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Howard International Students
Education
How do tensions with the White House impact HBCU diversity?
Street scene, colorized old photo, vendors, people in top hats, carriages
Global Politics
Another time in history that the US created travel bans — against Italians
U.S. Marines and Navy corpsmen attached to the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit and Sailors assigned to Amphibious Construction Battalion 2 speak with local civilian employees during an assessment of Hospital Oriente’s medical and operational needs as part
Development
When disaster strikes, it’s the US military that’s often the most capable responder
People hold Esteladas (Catalan separatist flags) as they wait for a closing rally in favour of the banned October 1 independence referendum in Barcelona, Spain.
Global Politics
Tensions heat up before Catalan independence vote
Soldiers of Puerto Rico's national guard distribute relief items to people, Sept. 24, 2017, after the area was hit by Hurricane Maria in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Environment
Here’s what Puerto Rico really needs from Donald Trump
cranberry bog
Environment
How a family is transforming its cranberry bog from environmental liability to climate change buffer
A Rohingya refugee girl at a camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
Conflict
Myanmar’s critics call Rohingya-only enclaves ’21st-century concentration camps’
A man drives an oxcart past the rubble of what was once a traditional-style home in Unión Hidalgo, Oaxaca.
Environment
In Oaxaca, thousands of aftershocks mean no one’s getting much sleep
Americans spend six billion hours and $10 billion every year preparing and filing their taxes.
Books
Many countries have a simple, fair tax system. Could the US be next?
Members of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) “Urban Search and Rescue” team conduct a search operation in an area hit by Hurricane Maria in Yauco, Puerto Rico on September 25, 2017.
Development
The federal emergency response in Puerto Rico has been slow, and there’s a long way to go
People queue to fill containers with water from a tank truck at an area hit by Hurricane Maria in Canovanas, Puerto Rico.
Environment
How to help Puerto Rico after Maria
Female driver Azza Al Shmasani alights from her car after driving in defiance of the ban in Riyadh June 22, 2011.
Culture
Saudi women celebrate end of the driving ban
Actress and North Korean defector Kim Ah-ra, 25, on a talk show showcasing “northern beauties” from North Korea.
Media
From tyranny to reality TV: Meet the celebrity defector women of North Korea
A group of people heading to a demonstration are going up a stairway in downtown Chicago.
Conflict
Rohingya in Chicago make an emotional plea to the US: ‘Help our people’
Eugene Hutz of the band Gogol Bordello
Culture
Gogol Bordello’s front man on what it means to be Ukrainian
screenshots of two advertisements of Facebook posts by John Curtis
Global Politics
Utah congressional candidate says Facebook ad to ‘build the wall’ was made in error
The heated rhetoric between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un shows no signs of abating.
Conflict
What happens if Trump decides to launch a nuclear weapon, and his advisers disagree?
Moving day, Mexico City
Environment
A nervous Mexico City struggles to recover from the earthquake, while engineers canvass the city for damage
Floods
Health
For domestic abuse survivors, finding safety amid natural disasters is ‘very complicated’
A 3D-printed logo for Twitter is seen in this picture illustration.
Global Politics
Twitter says it won’t take down Trump’s tweet to North Korea
destruction from 1985 earthquake in Mexico
Arts
A photographer who made a name shooting Mexico’s ’85 earthquake is now fighting for his life
The interior of Facebook's data center in Prineville, Oregon.
Economics
How Facebook saved a dying mill town
A demonstrator holds a poster reading "13 percent is a shame" during a protest against the anti-immigration party Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) after German general election in Berlin.
Global Politics
How a far-right party’s nationalistic rhetoric framed the issues in Germany’s election
A US Huey Cobra fires rockets at an enemy target in Ia Drang, October 1965.
Conflict
How the Vietnam War shaped my life and my career
Local residents look at the flooded houses close to the dam of the Guajataca lake, on September 23, 2017.
Economics
For Puerto Rico, the aftermath of Hurricane Maria ‘looks like a humanitarian crisis’
Afghani refugee, Ahmad Wali Temory, has worked in Germany's parliament with the goal of helping preserve the policies that brought him to Germany.
Global Politics
Merkel’s party wants to deport migrants to Afghanistan, but this refugee says it’s unsafe
Yu-Mex records in Belgrade, Serbia
Culture
In mid-’60s Yugoslavia, mariachi music was really popular
Woman sitting on grass in front of building with two young children in front of her
Justice
Why this DACA recipient won’t be extending her protected status, but says others should
Tens of thousands turn out for a rally in Erbil, northern Iraq, in support of Kurdistan's independence referendum.
Conflict
Should Kurdistan break off from Iraq? We asked young voters.
US Customs and Immigration officers keep watch at the arrivals level at Los Angeles International Airport, June 29, 2017
Conflict
Trump’s new travel ban ‘still smells and looks like a Muslim ban,’ activists say
The work of Ramón Esono Ebalé at the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum.
