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A Somali woman wearing a purple headscarf answers the phone in an office with American flags and East Africa map on the wall.

US-based Somali Bantu face deportation to a country they’ve never known

Migration

In the early 2000s, the United States resettled thousands of Somali Bantu, a group of marginalized tribes who have faced years of discrimination. Nearly 20 years later, many of their adult children are facing the unimaginable: deportation to Somalia. 

US members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, wearing protective masks, gather at Toncontin International airport before heading home, as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, March 29, 2020.

Latter-day Saints calls missionaries home amid coronavirus 

Religion
US President Donald Trump displays an executive order

Trump cuts federal protection for two national monuments

Environment
Close-up of face of man asleep on sofa with infant child next to him, wrapped in blanket

2,800 miles and 26 years later, a new dad looks for his own father in Guatemala

Lifestyle
Former Special Forces Engineer Sargeant Layne Morris lost the vision in his right eye during a grenade attack in Afghanistan in 2002. He's now suing the former Guantanamo detainee who threw the grenade.

An ex-US soldier sues his adversary in Afghanistan to keep him from reaping millions of dollars

Conflict & Justice
Former Special Forces Engineer Sargeant Layne Morris lost the vision in his right eye during a grenade attack in Afghanistan in 2002. He's now suing the former Guantanamo detainee who threw the grenade.

An ex-US soldier sues his adversary in Afghanistan to keep him from reaping millions of dollars

Conflict & Justice

Canadian Omar Khadr was just 15 when he allegedly threw a grenade in Afghanistan that injured Sergeant Layne Morris and killed another American. Now Khadr is suing the Canadian government for $20 million and Sergeant Morris intends to stop him from using that money.

Russian police check a driver's documents in Sochi December 30, 2013.

Russia ramps up Olympic security in Sochi, but can they do it with a smile?

Sports

Russia today began locking down the southern city of Sochi, a month before the Winter Olympics get underway. Tens of thousands of police and army troops are being deployed in and around the Black Sea resort. So can Russia provide security without suffocating the Olympic atmosphere?

Study find certain U.S. regions can keep poor people poor

Geography, it turns out, is a key determiner in whether low-income children can improve their socio-economic status by the time they become adults. That’s a key finding of a new research report from researchers at Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley.

Supreme Court rules human genes can’t be patented

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that companies cannot patent parts of naturally-occurring human genes, a decision with the potential to profoundly affect the emerging and lucrative medical and biotechnology industries.

Utah band blends American folk music with Chinese instruments

Arts, Culture & Media

When four Mormons went on their mission trips to China, they unlocked a passion for Chinese music. They learned new instruments that have allowed them to present a completely different type of music from anything heard in the United States.