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Turkey's military has staged several coups over the years but this time, despite its might, it failed.
Culture
President Erdogan’s attempts to silence Turkish satirists: not working
Hillary Clinton Secretary of State
Global Politics
Hillary Clinton’s other glass ceiling
Two fans sporting De Rossi and Totti jerseys watch A.C. Roma train in Boston, Massachusetts July 28, 2016.
Sports
World soccer power AS Roma is in the US and you probably didn’t even know it
Astronomer Al Grauer and his wife Annie were instrumental in getting a dark sky sanctuary designation for the Cosmic Campground in New Mexico. The recognition came from the International Dark Sky Association.
Science
A place where the stars are so bright you can see your shadow by starlight
In a market in Abuja, a vendor named Abba shows me a puny tomato that was selling for 10 times the usual price. Some Nigerians have been calling tomatoes “Buhari’s gold,” after the president.
Development
How a tomato shortage has Nigerians questioning their reliance on oil
A cleaner poses in the rings at the Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil August 1, 2016.
Music
The Brazilian music you should be listening to during the 2016 Olympics
Delegates watch the Democratic Women of the Senate address at the DNC in Philadelphia.
Election 2016
Here’s a comparison of the diversity of speakers at the RNC and DNC
Man in front of crowd holds hand to heart, with woman standing next to him
Global Politics
Hillary Clinton wasn’t the only one to break barriers at the Democratic National Convention
Rev. Jesse Jackson this week endorsed Hillary Clinton at the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia
Election 2016
‘When blacks register, progressive whites win’: Jesse Jackson declares support for Clinton
A delegate holds a Hillary Clinton poster at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. U.S. July 28, 2016.
Election 2016
How would a President Hillary Clinton handle _____?
A soldier stands guard in a tower overlooking Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay naval base in a December 31, 2009 file photo provided by the US Navy.
Global Politics
Gitmo will almost certainly still be open after Obama leaves office
Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the North America's Building Trades Unions 2016 Legislative Conference in Washington, U.S., April 19, 201616.
Economics
Hillary Clinton’s stand on NAFTA and the TPP: It’s complicated, and evolving
Somali policemen and miltary gather near the scene of a suicide bombing near the African Union's main peacekeeping base in Mogadishu, Somalia, July 26, 2016.
Conflict
When a suicide bomber destroyed my home
Health centers in New York are providing information about the Zika virus to New Yorkers traveling home to the Dominican Republic. People who've traveled to the DR represent more than half of the Zika cases in New York.
Health
Dominicans in New York are planning summer visits home. That means Zika planning.
Hillary Clinton's role among women
Global Politics
What Clinton’s candidacy means to women worldwide
Blair Imani and Bill Clinton
Election 2016
Yes, Bill Clinton, I am a Muslim who loves America and freedom. But why is ‘terror’ part of this conversation?
At the RNC, "Girls just wanna have guns." At the DNC, "Girls just wanna have fundamental rights."
Election 2016
The unofficial merch at the conventions told a really different story than the speeches did
Souad Hamidi, 19, removes the niqab she said she had been forced to wear since 2014, after U.S.-backed Syria Democratic Forces took control of her village in northern Syria from Islamic State fighters on June 9, 2016.
Conflict
ISIS is losing its so-called state, so it’s shifting its message
Kelly Orians facilitates a weekly discussion group for formerly incarcerated entrepreneurs. Until their new space is fully renovated, they meet in the back of an events hall in New Orleans' Gentilly neighborhood.
Justice
Getting out of prison it’s hard to find a job. Why not help ex-prisoners start their own businesses?
Tanbou Toujou Lou is the latest offering from Ostinato Records
Culture
A melting pot of global music, compiled from Haiti’s past
Police stand guard outside the Olympia shopping mall, where last week's shooting rampage started, in Munich, Germany July 23, 2016
Conflict
How will Germany deal with lone wolf terrorism, the invisible enemy?
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event at Trump Doral golf course in Miami, Florida, U.S., July 27, 2016.
Global Politics
What does the former US ambassador to Russia think of Trump’s hacking request?
Former President Bill Clinton speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia
Global Politics
Bill Clinton says Hillary can make any world problem better in 30 days. Really? What about Syria?
Bill Clinton Speech 2
Global Politics
Bill Clinton’s line for American Muslims
Melania Trump and Bill Clinton
Global Politics
Some free advice for the potential first spouses
An elderly man sitting at a table with photos
Justice
70 years later, US World War II veterans still separated from family in the Philippines have new hope
Puerto Ricans from across the country march near Philadelphia's city hall during the Democratic National Convention, July 25, 2016.
Global Politics
What it means to be ‘American’ is different for Puerto Ricans
Philadelphia councilwoman at-large Helen Gym is a progressive leader who believes in grassroots efforts.
