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PreMenstrual Syndrome says English makes it easier to push the envelope in socially conservative Albania. But is the message lost in the process?

The countdown to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio has begun.

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.

Can you recycle your pizza boxes? Where do all those used plastics go? These and other recycling mysteries, explained.

These scientists are trying to figure out what the health costs of racism are.

Laughing and crying: comedian Chris Gethard takes on depression in his shows

If ghosts were real, how would we scientifically describe them?

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.

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.

The brain behaves differently when you're laughing. Just how differently? Find out.

It's a big deal that Clinton has received the nomination. But it's also about time.

If elected, Hillary Clinton would be the first former secretary of state to become president since before the Civil War.

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.

"Life's a bitch. Don't vote for one" is *probably* not a slogan approved by the Trump campaign.

Rev. Jesse Jackson has urged Democrats and black voters to unite behind Hillary Clinton, in spite of his long association with Bernie Sanders.

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are the fastest growing segment of the US population. And they didn't go unnoticed this week.

Eastern Aleppo could turn into "the largest humanitarian tragedy" of the Syrian conflict, the European Union said.

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 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.

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.

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.

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."

"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."

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.

I listened to Bill Clinton's speech on Tuesday. I was particularly shaken by the former president's words about black people and Muslims.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

When British voters grew tired of the two-party system, they found an alternative. But for many it didn't work out how they planned.

Today in Lagos, this Nigerian's Twitter feed is full of tweets about America's first lady.

ISIS and its online affiliates like to post "kill lists." Most experts think they're just a form of propaganda, a way to stoke fear among ordinary people. One list posted recently included more than 100 government workers in Massachusetts.

At the Democratic National Convention, many in the crowd have chanted "No TPP!" That's no to the 12-member Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trading bloc that President Barack Obama supports, but Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton all oppose, at least on some level.

When Michelle Obama addressed the opening night of the Democratic convention, she darn near brought down the house. But politics don't come naturally to the first lady.

A veteran Russia watcher says computer hacks are just one of the many ways Moscow disrupts and influences foreign elections. Watch out, she says, for the Russian insiders around Donald Trump.

Ukraine's former president Victor Yanukovych spent more that $30 million on his personal estate before he fled for Russia. Think private zoo, crocodile skin-lined planters and a copy of John and Yoko's white piano.

In their book, "Paradise Lot," gardeners Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates tell personal stories of creating a food forest of perennial plants and finding romance in the process.

People in France are protesting the death of a young black man in police custody. As they channel the US Black Lives Matter movement, they're also challenging France's "colorblind" norms.

Kabul was struck by ISIS for the first time over the weekend. At least 80 people were killed. But you might not have heard.

Her name is Elena, and she hails from Avalor — a fictional place that draws from several real-world cultures.

A shadowy group calling itself Guccifer 2.0 has claimed responsibility for the DNC email hacks. However, the hackers also show a fondness for Russian emoticons.

Few places know the consequences of hate and demagoguery more than the former Yugoslav republics. Ethnic nationalism — which played a major role in the bloody disintegration of Yugoslavia — is leading America astray, says Bosnian writer Aleksandar Hemon.

Thousands of species pollinate our plants and guarantee our food, but one particular bee specializes in the squash family. As ancestral farmers spread the cultivation of squashes through the Americas, the squash bee followed.

Did you know there is a historic preserve on the moon?

Pacific Gas & Electric has decided to take the aging Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, near an earthquake fault in California, offline within 10 years and replace it with wind and solar power. But an even older reactor, Indian Point, near New York City, will continue to operate, despite defects and opposition.