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Leeann Chin had to teach herself how to cook. Her mother-in-law was quite critical. She always complained. So, Chin dove in, and in the process, found cooking to be an escape.

“There was nobody on that team who felt like Washington had made the right decision."

In the absence of a human population, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has become a de facto nature reserve.

These engineers have figured out how to store digital information on DNA. And that’s big news.

Director Laszlo Nemes needed a Yiddish speaker to translate the dialogue and train the actors who would be reenacting the Auschwitz death camp in the film "Son of Saul." Ironically, that man spends most of his days preserving everything about Yiddish that isn’t about the Holocaust.

These new devices promise to automate menial gardening tasks.

The guys who brought you heavy-metal opera "Dog Days" just made an opera about the night before JFK's assassination

Tilda Swinton started out wanting to be a writer. Here's how she ended up becoming an actress.

The science is inconclusive, but juries recently decided against Johnson & Johnson in two cases where plaintiffs claimed their ovarian cancer was caused by long-term genital use of baby powder.

More than 90 percent of the coral in the Great Barrier Reef has been bleached by warming temperatures. Is there any future for the coral in our oceans?

Luis Jorge Rivera Herrera grew up surfing a wild stretch of Puerto Rican coast called the Northeast Ecological Corridor. Years later, when he learned of plans to build two massive resorts in the area known for its biodiversity and as an important nesting site for endangered leatherback turtles, he rallied opposition to the project.

"It’s like I’ve lost 130 friends.”

The African Union is about to admit its first non-African member.

Hezbollah’s most senior military official is dead. A lawmaker is blaming a usual target: Israel.

"They use a lot of emojis," says reporter Sheera Frenkel.

If you want to flee a potential Trump presidency, you could sign up for Maple Match. It's a dating site targeting Americans who want to meet Canadians.

Thousands of people have been protesting in France this week, as the government tries to pass a law making it easier for struggling businesses to fire their staff.

Want to visit a place with clean air? Really clean air? Maybe the cleanest of any urban area in the world? We check out a place north of the Arctic Circle that gets an A+ in the newly updated WHO Global Urban Ambient Pollution Database.

If you're fighting for human rights in the Arab and Muslim world, where do you go for a confidence boost? A Sudanese political cartoonist chose a road trip across America to visit civil rights landmarks.

Some 70 percent of households in India don’t have access to toilets. And the consequences for women are huge.

Nevada has the worst-performing schools in the United States. One solution: A new law that would provide taxpayer money for kids to attend private schools. Opponents argue that the law discriminates against low-income people, including immigrants.

The Mexican capital worked hard to shed its image as one of the world's most polluted cities. Are those efforts now backsliding?

A new Twitter hashtag is reigniting America's conversation about race in Hollywood.

It's an effort to encourage people to support more local musicians.

The lower house of the Italian parliament has given the green light for civil unions for gay couples. One of those who is especially proud is Vladimir Luxuria, an Italian transgender politician.

The Eurovision competition isn't supposed to be about politics. But it often creeps in. And this year's entry from Ukraine, about the Soviet deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944, has Russia crying foul.

The uniform building code was implemented in the 1920s as a way to unify building standards, but it also enshrined in law that restrooms must be segregated by binary gender — a policy that underlies the recent controversy over transgender people and public restrooms.

Canadian Mubin Shaikh says his upbringing in Toronto was pretty typical. But at age 18 he had an identity crisis.

Five members of an Egyptian group whose satirical videos have mocked President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi have been arrested. Last week, they posted a video online that criticized the crackdown on anti-Sisi demonstrations and journalists.

Latin America has long been overwhelmingly Catholic. But a group of former Christians in Colombia who’ve converted to Orthodox Judaism is part of something larger.

President Obama is being sued by a 28-year-old army captain, Nathan Michael Smith. The officer is deployed in the fight against ISIS. While he says the war is just, Smith and his lawyers argue the war lacks proper legal and constitutional authority.

Some people call the formation of The Silk Road Ensemble the "Manhattan Project of music."

In Israel, Memorial Day means public gatherings where people sing together to remember those they have lost.

Duterte’s ascent to the presidency was driven by a constant refrain: Elect me and I will hunt down and kill criminals en masse. Courts be damned. Screw human rights.

Rodrigo Duterte is set to be the next leader of the Philippines, and has promised: “I will be a dictator, no doubt about it. But only against the forces of evil.”

Is this the most secure password ever created? A new technology uses a brain scan to protect access to personal data.

Violence against women is an important predictor of extremism among terrorist groups. But violence against women is by no means an exclusively "over there" problem. And that's the point of a new TV show.

France is a nation of immigrants, but it has an uneasy relationship with its newcomers, even those from its former colonies. A Paris museum aims to change that.

It's not a big deal to be called a socialist this election. But what about a communist? One longtime member of the Communist Party USA looks back.

Minneapolis friends stand trial for charges that include conspiracy to provide support to ISIS and commit murder abroad.

Who could quibble with the US giving malnourished Haitian schoolchildren a shipment of US peanuts? There's history here, and a reason for suspicion.

The impeachment process seemed like it was suddenly off — until it was back on. President Dilma Rousseff may be suspended from office by the end of the week.

Red Squirrels in the UK are dying from leprosy. New research is trying to understand how to change that.

On busy nights, lighting strikes there thousands of times per hour.

The Canadian dish — french fries topped with gravy, cheese curds and gravy — has become one of the latest food fads Las Vegas.

It's usually quite a celebratory moment when the torch arrives, and of course it is in Brazil, too. But the country also has plenty of other big concerns, like serious government, economic and health crises keeping Brazilians occupied.

Energy prices have dropped dramatically. That's cut deeply into the profits of pirates who used to make quick cash commandeering oil tankers.

The UN Security Council has unanimously passed a resolution reminding its members that deliberate attacks on medical facilities are war crimes. The resolution comes after a spate of such attacks in Syria and elsewhere. The Council heard an impassioned plea from Joanne Liu, the president of Doctors Without Borders.

It's not just the UK's Labour Party, British Jews say there's long been a problem with anti-Semitism on the political left in Britain.