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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.

A celebrated ISIS executioner and an ISIS leader in Libya were both reported killed in targeted airstrikes recently. So what role can drones play in defeating ISIS?

Climate change will make natural disasters more common — and that means more deadly confrontations between humans and weather. We might all be called on to help.

After Deah Barakat was shot to death in Chapel Hill, his friends and family made his dream of a dental clinic for Syrian refugees happen.

Many people call the jihadist group claiming responsibility for the Paris and Beirut attacks, ISIS. Alternatively they've been called ISIL and even the Islamic State. But many in the Arab speaking world, and increasingly Western leader,s have taken to calling the group Daesh. So what does Daesh mean?

Generally speaking, it's hard to buy guns in Europe. But there is an exception: It's easy to buy cheap Kalashnikovs in Europe. Blame the Balkans.

Fifteen Syrian migrant families, including 50 children, are heading to Scotland. Not the mainland. Instead these asylum seekers will be taking a ferry to the Scottish island of Bute.

France native and journalist Adeline Sire walked around Paris on Monday to find bloodstained doorways and makeshift memorials and fellow French citizens in pain.

Three days after the harrowing attacks in Paris, the city is ready to get back to normal. But one Parisian says, beneath the surface, people are still anxious about what could come next.

As the opiate crisis advances, many people who thought their child-rearing years were done are finding themselves stepping in to take care of young relatives.

The saiga, antelopes that have migrated across the Central Asian steppe since the days of the woolly mammoth, are suddenly dying by the hundreds of thousands. Some researchers suspect that bacteria reacting to the effects of climate change may be to blame for this catastrophic event.

In cartoons and emblazoned on public monuments, the French Tricolour has emerged as the favored symbol to show solidarity with Paris after Friday's attacks. Arab and Muslim cartoonists are drawing something different: the personal impact of terrorism.

The terrorist attacks on Paris are resonating with people around the world. Similar deadly bomb attacks in Beirut don't seem to have prompted the same kind of reaction.

If it turns out that ISIS was behind the attacks in Paris, it marks a first for the extremist group that was born out of chaos in Iraq and Syria. Author J.M. Berger says the group is pursuing a policy of steady escalation.

Getting sent to the US as a refugee is a long process, and it's become an especially slow one for Syrian refugees.

Few were surprised that this Brussels neighborhood had a link to violence. It is portrayed as a jihadist breeding ground and a no-go area for police.

On the Greek island of Lesbos, thousands of migrants come ashore everyday. The Paris attacks won't stop them from fleeing Syria. But they might tighten immigration policies.

In the neighborhood where the attacks took place, one minute stretched into two, four, six. It was as if no one wanted this moment to end.

“France is becoming a soft target in Europe,” says Samuel Laurent, author of "Al-Qaeda in France" and "The Islamic State.”