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Demonstrators against the Dakota Access oil pipeline block a road near North Dakota's Standing Rock Reservation in October. The pipeline would cross historic Native land and pass under the Missouri River, the source of the local water supply.
Environment
It’s not just about a pipeline. Native activists say Dakota battle is their biggest stand in decades.
A woman cries during a meeting between FARC guerrilla leaders and victims of the La Chinita massacre
Conflict
Schools help Colombians remember what it means to forgive
Police use pepper spray against protesters trying to cross a stream near an oil pipeline construction site near Standing Rock Indian Reservation, north of Cannon Ball, North Dakota, U.S. November 2, 2016.
Conflict
The United Nations heads to North Dakota to investigate possible human rights abuses
Republican Party campaign poster, 1908, including the pledge to "stop at once the accumulation of dishonest wealth, thereby carefully distributing the national wealth more fairly."
Global Politics
What the world was like when the Cubs last won the World Series
An unfinished painting of a woman
Justice
How art can help us better understand the fastest growing group of undocumented immigrants
The entrance to the room where the tomb of Jesus is located.
Religion
Jesus’ tomb was just exposed for the first time in centuries. Here are the photos.
Chief Arvol Looking Horse, spiritual leader of the Sioux Nation, leads his people to peacefully pray near a law enforcement barricade just outside of a Dakota Access pipeline construction site north of Cannon Ball, North Dakota, on Oct. 29, 2016.
Conflict
#NoDAPL has momentum, but will it drive Native Americans to vote?
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds a campaign event in Miami
Election 2016
Is Trump making it harder for the US to spread democracy?