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Journalist E.B Furgurson talk on the phone as police officers respond to an active shooter inside a city building at the Capital Gazette newspaper office in Annapolis, Maryland, U.S., June 28, 2018.
Media
‘Deadly day’ at Maryland newspaper mirrors dangers for journalists around the world
Close-up photo of man's hand, holding US flag, papers and envelope with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services logo
Immigration
The US is using an expanded fingerprint database to review the citizenship of thousands of Americans
france's soccer team in 1998
Sports
After France won the 1998 World Cup, French diversity was celebrated. But it was short-lived.
Migrant children outside playing on a playground at Casa Combes, a shelter for migrant kids in Harlingen, Texas. Photographed on June 23, 2018.
Immigration
The government faces deadlines to reunite migrant families. It’s unclear if it will meet them.
A you migrant girl crouches next to her family as they listen to officers of the US Customs and Border Protection before entering the United States to apply for asylum.
Discussion: What trauma are separated migrant children now dealing with?
Family or four, two girls, man and woman sit together on boardwalk at sunset
Immigration
‘I lost trust in the system,’ says US citizen now unable to reunite with his Yemeni family
A woman walking towards a lake
Her Body, My Baby
In Ukraine, surrogacy is legal, but some ask if it’s exploitation
A painting is seen around the site where a shell landed during the 2010 North Korean attack
Conflict & Justice
On the anniversary of the Korean War, renewed hope emerges
Newly arriving Jewish refugee from the Nazi Holocaust wave from the ship "S.S. Awarea" as it pulls into Haifa port on April 6, 1948.
Immigration
Deporting asylum-seekers without giving them a chance to make their case would violate US and international laws
Sahar Fetrat, an Afghan documentary filmmaker and activist.
Untold Afghanistan
This Afghan filmmaker got her start fighting street harassment with her camera
Girl in room with Mother's Day balloon in front of her face
Immigration
This mother, already deported, doesn’t know if she’ll ever be reunited with the daughter taken from her at the US border
Nano Raies, a singer, composer and songwriter at Berklee College of Music.
Global Hit
This cover of The Beatles’ ‘Drive My Car’ celebrates Saudi women’s new right to drive
A man wearing a leather coat stands in a public square.
Sexuality
‘For people like you, there is no law’
Young woman in plain room, dirt floor, holding birth certificate
Immigration
There are about 600,000 children in Mexico who were born in the US but struggle to claim citizenship
A haul truck at Peabody Energy's Rawhide coal mine near Gillette, Wyoming. The past few years have been tough for the coal industry in Wyoming — the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2016.
50 States
A Wyoming town looks beyond coal … to new uses for coal
Sign in front of center
Immigration
Why the Trump administration is asking the courts to remove safeguards for detaining migrant children
Young boy entering building from sidewalk
Immigration
‘They didn’t explore the world,’ says physician who cared for toddlers separated from their parents at the border
South-central Wyoming has some of the strongest winds in the United States. The Department of Energy estimates that by 2030, Wyoming has the potential to power the equivalent of 3.4 million homes.
50 States
America’s leading coal state looks to the wind
Penguin in Antarctica
Environment
How do we process doom-and-gloom climate news? How should we?
Daniel, Me Estás Matando performs on a Monday night in David Aguilar's Mexico City apartment.
Music
This apartment may be the best place to hear live music in Mexico City
Muhammed Erdogan, the first Syrian turned Turkish citizen to run for parliament in Turkey, in front of his campaign truck.
Global Politics
The ‘Syrian Erdogan’ running in Turkey’s parliamentary elections
A mother is seen holding her child.
Immigration
Trump’s new order on families at the border raises even more questions about what happens next for child migrants
Three women on stage gesticulating, one with blackface pounding her chest
Arts, Culture & Media
A Miami theater group has a change of heart over blackface
sepia toned image of young boy, with some damage to photo around edges
Immigration
For a child migrant, days feel like a lifetime when you’re imprisoned and alone
Courts
Immigration
Inside one of the busiest immigration courts in the country
Wood scraps
Environment
The UK’s move away from coal means they’re burning wood from the US
Surrogacy clinic
Health
How far would you go to have a biological child?
Children stand behind a fence at a school to which they have been evacuated from a village near Hodeidah airport amid fighting between government forces and Houthi fighters in Hodeidah,
Conflict
In Yemen, the battle for Hodeidah moves closer to city center
A boy looks at a photograph showing Hiroshima city after the 1945 atomic bombing, at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Japan, Aug. 6, 2007.
Conflict & Justice
Tell us your thoughts on nuclear security
The team in the changing room before a big match. Left to right: Kenneth, David, Binumon, Purna, Umesh, Padam.