Election 2016
Here’s what progressive politics looks like in the city that ‘invented democracy’
U.S. First lady Michelle Obama addresses the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Global Politics
In Nigeria, ‘it’s unanimous’ — Michelle Obama for POTUS
An engraving by William Miller of Newcastle in 1832
Environment
Newcastle University cuts its ties to coal
German Chancellor Angela Merkel shakes hands with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) prior to a meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin April 14, 2011.
Election 2016
Could a President Clinton create a ‘critical mass’ of female world leaders?
​Iraqi soldiers reload a weapon during clashes with Islamic State militants on the outskirts of Makhmour, south of Mosul, Iraq.
Conflict
What it’s like to find your name on an ISIS hit list
Bernie Sanders fans show their support during the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, July 25, 2016.
Global Politics
‘Bernie or Bust’ is a risk many Americans with undocumented relatives can’t take
Delegates protesting against the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement hold up signs during the first sesssion of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. , Pe
Economics
What is the TPP and why are both parties so angry about it?
Vendors sell bike rentals, guided tours and memorabilia outside the main entrance to Mezhyhirya.
Global Politics
The unusual things you’ll see while touring the lavish estate of Ukraine’s ex-president (PHOTOS)
American flag fight
Election 2016
What is an American? People at the political conventions weigh in.
Who is behind the DNC hack?
Conflict
Who hacked the DNC? The links point to Russia.
People perform prayers at the funeral for one of the victims of yesterday's suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan July 24, 2016.
Conflict
Has the world forgotten about Afghanistan?
Assa Traoré and the family's lawyer Frédéric Zajac, spoke to the press and supporters three days after the death of her brother, Adama Traoré, in police custody.
Conflict
In France, there’s a call for a Black Lives Matter movement
Girl sitting with other students look to side
Education
Once, students were punished for speaking Spanish. Here, they are honored.
A woman holds a "Bernie!" sign at the Democratic National Convention
Global Politics
Britain elected a third-party candidate, but it didn’t quite fix everything
Elena: Princess of Avalor.
Culture
The new Latina Disney princess somehow lives in precolonial times
Hillary Clinton waves as she arrives onstage to accept the nomination.
Election 2016
Clinton’s night: The DNC in photos
Munich in a panic after mall shooting
Conflict
Witness: ‘I could see people lying on the ground’
Marwah Maasarani and her husband Omar Awad watching Donald Trump's RNC speech in their New Jersey livingroom on Thursday.
Election 2016
Here’s what a Muslim couple in New Jersey made of Donald Trump’s RNC speech
The former Yugoslavia knows where fractiousness leads
Books
What America’s 2016 vote has in common with the end of Yugoslavia
The the main club house inside Mezhgorye, the residence of Ukraine's ousted president Victor Yanukovych.
Conflict
Ukrainians vowed to turn their ex-president’s estate into a ‘Museum of Corruption.’ But it’s something else now.
War Resisters Support Campaign
Global Politics
US resisters to the Iraq War are living under threat of deportation in Canada
faces in crowd yelling, close up image
Global Politics
Who’s afraid of Donald Trump?
People queue outside hawker Chan Hong Meng's Michelin star awarded stall, for his soya sauce chicken rice and noodle at a food market in Singapore.
Culture
Singapore gets the world’s first Michelin star for a food stall
Tsai Ing-wen arrives at the Presidential Office to swear in as Taiwan's President in Taipei, Taiwan on May 20, 2016.
Global Politics
Women from female-led countries react to Hillary Clinton’s nomination
Night Lights
Music
These young musicians are hoping the US government likes their ‘exceptional abilities’
Ole Martin Juul Slyngstadli on Utoya Island five years after the Norway shootings. He says the biggest victory for survivors of the attack like him is that the summer camp remains open and a new crop of kids is arriving next month.
Justice
Your answer to mass shootings is to get bigger guns. To me that’s really strange.
Teachers march toward the local congress
Conflict
A protest over education has turned into a movement in Mexico
Former South Carolina congressman Bob Inglis says Donald Trump and his Republican party are "shrinking in science denial" on climate change because they don't like the solutions proposed by Democrats. But he says there's a simple conservative solution his
Environment
This Republican says his party’s denial of climate science is ‘courting disaster’ with voters
Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump appears onstage to introduce his wife Melania at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. July 18, 2016.
Global Politics
How a President Trump would change US foreign policy
Turkey coup
Conflict
My parents coached me through my first coup
Donald Trump masks in a Latex Art and Crafts Factory in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, China. If Trump is elected president, he'd like to put a 45 percent tax on these masks, and other products, imported to the US.
Economics
Trump’s trade policies are worrying economists
People cheer in the Quicken Loans Arena during the Republican National Convention
Culture
‘Lock her up!’: A guide to some of the RNC’s most popular chants
Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump applauds onstage as his running-mate Indiana Governor Mike Pence concludes his speech during the third night of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. July 20, 2016.
Global Politics
Trump’s comments leave some European leaders worried about the future of NATO