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CIA Director John Brennan at an intelligence summit in DC on Sept. 8.
Global Politics
CIA chief warns Trump against ripping up the Iran deal
Imam Mohammad Islam leads Friday prayers at Al Ma'ad Al Islami mosque outside of Atlanta, Georgia on November 18, 2016.
Religion
A planned Muslim cemetery and mosque outside of Atlanta is still on hold
Arnold and Sharon Giammarco, with their daughter Blair.
Conflict
After 50 years as a legal immigrant, I spent 18 months in immigration detention without a bail hearing
A cyclist rides past autumn-colored ivy climbing the wall of a building in downtown Copenhagen November 2, 2010.
Lifestyle
Trips by bike finally outnumber those taken by car in Copenhagen
Site of drone strike
Justice
How the Obama administration’s drone program normalized targeted killing
Carrier manufactures air conditioners, like the one pictured.
Economics
Trump delivers on promise — manufacturing jobs to stay in Indiana. But at what cost?
Cuban artist Tania Bruguera has been arrested by authorities in Havana three times in recent years.
Global Politics
Cuba’s most controversial artist sketches the island’s post-Fidel future
Gustavo Canduri (r) owned a small business back in Venezuela. Now he's working at a barbershop in Bogotá owned by Camila Rincón (l).
Economics
Many Venezuelans are migrating to Colombia. It used to be the other way around.
Chad Kroeger
People hate Nickelback so much that Canadian cops are using their music as punishment
Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders, left, and Dutch counterpart Bert Koenders sign a border correction treaty in Amsterdam during an official state visit to the Netherlands, on Nov. 28, 2016.
Conflict
These countries changed their borders without firing bullets
HVAC Instructor Dennis Matney (left) teaches Travis Keppen how to repair pipes in a classroom in Burns Harbor, Indiana.
Economics
Job retraining classes are offered to Rust Belt workers, but many don’t want them
Members of the Ku Klux Klan demonstrating outside the statehouse in Columbia, South Carolina, July 18th 2015
Global Politics
Is democracy dying?
vivafidel
Global Politics
What does a Trump presidency mean for Cuban-American relations?
National Front supporters in Burgundy, France
Global Politics
France’s National Front polishes image, sets sights on 2017 elections
women use smartphone
Culture
Stark numbers show who gets trolled the most online. See for yourself.
Residents of Aleppo, clutching a handful of possessions, leave rebel-held areas of the city after four years under siege.
Conflict
Can the rebellion in Syria survive?
Musician Frilal Ortiz carries a double bass in downtown Havana
Music
Here’s a taste of Cuban music in the time of Castro
Safehouse
Global Politics
The Cuban history lying behind an old door in Mexico City
Freshwater ponds appear atop the Arctic ice
Economics
Arctic ice melt poses a risk of uncontrollable climate change, scientists say
Mikaela Shiffrin of the U.S. at the Alpine Skiing World Cup Finals in Meribel, in the French Alps, March 22, 2015.
Culture
Get your cowbell ready. World Cup skiing returns to Vermont.
At 310 feet, Millennium Force at Cedar Point in Ohio is now the world’s seventh tallest roller coaster. It was built by the Swiss company Intamin, which has designed seven of the world’s top 10 tallest coasters.
Business
Make American-built roller coasters great again!
Penelope Maitrot took part in an anti-Trump demonstration in Paris. The next day, the left-leaning student crossed party lines to vote in a primary for the political right.
Global Politics
Fear of Marine Le Pen has France’s left crossing party lines
Thanksgiving in Hibbing, Minnesota with the family of Korean-American author Marie Myung-Ok Lee.
Global Politics
A mundane Thanksgiving can be the ideal holiday gift
Portuguese fado singer Mariza
Music
Famed fado singer Mariza is back with ‘Mundo’
Yulia Privedennaya (left), 42, sits next to her younger sister Alla Levchenko in the Moscow suburb of Vidnoe. Levchenko, 31, fled shelling in her hometown of Makiivka, Ukraine, last year and reunited with her sister.
Conflict
Putin promised Ukrainians sanctuary from their war; it hasn’t exactly happened.
A billboard links the agendas of US president-elect Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Danilovgrad, Montenegro.
Global Politics
Navigating post-truth politics in Russia and America
Syrian
Global Politics
Any number of Syrian refugees may be too many for Trump
The Akwesasne Freedom School
Culture
At this school in upstate New York, students are free to speak Mohawk
Anne Frank's poetry letter to her friend Christiane was sold today to a private bidder.
