladimir Hernandez discovered when he returned to his native Venezuela to report on its failure to get food on people's tables.
Scientists are using sound to track nighttime bird migration
Birders have a bunch of tricks to help identify different birds — color, size, how the bird flies, where they see it, and, of course, its song. Now imagine trying to identifying birds in flight high in the sky in the middle of the night where you can't see them. How would you do that?
A Chicago surgeon recounts a nightmarish journey through Aleppo
Working in the besieged Syrian city tests the resolve of even the most daring doctors.
A Muslim Marine reacts to Khizr Khan's speech
Tayyib Rashid is a proud Muslim American who served in the Marine Corps for five years.
Questions arise over Trump and his advisers' ties to Putin and Ukraine
Republican candidate Donald Trump appeared confused about recent events in Ukraine in an interview Sunday with ABC. But Trump did affirm his desire for a good relationship with Russia, and that he was planning to look into the idea of recognizing Russia's annexation of Crimea.
One of the top 'Nigerian prince' email scammers has been caught
Scam emails in Nigeria are nothing new, but this con artist made $60 million off his fraudulent letters before getting arrested.
A vegan take on a classic Brazilian stew — without the pig snouts
Brazilians love their feijoada, but if you're not a big pork eater it can be a pretty gnarly mix, with anything from pigs' faces to feet and even tails. Here's a way to taste the classic stew while visiting Rio, meat not included.
This punk band uses English to get across — to some — their feminist message
PreMenstrual Syndrome says English makes it easier to push the envelope in socially conservative Albania. But is the message lost in the process?
The Brazilian music you should be listening to during the 2016 Olympics
The countdown to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio has begun.
A place where the stars are so bright you can see your shadow by starlight
A remote campground in southwest New Mexico has recently become the world's second dark sky sanctuary for star gazers. The rapid spread of light pollution prevents more than half of the world's population from seeing the Milky Way.
Here are all your burning questions about recycling, answered
Can you recycle your pizza boxes? Where do all those used plastics go? These and other recycling mysteries, explained.
What does racism do to your health?
These scientists are trying to figure out what the health costs of racism are.
Chris Gethard and the oxymoron of depressed comedians
Laughing and crying: comedian Chris Gethard takes on depression in his shows
The real science in the new Ghostbusters
If ghosts were real, how would we scientifically describe them?
How math can help us understand terrorist networks
These researchers are tracking and predicting online terrorist networks using mathematical models.
Congress approves rules for GMO labeling, but not everyone is happy
Congress just passed legislation to create a national GMO labeling standard. If signed into law, it would override more stringent measures that went into effect in Vermont on July 1. Neither the food industry nor advocacy groups that oppose GMOs are pleased with the result.
Interior Department steps in to alter coal leasing on public land
Six months ago, the Obama administration put a moratorium on new coal leases on public lands. During this planned three-year pause, the Department of the Interior is reviewing its management of taxpayer-owned coal, including its impact on global warming.
This is your brain on laughter
The brain behaves differently when you're laughing. Just how differently? Find out.
Women from female-led countries react to Hillary Clinton’s nomination
It's a big deal that Clinton has received the nomination. But it's also about time.
Hillary Clinton’s other glass ceiling
If elected, Hillary Clinton would be the first former secretary of state to become president since before the Civil War.
World soccer power AC Roma is in the US and you probably didn't even know it
The team's star-studded roster includes players like Stephan El Shaarawy, Francesco Totti, Daniele De Rossi, Radja Nainggolan and Edin Dzeko — all celebrities in the soccer world.
The unoffical merch at the conventions told a really different story than the speeches did
"Life's a bitch. Don't vote for one" is *probably* not a slogan approved by the Trump campaign.
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'When blacks register, progressive whites win': Jesse Jackson declares support for Clinton
Rev. Jesse Jackson has urged Democrats and black voters to unite behind Hillary Clinton, in spite of his long association with Bernie Sanders.
