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Prisoners flash the MS-13 Mara Salvatrucha street gang hand sign from inside a jail cell at a police station in San Salvador.
Conflict
The ‘alien threat’ street gang MS-13 was actually made in the USA
A corpsman treats a wounded Marine in the city of Hue, Vietnam, in June 1968.
Conflict
Remembering the ghosts of the ‘Tet Offensive’
Cleveland Indians logo
Sports
Cleveland Indians will ditch ‘Chief Wahoo’ logo on uniforms next year
Woman in bandana leans over jars of green beans with permanent marker, writing on tops
Health
Four months of food aid in Puerto Rico brought too much salt and sugar, say some recipients
A migrant carrying a child waits to cross the border with Croatia near the village of Berkasovo, Serbia, Oct. 19, 2015. Women face assault, harassment and sexual violence at every step of the way along the European migrant trail, including on European soi
Conflict
As the European migrant trail has gone underground, the threat of sexual violence has increased
Supporters of southern Yemeni separatists take part in an anti-government protest in Aden, Yemen January 28, 2018
Conflict
South Yemen’s separatists speak through a Michigan mom
Afghan men carry the coffin of one of the victims of a car bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan January 28, 2018.
Conflict
Violence in Kabul is so extreme, citizens are carrying around ‘in case I die’ notes
US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin talk
Global Politics
Russia reacts to the ‘oligarch list’
UK soul singer and guitarist James Hunter just released his second album for Daptone Records. It's called "Whatever it Takes."
Music
Soul captured James Hunter’s heart at a young age
A cow
Economics
The Quapaw tribe hopes a cattle slaughterhouse will provide jobs in rural Oklahoma
Kim Høegh-Dam is the founder of Iluliaq Seafood A/S.
Environment
Fishermen in Greenland are doing better than ever. That might be thanks to climate change.
A girl from the Pauktaw township stands in front of her family's shelter in a Rohingya internally displaced persons camp
Conflict
The Rohingya crisis lead to a falling out between Bill Richardson and Aung San Suu Kyi
Representative Mike Coffman at a recent Cinco de Mayo celebration in Colorado's Sixth District. Coffman has been both praised for reaching out to his immigrant constituents and attacked for not doing enough to represent them in Congress.
Global Politics
A Republican congressman walks the tricky middle ground on immigration reform
Lawmakers sitting around Trump during an immigration roundtable.
Conflict
Four things to know about Trump’s latest immigration proposal
Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attends a meeting with members of the Workers Party that decided Lula da Silva will be its candidate again in the 2018 election, despite losing an appeal against a corruption conviction that will likely
Global Politics
Lula’s limbo between prison and presidency looms over 2018 Brazil race
A man leads a caravan of camels at the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival in Saudi Arabia, a monthlong extravaganza honoring the “ships of the desert” and their place in the country’s history.
Culture
What a camel beauty contest can tell us about the future of Saudi Arabia
Kavemuii Murangi (left) and Mekahako Komomungondo, two Herero descendants who have called on the American Museum of Natural History to repatriate its Namibian human remains.
Conflict
How human remains from a forgotten genocide were stolen and collected in New York City
Director Ziad Doueiri poses during a photocall for the movie "The Insult," at the 74th Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy on August 31, 2017. The film won Best Actor for Kamal el-Basha’s role. When he returned to Lebanon, Doueiri was detained by author
Arts
This Lebanese filmmaker is getting global acclaim, but back home he got arrested
Musician Cedric Watson
Music
‘There’s something missing in African American music today.’
Dominique Moceanu
Culture
Gold medalist Dominique Moceanu warned us 10 years ago about abuse in USA Gymnastics
Georgina Hernandez
Jobs
Before #MeToo, women janitors organized to fight workplace harassment
Painter and sculptor Nancy Uyemura
Arts
LA’s Little Tokyo is gentrifying and pushing out some of the city’s most prominent artists
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Amb. Wendy Sherman speaking at Wellesley College.
Conflict
Madeleine Albright: ‘Many of the best diplomats are women’
Chain of Bitcoin keychains, symbolizing the Bitcoin Blockchain.
Technology
Blockchain seems to be all the hype these days. But what, exactly, is it?
Smoke rises as people inspect damage at the site of airstrikes in the city of Saada, Yemen, Jan. 6, 2018.
Conflict
Saudi Arabia promises $1.5 billion in aid to Yemen — but it’s still bombing the country
Two book cover images.
Books
Remixed book covers imagine a young adult book series that confronts racism
Two men hug in room with many people around them
Justice
An immigrant detainee is sent over 1,000 miles away from his family and lawyer — and fights to return
Late South African jazz great Hugh Masekela,
Culture
How South African jazz musician Hugh Masekela inspired band members
South African trumpeter and musician Hugh Masekela performs on May 13, 2012.
Music
From the archives: An interview with the late Hugh Masekela
Two older men meet each other and shake hands.
Conflict
Decades after an immigration policy separated his family, a man searches for his ancestral village
Vice President Mike Pence addressing the Knesset, in Jerusalem, Monday
Global Politics
Is the US suffering from incoherent policies in the Middle East?
