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An invite to the State of the Union address boosted the spirits of this Syrian activist.
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| Updated | 2026-07-31 19:01 |
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In 2014, the US sent a dummy Hellfire missile to Europe to be used in training. But once the training was over, instead of the missile being shipped back, somehow it wound up in Cuba.
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Larycia Hawkins is a political science professor at Wheaton College in Illinois who wanted to show her support for Muslims on Facebook. Now, she might loose her job.
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It's been a big year for US Soccer star Carli Lloyd. First she helped the US Women's National Team win the Women's World Cup this past summer. Then Monday night, she was awarded one of soccer's biggest honors: 2015 FIFA Woman Player of the Year.
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An alleged ISIS suicide bombing has killed 10 people in Istanbul, with more injured. The target appears to have been foreign tourists: most of the victims were German visitors, and the blast took place in the Sultanahmet area, a major tourist attraction.
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VW head Matthias Mueller is expected to propose a fix Wednesday to a fleet of diesel cars that have been cheating emissions tests.
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More than three decades after the worldwide communications network was born, David Clark and Yochai Benkler say they’re deeply concerned that the Internet is headed in a dangerous direction that its founders never intended.
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It's six years since a massive earthquake devastated Haiti. Americans poured out their hearts to help. But it seems that after the clean-up and rescue mission, much of the development assistance has been wasted.
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Many Haitian migrants fled the Dominican Republic under threat of violence. But some continue to commute back across the border because they can't make a living in Haiti.
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Only 3 percent of students at top colleges come from the lowest 25 percent of incomes — and that's largely because of schools' admissions processes. In comparison, 72 percent of the students come from the top 25 percent.
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David Bowie might sing the song, "Fashion," but it's Japanese designer Kansai Yamamoto who influenced David Bowie's fashion sense.
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Mexico has agreed to extradite notorious drug kingpin Joaquin Guzman, also known as El Chapo, to the US. Guzman was captured, for a third time, on Friday. Mexican officials have said contacts between actor Sean Penn and the notorious drug lord helped in the recapture. But Penn's interview and article in Rolling Stone have infuriated Mexican journalists.
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Maziar Bahari was a teenager in Iran when he first learned about David Bowie. He was hooked as soon as he heard "Five Years" for the first time. But being a fan of Bowie in there had its challenges.
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US customs agents are looking for illegal food at US ports of entry. Every day, in one terminal alone at New York's JFK Airport, more than 400 pounds of illegal food is seized and crushed.
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When English is not spoken at home, and parents have not even been to college themselves, their children can get lost in the college application process.
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A museum in Amsterdam has begun changing the names of its paintings to avoid offensive words like “negro†and “dwarf.â€
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Callie Crossley asks whether the cases of Tamir Rice and Ethan Couch answer the debate about the power of fate versus free will.
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“Findings†author Rafil Kroll-Zaidi combs the journals for science’s most fascinating — and flummoxing — facts. Now he has combined the best of the best into one illustrated book
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Scientists are studying the jerboa, which has been described as “fuzzy rodent t-rex,†to learn about the evolution of our own bones.
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Saudi Arabia has spent the past year taking actions that have alarmed and angered some of its neighbors, especially Iran. There have been warnings this could provoke a war. So who's driving these policies, and why?
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South Korea began blasting K-Pop music, and anti-Pyongyang propaganda out of loudspeakers along its border with North Korea. Loudly.
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Residents of Madaya in Syria have been under siege since July. The last time food entered the town was back in October. Now horrific images of children suffering from acute malnutrition have left the world in shock.
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Emoji is a Japanese term for the cute little symbols you can text and tweet from your phone and PC. There are emojis for pizza and taco and apple but recently writer Jennifer 8 Lee discovered that there is no official dumpling emoji. Dumplings are one of the world's most ubiquitious foods, why no dumpling emoji? She decided to change that. The World in Words podcast talks Lee about her quest to create the dumpling emoji and writing a proposal to the mysterious Unicode Consortium, the entity that encodes emoji and makes them "official."
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In World War II, London was a dangerous place. That's why the government launched a plan build a huge network of subterranean air raid shelters far below ground, each with the capacity to hold thousands of people.
