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A three-image combo of stills taken from CCTV footage shows Kadiza Sultana, left, Shamima Begum, centre and and Amira Abase going through security at Gatwick airport

Reports show British teenager was allegedly trafficked to ISIS by Canadian agent

Justice

Azadeh Moaveni, with the International Crisis Group, speaks with The World’s host Carol Hills about Shamima Begum, a British woman who was a teenager when she traveled to Syria in 2015. Moaveni says new information about Begum being trafficked by a Canadian intelligence agent could have serious implications for Canada.

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Research suggests a new reason for teens’ risky behavior

Science
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Teens

Teenage indecision? That’s just the growing brain, a new study says.

Science

As it turns out, picky adolescent behavior is natural — and can actually be an asset to the maturing brain.

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Rocked by suicides, Palo Alto high schools want to make mental health care as normal as eating breakfast

Education

In February, the CDC was called in to investigate Palo Alto’s suicide crisis. Now, high schools have opened new wellness centers to try to help teens better cope.

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What it’s like to return to Mexico, from the perspectives of three kids who grew up north of the border

Education

These three high school students didn’t have much of a choice when they left the US, where they were raised for most of their lives. These are their stories, in their own words.

Abdirizak Bihi, who directs the Somali Education and Social Advocacy Center in Minnesota, testifies at a congressional hearing on radicalization in Washington. Bihi's nephew left Minnesota to fight with al-Shabab in 2008.

In Minnesota, ISIS may be building on the recruiting networks once used by other terror groups

Conflict

This Somali American was devastated when his teenage nephew traveled from Minneapolis to Mogadishu to join the extremists of al-Shabab. Now ISIS seems to be using the same recruiting networks to lure American teens to Syria and Iraq.

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