Jobs
They are building Qatar’s World Cup stadiums — and dreaming of playing soccer.
People take photos with there phones of man standing in middle of a crowd
Global Politics
In the diaspora, Colombia’s presidential election is as much about the past as the future
Teenage boys play video games at Casa Padre, a facility for migrant children in Brownsville, Texas.
What reporters couldn’t see when they toured a Texas shelter for child migrants
An activist with Reporter Without Borders, wearing a mask depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin, stands next to a giant portrait of imprisoned Russian journalist Alexei Kungurov on the Place de la Republique
Global Politics
Between Sochi and the World Cup, Putin built up a resistance to Western criticism over human rights
A young man dressed in blue denim sits on a grey sofa near a large plant with a slight smile on his face.
Arts, Culture & Media
Gaël Faye’s best-selling ‘Small Country’ grapples with history and identity
A view of the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, Yemen May 10, 2017
Conflict
US stands by as Saudi coalition begins assault on Yemeni port city
Carmen Pérez Noyola, holding an envelope, prepares to mail in her ballot from Phoenix for the July 1 presidential election in Mexico.
Politics
From the US, Mexican expats root for a ‘change’ candidate in presidential elections
secondary school Colaiste Raithin
Education
Ireland is asking what role the Catholic Church should play in public education
A woman dresses a girl at a shelter, surrounded by luggage and clothes
Immigration
Immigration judges say Sessions’ decision makes it harder for people facing ‘life and death’ to win asylum in US
Presiden Donald Trump and leader Kim Jung-un meet at a historic summit.
Global Politics
After Trump-Kim summit, South Koreans hope peace will prevail
Kenny Fox at his cattle ranch in Belvidere, South Dakota. Fox, who is a third-generation South Dakota rancher, would like his sons to be able to continue in his footsteps, but worries that the economics are making it too difficult.
Economics
Two South Dakota cattle ranchers, two opinions on NAFTA
A fan dressed in a sweatshirt with the Haitian flag on it, joins DJ Michael Brun on stage at the Bayo Block Party in Miami, Flordia.
Global Hit
Michael Brun delivers a message from Haiti — one summer block party at a time
28-year-old Marzie Noori is a model in Afghanistan. She says at first, her family was against her decision to become a model. "They were so strict," she says, "but I have always considered one thing in my life and that's I will do whatever I like to do."
Untold Afghanistan
Today, women’s clothing in Afghanistan includes far more than the blue burqa
Miners leave after working the final shift at Kellingley Colliery
Environment
Britain built an empire out of coal. Now it’s giving it up. Why can’t the US?
City Hostel Berlin
Economics
North Korean diplomats are beating sanctions to raise cash with this Berlin hostel
Four people sit in a semi-circle around a music stand on a red carpet playing erhu, a traditional Chinese plucked-string instrument.
Arts, Culture & Media
Chinese music is the antidote to my homesickness
three young men in old city jerusalem
Religion
This Ramadan tradition is under threat in Jerusalem
Men impersonating North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump meet at Merlion Park in Singapore, June 8, 2018.
Global Politics
For some in Singapore, the Trump-Kim summit isn’t a big deal
Migrants reaching border
Immigration
Will the US deny asylum to domestic violence survivors?
Canadian-born, New Zealand-based singer Tami Neilson
Global Hit
Sexism and the #MeToo movement inspired this ‘sassy’ singer
A ship carrying tourists plies the waters off Antarctica.
Climate Change
Antarctica needs humans to protect it. It also needs humans to stay away. What’s a potential visitor to do?
Author Anna Dahlqvist talking with Saudah, a teenager in Kampala, Uganda
Women & Gender
The ‘menstrual awakening’: Shattering the period stigma
Young girl walking on lawn, holding teddy bears
Immigration
For this mother and daughter, separated a year ago at the southern border, Trump’s ‘zero-tolerance’ policy isn’t new
Adel Saeed moved to the US from Egypt 41 years ago. He has owned and operated a halal food truck in New York City for 20 years. He says he will never break his fast, even he is offered "millions and millions of dollars."
Religion
What’s Ramadan like for those who have to cook and serve food all day?
kitchen sisters
Health
In a Puerto Rico neighborhood still waiting for power, this community kitchen is like ‘therapy’
A cargo ship unloads a shipment of fuel at the Hodeida port, May 27, 2018.
Conflict
Residents of Yemeni port city prepare for an invasion
Marshall Bang
A Korean American singer is defying stereotypes to make it in K-pop
Close-up of woman in kitchen, looking at phone
Politics
A bill to allow divorce in the Philippines could mean freedom for some women in New York
a navajo woman in new mexico
On the 150th anniversary of the Navajo Treaty, young Navajo grapple with their traumatic history