Catholic high school students from all over the country attended Friday's "March for Life" event in Washington, DC. This group from Kapaun Mt. Carmel Catholic High School in Wichita, Kansas took buses to be there.
Religion
For some Christians, being ‘pro-life’ isn’t just about being against abortion
Hundreds of indigenous men and women marched in Phoenix, Arizona, on Sunday in honor of missing and murdered indigenous women.
Global Politics
Indigenous rights activists come out for the Women’s March in Phoenix
A university student, a member of a club studying cryptocurrencies, attends a meeting at a university in Seoul, South Korea, December 20, 2017.
Commentary
Why some young South Koreans are putting their hopes in cryptocurrencies
Banner reads "Women's rights — women's business"
Justice
The abortion debate in Poland heats up again with newly proposed bill
Actress Meryl Streep (L) and the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Ai-jen Poo, at the 75th Golden Globe Awards.
Arts
Millions say #MeToo. But not everyone is heard equally.
A pink sign reading, "The future is female" is hoisted above the crowds of marchers, some of whom are wearing the signature pink pussy hats.
Conflict
Marchers: ‘I want to stand with my sisters’
South Sudanese disembark from a plane from Israel after getting deported back to Juba, June 18, 2012.
Justice
Hundreds of Israeli rabbis say they will personally hide African asylum-seekers in their homes
President Trump and a coal miner
Environment
Trump and the environment, one year into the presidency
Jordan Greenway will become the first black ice hockey player to skate for Team USA at the Olympics, pictured here at the IIHF World Junior Championship on Dec. 28, 2016.
Sports
Another ‘Miracle on Ice?’ American unknowns to take on star-studded Russian team.
Man on a computer
Jobs
Fewer international students coming to US for grad school in science and engineering
Sign warning residents of water restrictions is seen in Cape Town.
Conflict
Cape Town could be the first major city in the world to run out of water
A section of the Bayeux Tapestry depicting a scene in the decisive Battle of Hastings in 1066
Arts
English and French rivalry highlighted by loan of historic Bayeux Tapestry
Pat traveled from Nigeria to Florence in search of work and was sold into a sex trafficking ring. After she escaped, she lived as an undocumented migrant in southern Italy until an advocacy group helped her secure status. Now she's applying for Italian ci
Justice
Undocumented migrants in southern Italy find security and empowerment in being ‘vulnerable’
Women in the US military want their voices added to the #MeToo movement. Women vets say sexual assault and harassment are rarely reported out of fear of retribution.
Conflict
Women veterans want their voices heard in the #MeToo movement
(Left to right): Indira Marquez Robles, Dustin Henderson, Maria Geneva Reyes, Mwewa Mwange and Jasiel López (left to right) are recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
Jobs
Nearly 40 percent of DACA recipients are high school or college students. Now their future is in limbo.
Protesters in the Women's March in Paris, France, January 21, 2017.
Culture
Some French men are lamenting ‘the end of love as we know it’
Woman walking on sidewalk, wearing a backpack
Education
A court ruling offers some relief to this Texas high school student. But will it last?
The formal opening of the new US embassy in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, January 5th 2009
Conflict
Whatever happened to the giant US embassy in Baghdad?
A grizzly feeds on dead salmon at the end of their spawning run in a river in British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest. Hunting grizzlies was banned throughout the vast region late last year.
Environment
British Columbia has a flourishing grizzly bear tourism industry
Actress Catherine Deneuve poses at the 70th Cannes Film Festival.
Arts
Deneuve sends a dated message of empowerment
My Brother's Keeper, print by artist Watson Mere
Arts
This Haitian American artist’s image of MLK hushing Trump goes viral again
A man exhibits on his chest photos of Pope Francis to sell outside St. Jose Cathedral ahead of the papal visit in Temuco, Chile, Jan. 14, 2018.
Lifestyle
As the pope arrives in Chile, Chileans question their allegiance to the church
(From right) Muhammad Anwar and Hussein Muhammad (wearing a hat) chat with Ibrahim Rashid, an intern with IINE (center), and a community member.
Conflict
Two Rohingya refugees start a new life in Boston
The sun rises on the Statue of Liberty, in New York, November 2nd 2016
Global Politics
Norwegian statesman Jan Egeland critiques Trump’s reported vulgar remarks
Woman with hands together looking at a computer screen, with man looking on
Culture
Trump’s latest controversy should spark a real conversation about immigration policy
Corinne Joachim Sanon went back to Haiti to start a business, and she located her business, Askanya Chcolatiers, in the house where her grandmother grew up.
Business
Eight years after the earthquake, a different taste of Haiti
St. Shmuni Church in Bartella, Iraq, shows damage sustained while the town was under ISIS control for two years.
Conflict
ISIS turned this young Iraqi Christian into an atheist
A screenshot of the headline from Germany's Speigel.
Global Politics
How countries around the world translated Trump
Group, including priest, lined up on street with immigration signs
Justice
A prominent immigrant advocate has been detained by immigration agents in New York City