Hillary Clinton wasn't the only one to break barriers at the Democratic National Convention
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are the fastest growing segment of the US population. And they didn't go unnoticed this week.
Surrounded, hungry and afraid, many in Aleppo, Syria still refuse to leave
Eastern Aleppo could turn into "the largest humanitarian tragedy" of the Syrian conflict, the European Union said.
Clinton's first speech: In just-released 1969 audio, she reveals 'blueprint for her future'
At age 21, Hillary Rodham became the first student to speak at a Wellesley College commencement. The college just released the full audio.
Hillary Clinton’s stand on NAFTA and the TPP: It’s complicated, and evolving
Hillary Clinton has held various political roles, from first lady, to senator, to secretary of state, to presidential candidate. And her positions on trade have shifted along the way.
Gitmo will almost certainly still be open after Obama leaves office
Guantánamo Bay hasn’t really been a topic at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. But the trials being held there against five accused terrorists continue.
Meet the last native speakers of Hawaiian
Hawaiian is often offered up as a language revitalization success story, a model for other endangered languages to follow. But language revitalization isn’t so simple. While activists are reviving the Hawaiian language, opening up pre-schools, teaching thousands of second language learners, there still is a small group of native speakers who have never lost the language, a group of native Hawaiians from the island of Niihau.
An uneasy history of US-China conspiracy theories
Conspiracy theories can appeal to the cynical, the distrustful and the anxious. They've been woven through the past century of China-US relations, on both sides, more often at some times than others. Here's a look at one of them, that starts with a young American missionary turned military intelligence operative, and the myth and reality behind why a staunch anti-Communist group decided to make him their patron saint, with Terry Lautz, author of "John Birch: A Life."
Identity-based politics are making the US electorate 'hyper-partisan'
"We are in a moment now where partisans no longer stop at disagreeing with each others' ideas. Increasingly, they deny each other’s facts, they disapprove of each other’s lifestyles, they stay out of each other’s neighborhoods."
How will Germany deal with lone wolf terrorism, the invisible enemy?
After a string of violent attacks last week, Germany is now faces a new global problem: lone wolf terrorism. But the German response to the horrifying attacks is unique.
Yes, Bill Clinton, I am a Muslim who loves America and freedom. But why is 'terror' part of this conversation?
I listened to Bill Clinton's speech on Tuesday. I was particularly shaken by the former president's words about black people and Muslims.
What does the former US ambassador to Russia think of Trump's hacking request?
Donald Trump held a news conference in Miami in which he called on Russia to find Hillary Clinton's missing emails. So what does the former US ambassador to Russia think of Trump's comments?
Bill Clinton says Hillary can make any world problem better in 30 days. Really? What about Syria?
Could President Hillary Clinton erase ISIS or dump Assad in a month? It would be pretty to think so, but one Syria expert has his doubts.
ISIS is losing its so-called state, so it's shifting its message
The leaders of ISIS beckoned young Muslims to come join their "caliphate" and be part of Islamic history. Now that the group’s so-called state is being taken away, ISIS propaganda has shifted.
‘Bernie or Bust’ is a risk many Americans with undocumented relatives can’t take
But others don't think a President Trump would be any worse for undocumented people in the United States than "deporter-in-chief" Obama has been.
After terror attacks, push for better, more centralized intelligence agencies in Europe
The push to improve intelligence agencies has generally followed three lines of thought: 1) Better centralize intelligence gathering 2)Increasing the sharing of information and 2) Upgrading the state’s ability to conduct surveillance and wiretapping.
Could a President Clinton create a 'critical mass' of female world leaders?
If elected in November, Clinton would join German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister Theresa May at the helm of some of the world's largest economies.
Newcastle's biggest university says no to more coal
Newcastle University pledged to divest from "non-progressive" energy companies, minimizing its investment in fossil fuels. The fossil fuel divestment campaign has claimed the announcement as another win in a series of similar announcements over the past year.
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