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Forget the image of the newspaper delivery boy of old — these days it's more likely to be an adult driver throwing the paper on to your porch. It's part-time work so it's good for people who need more than one job to get by, and immigrants often fit the bill.
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A Paris neighborhood remembers the cop who was killed the day of the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
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The US military is getting ready to accept transgender servicemen and women, but the military's policies haven't caught up.
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Despite violent crimes, any changes to US gun laws remains stubbornly out of reach. But what if people saw the damage wrought with these guns?
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Immigration agents have been knocking on doors in Texas, Georgia and South Carolina. Many deported parents don't have time to even say good-bye — which has led them to prepare in advance should that come to pass.
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The ashes of World War II veteran aircraft pilot Elaine Harmon belong in Arlington National Cemetery, according to her family and supporters. Harmon was a WASP, a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots. The Army says there's no space for them in the national cemetery.
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The diverse French island of La Réunion watched the Charlie Hebdo attacks from more than 5,000 miles away. A year later, a reporter who was working there explains what it was like to watch that horror surrounded by that community.
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"To see the bodies of these little angels." The former attorney general speaks of gun control to the financial crisis.
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The markets in China are tanking and the pain spread quickly to other parts of the global economy. But the bigger worry is what happens with the Chinese currency.
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Two prisoners who were held at the Guantanamo Bay prison have been sent to Ghana. It's part of a deal that the United States government made with Ghana. They will be in Ghana for two years before they can decide to either remain there or move onto another country.
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North Korean officials declared this week that they'd detonated a hydrogen bomb — to the consternation of their only ally, and patron, China.
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It's been one year since two masked gunmen opened fire in the offices of Charlie Hebdo. Francoise Mouly of The New Yorker still recalls how she felt after hearing that cartoonists had been murdered for simply drawing a picture.
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Her parents hoped she'd be an economist. And in a way, that's what Muthoni the Drummer Queen became. Just in the music world...
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After testing discovered high levels of lead in the Flint, Michigan, public water supply, the Michigan declared a state of emergency.
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Author and journalist Wajahat Ali ponders what if the armed group occupying a wildlife reserve in Oregon were Muslims.
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Experts are scrambling to find out exactly what kind of bomb went off in North Korea on Wednesday. The detective work could take days or weeks as seismic waves are more closely analyzed and US and Japanese sniffer planes try to test atomic plume particles.
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The Library of Congress tapped Gene Luen Yang to be the the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. Yang is the very first graphic novelist to be named to the post. Here are five of his favorite books.
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North Korea claims to have tested a hydrogen bomb. There was definitely an atomic test. But there are serious doubts as to whether it was an H-Bomb. Nevertheless, the world is condemning the test as a deliberate provocation.
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A sociologist, a public health director and a Hollywood actress are all asking the same question but finding their own way to define their immigrant identity.
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French conductor Pierre Boulez was known for being an avant-garde composer, while Frank Zappa was firmly ensconced in the avant-garde world of rock. Together they recorded an album, "Boulez conducts Zappa." We'll hear how their collaboration maybe wasn't so unlikely.
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Journalists love to ask why, and authoritarian governments don't much like to be questioned. So how to teach China's future journalists to do good work despite the censors and other pressures? Former CBS veteran Peter Herford talks about his decade teaching his craft to China's next generation of journalists. A Whose Century Is It bonus episode, to accompany Episode 9: And That's the Way it Was, about the past and future of journalism from a guy who's spent the better part of a century in it.
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Gisela Mota was murdered only hours after she was sworn into office as the new mayor of Temixco city in southern Mexico. She's one of about 70 mayors who have been killed in the past decade in Mexico.
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Dual citizens from Iraq, Iran, Syria and Sudan are hit by the new US program that restricts their travel. But Pakistanis say they're victims of a visa clampdown as well.
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Artist Ellie Harrison recently received $22,000 to live in the Scottish city of Glasgow for a year, and local Glaswegians have a few issues with that.
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The self-appointed militiamen who’ve taken over buildings at a federal wildlife sanctuary in Oregon say they’re not backing down. Israel is also dealing with an armed movement of zealots challenging their government’s authority.
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