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Some women stay away from Women’s March over abortion issue

August 21, 2019 at 9:49 p.m.

Melissa Linebaugh was looking forward to taking part in the Women's March on Washington with her mother and her 9-year-old daughter. A self-described Christian liberal from Dover, Pa., she was...

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox on Donald Trump: ‘I’m not going to pay for that f—— wall’

June 21, 2019 at 7:56 p.m.

The former president of Mexico Vicente Fox has a blunt rebuttal to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's plans to build an enormous wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. "I'm not going...

A women prays along the Pope's route near the cathedral in Morelia, Michoacan.

What will Pope Francis talk about during his trip to Mexico?

June 23, 2019 at 8:11 a.m.

While in Mexico for the next five days, Pope Francis is expected to take up issues that have been of central concern to his papacy. The route he will follow...

Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore at the Legislative Building in Carson City, Nev., in 2013.

Who is the gun-toting Nevada lawmaker who helped end the Oregon standoff?

June 20, 2019 at 11:09 a.m.

The armed standoff at an Oregon wildlife refuge appeared to be headed to a violent climax.Four occupiers were sounding increasingly agitated as heavily armed FBI agents inched closer."They're 50 feet...

Cairo's central Tahrir Square, epicenter of an extraordinary 18-day rebellion in 2011, stands mostly empty on Jan. 25, 2016.

Five years after Tahrir Square, activists look back at Egypt’s revolution: ‘Maybe we were naive’

June 20, 2019 at 1:50 p.m.

Five years ago Thursday, Cairo's Tahrir Square erupted in euphoric celebrations as hundreds of thousands of Egyptians danced, cheered, wept and fell to their knees in prayer on the night...

Men are tied together after being detained by the Egyptian army, which said they were transporting drugs. The army took command of the city after police abandoned their positions.

Five years on, Tahrir Square activists look back at Egypt’s revolution: ‘Maybe we were naive’

June 11, 2018 at 6:36 a.m.

Five years ago Thursday, Cairo's Tahrir Square erupted in euphoric celebrations as hundreds of thousands of Egyptians danced, cheered, wept and fell to their knees in prayer on the night...

Kuo Kai-wen, director of Taiwan's Seismology Center, explains the locations from a monitor showing North Korea's first hydrogen bomb test site, on Jan. 6, 2016.

U.N. vows action against North Korea; White House doubts nuclear test claims

June 25, 2019 at 2:55 a.m.

North Korea's claim that it had successfully detonated a hydrogen bomb on Wednesday elicited an angry if familiar chorus of condemnation around the world. But Washington and the international community...

Palestinian protesters sling stones at Israeli soldiers during clashes in the West Bank city of Hebron on Oct. 22, 2015.

What is causing the deadly flare-up between Israelis and Palestinians?

June 20, 2019 at 2:35 p.m.

A rash of near-daily stabbings and other attacks has been sowing panic in Israel and raising fear of another deadly Palestinian uprising. In a sign of how fraught the atmosphere...

Who is Gen. Qassem Suleimani, the man who stumped Trump?

August 18, 2019 at 8:25 p.m.

In an extraordinary exchange on live radio this week, Donald Trump seemed to stumble when he landed in the Middle East. It started when he was asked about Maj. Gen....

French soldiers secure the entrance to a Jewish school in Paris on Jan. 14 as part of the security plan after last week's attacks by Islamist militants.

How France missed a homegrown terrorism plot

May 17, 2019 at 11:55 a.m.

On the streets of Gennevilliers, a working-class suburb north of Paris, residents said there was little indication that a militant bent on warfare on French soil was living in their...

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