Culture
Buyer pays nearly $150,000 for a letter Anne Frank wrote at 12
wonder woman
Arts
To find success, soul singer Sharon Jones had to leave the US
A man from the Muskogee tribe looks at the Oceti Sakowin shrouded in mist during a protest against the Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.
Belief
You took a DNA test and it says you are Native American. So what?
Najibullah Zahedi (left) is a refugee from Afghanistan who resettled in Georgia with his family. He's a student at the Lantern Project, run by Luke Keller, where he carved the US Congress seal.
Economics
Ban Muslims? These Christians in Georgia say that would be a big mistake.
Fortuné gets up at 4 a.m. to prepare homemade spaghetti, which he starts selling at his stand at 6 a.m.
Development
Fortuné’s big dreams and small spaghetti business
Four women, March 22, 2012
Books
You don’t hear much about Africans in China. These photos say a lot.
Hoor, 16, arrived in Istanbul in late June
Conflict
For one Afghan teenage girl, the refugee trail is as dangerous as the war left behind
UKIP leader Nigel Farage says he was 'shocked' by the suggestion that he should become British Ambassador to the US.
Culture
Trump has a particular Brit in mind to be the UK’s next ambassador in Washington
The Trump Turnberry golf resort in Turnberry, Scotland.
Conflict
Is it legal for a president-elect to talk with foreign leaders about his business?
two men stand in front of bags of groceries
Culture
This chef is cooking Native American Thanksgiving meals for everyone at Standing Rock
"The Skeptic" illustration from Andrew North's The Big Draw: Selling the Soviet Past.
Culture
Take a tour of the ‘Home Depot of Soviet past’
El Perro Del Mar
Music
‘I want to kind of obliterate geographical borders between music and people’
Since Nicolas Maduro became president in 2013, the Venezuelan government has arrested and detained thousands of citizens. Most but not all are let go within a few days. One who remains incarcerated is opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez. Another is Joshua Ho
Justice
What it’s like being a political prisoner in Venezuela under Maduro
School
Education
How one school is helping students cope with post-election fears
A scene from the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in July 2016.
Global Politics
Why America doesn’t ban hate speech
Two weeks after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the demonetization of 500 and 1000 rupee currency notes, residents of south Delhi continue to line up in front of ATMs in hopes of withdrawing cash.
Economics
India’s crisis over bank notes hits women especially hard
Conflict
Conflict
This Pittsburgh restaurant offers takeout and a side of politics
Mike Fugate crossed party lines to vote for Trump. He hopes the president-elect can save his Indiana job from going to Mexico.
Economics
Trump gave a ‘100 percent’ guarantee that their jobs wouldn’t go to Mexico. Now, Indiana workers expect him to deliver.
Okinawa protest
Conflict
Okinawa, host to many US military bases, braces for a Trump presidency
Arunga and Williams
Books
The story of the online, pan-African Magunga Bookstore
Climate activists protest outside this month's UN Climate Change Conference in Marrakech. Activists and officials are strugling to find a way forward for last year's landmark Paris Agreement on climate change after the US presidential election.
Environment
With Trump heading to the White House, global climate activists look for hope in US cities and states
UNC professor Zeynep Tufekci says Facebook is offering the news equivalent of Halloween candy.
Media
How to stop Facebook when its newsfeed ‘serves Halloween candy for breakfast, lunch and dinner’
Trump and sons
Global Politics
Comics might want to hold back on the ‘Trump is a dictator’ bit
Islamic Center
Religion
In Los Angeles, anxieties about Trump trigger solidarity — and organization
Senior German CDU party sources say on November 20, 2016 that Merkel will run again for the Chancellorship in the next year general elections.
Global Politics
Germany’s Merkel seeks fourth term to defend threatened ‘values’
President Atambayev has pushed for alterations in the Kyrgyzstan's constitution.
Culture
Who lost Kyrgyzstan’s constitution?
Argentine President Mauricio Macri in an interview in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Aug. 8.
Business
Argentina’s president denies Trump pressed him on a private tower deal
Fares Al Dhufairy
Conflict
This asylum-seeker escaped ‘the chicken house’ and made one last dangerous crossing
presidential fallout shelter
Conflict
Could scientists help defuse a nuclear crisis?
Pradip Upreti
Food
Refugee-run grocery stores help bring healthy fare to a food desert in Pennyslvania
Former Maldives deputy UN ambassador Thilmeeza Hussain at the global climate conference in Paris in December, 2015, just before the adoption of the landmark Paris Agreement. With a suddenly very different political environment in the US, Hussain says clim
Environment
World climate activists to US: Please don’t be a ‘rogue state’ under Trump
Trump Tower
Economics
President-elect Trump’s potential conflicts of interest are massive