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Volunteers with Asian Americans Advancing Justice, an Los Angeles-based non-profit, work the phones to get Asian-American voters to the polls in California. The phone bank is part of the "Your Vote Matters" campaign, an effort to get 30,000 infrequent vot
Global Politics
Getting Asian immigrants in the US to vote means breaking the language barrier
Designer Oscar de la Renta addresses the audience next to singer Juan Luis Guerra during a presentation of his collection in Mexico City in 2011.
Culture
Dominican designers were inspired by native son Oscar de la Renta
Emerald ash borer tunnels scar an infested ash tree near the Merrimack River in New Hampshire. The invasive borers have killed millions of ash trees in North America over the last decade. Now researchers are releasing a small parasitic wasp in a last ditc
Environment
The invasive emerald ash borer has killed millions of trees, but researchers hope a wasp can save some of the survivors
Flight Lt. Caroline Paige is the first openly transgender officer to serve in the Royal Air Force. She says once fellow officers saw she could do the job, her identity was no longer an issue.
Lifestyle
The RAF’s first openly transgender officer says competence trumps prejudice with her fellow soldiers
Jordan Matson's profile picture on Facebook
Conflict
A veteran from Wisconsin explains why he joined the fight against ISIS
Olympic and Paralympic running star Oscar Pistorius stands during court proceedings at the Pretoria Magistrates court.
Justice
In a historic moment, Oscar Pistorius’ five-year sentence is handed down by a black female judge
Music Heard on Air
Music heard on the air for October 21, 2014
African immigrants walk among rows of prefabricated container houses, which have replaced scores of tents, at the open centre for immigrants formerly known as "Tent City" in Hal Far, outside Valletta March 27, 2014. In 2013
Development
Refugee camps are surprising hot spots of innovation
The view across the Kawar Gosk refugee camp for Syrian refugees in Northern Iraq.
Conflict
Refugees who have escaped ISIS will soon have to battle winter weather
A worker from a private company fumigates a property for mosquitoes in Port-au-Prince, May 23, 2014. The painful mosquito-borne virus called Chikungunya is spreading quickly through the Caribbean, causing alarm in Haiti and the neighboring Dominican Repub
Health
Jamaica declares a state of emergency to try to stop the spread of painful chikungunya virus
Natasha, a paramedic in Haiti's first-ever ambulance serivce, gives cholera patient an IV drip in her ambulance.
Medicine
Emergency medical care is a rare but fragile sign of progress in Haiti
People carry photographs of missing students during a march in Acapulco on October 17, 2014. On September 26, police allegedly linked to a criminal gang shot dead at least three students and abducted dozens of others during clashes in the southwestern cit
Conflict
‘If they are going to kill us, let them kill us for a just cause,’ say Mexican citizens