Arts
A cartoonist out to unseat a dictator is arrested
Lesego Legobane
Culture
He trolled a plus-size model on Twitter. She had the perfect comeback.
Organic banana trees are not producing bananas fit for export due to extreme weather changes in Piura, Peru.
Environment
The latest victims of extreme weather: grapes and bananas
A combination photo shows US President Donald Trump in New York, Sept. 21, 2017, and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency in Pyongyang, Sept. 4, 2017.
Conflict
Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un are more alike than you probably realize
A 3D plastic representation of the Facebook logo is seen in this illustration photo May 13, 2015.
Global Politics
After a Russia-related revelation, Facebook takes steps to ‘protect election integrity’
People walk among debris on the seashore in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, September 21, 2017.
Environment
Immigration attorneys warn against using the term ‘climate refugee’
Puerto Rico flooded
Conflict
What it was like for Puerto Ricans during Hurricane Maria
Xiyue Wang and Hua Qu with their son. Wang has been in prison in Iran for more than a year.
Justice
The wife of a Princeton scholar imprisoned in Iran worries about the fate of the Iran nuclear deal
Former French embassy employee Bernard Boursicot, 41, left and Shi Pei Pu, 47, a singer in Chinese traditional opera face the judge as their trial began in Paris, May 5, 1986.
Arts
At 83, the embassy worker at the center of the ‘M. Butterfly’ story is still an enigma
Alison Kock with a sevengill shark in South Africa.
Science
These female marine scientists have a message for girls: Sharks aren’t just for boys
Mesh fencing with children behind, looking onto US side
Global Politics
Can environmental protection and border security coexist? Not through an impenetrable wall, say Arizona advocates
People cook on an open fire after Hurricane Irma hit the Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami, Florida, US, Sept. 12, 2017.
Conflict
A sense of community as Miami recovers from Hurricane Irma
A woman gets her pulse checked at Jericho Road Community Health Center, a health center that focuses on culturally sensitive health care for refugees.
Culture
Some refugees suffer culture shock — with their health care
A person sits on the roof of a little house while looking at the rubble of a collapsed building after an earthquake hit Mexico City, Mexico September 20, 2017.
Environment
Desperate search for survivors after powerful earthquake in Mexico
The new monument to Mikhail Kalashnikov in Moscow
Culture
Russia puts Kalashnikov on a pedestal
Donald Trump and Mohammad bin Salman
Justice
Why one Saudi journalist may not be going home anytime soon
Aliou Toure of the band Songhoy Blues
Music
‘When you write a song about racism, it’s a big deal’
Like Trump, Prime Minister Modi's preferred means of communication is Twitter
Conflict
Trump’s Twitter storms have a parallel in India
“The Spirit of ’76,” by Archibald Willard, which exemplifies the spirit of the citizen-nation in arms, with men of all ages stepping up when needed by their country, the antithesis of a professional, standing army, despised by the Founding Fathers
Conflict
Trump wants a big military parade, but the Founding Fathers might not approve
Investagators looking into Russia's role in the 2016 election are focusing on the role of Donald Trump's campaign chair and convention manager Paul Manafort.
Justice
Mueller ‘blocking all the escape routes’ for Paul Manafort
A hooded man holds a laptop computer as blue screen with an exclamation mark is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017.
Global Politics
Russian trolls appear to be staying out of Germany’s election. Here’s why.
Small and colorful bar with lights strung up, patrons raising their glass to the back wall
Culture
Why customers at this LA Tiki bar toast its original owner every Wednesday night
Stanislav Petrov made a split-second decision that probably averted a nuclear conflagration. “I told myself I won’t be the cause of World War III. I won’t. Simple as that,” he said.
Conflict
The unsung Soviet officer who averted nuclear war
Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech to the nation over Rakhine and Rohingya situation.
Conflict
Aung San Suu Kyi breaks her silence on Rohingya crisis, but a fellow Nobel laureate isn’t impressed
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the top candidate of the Christian Democratic Union Party (CDU) for the upcoming general elections, greets supporters during a campaign rally.
Culture
Angela Merkel is at the top, but progress is slow for German women
Ho Chi Minh (standing, third from left), and Vo Nguyen Giap (in white suit), with an OSS team in 1945
Conflict
The little-known story of Vietnamese communist leader Ho Chi Minh’s admiration for the US
U.S. President Donald Trump participates in a session on reforming the United Nations at U.N. Headquarters in New York, U.S., September 18, 2017.
Global Politics
President Trump attends his first UN General Assembly this week. Here’s what to expect.
Rapid response training
Global Politics
US immigration arrests rise — and neighbors sign up to witness ICE operations
Model
Arts
These photos show the strength and beauty of aboriginal cultures in Canada
Fishermen sell their daily catch at the docks in Cordova, Alaska, where they are weighed, packed in ice, and sent to a processing facility.
Economics
Instead of fighting global competition, Alaska’s salmon industry is (reluctantly) embracing it