The history of book bans in the US goes back to 1637 but has recently increased dramatically, nearly 200% during the 2023-24 ...

One place where many try to build new lives is Agadir, a city along Morocco’s Atlantic coast. It isn’t perfect, but there is ...

The International Maritime Organization has vowed to eliminate global shipping emissions to net-zero by 2050. Now, an ...

Hockey is Canada’s most-popular sport. This year, broadcasters are making professional games more accessible than ever before by producing shows with commentators speaking Cree and Inuktitut, two ...

With much of Syria now under the control of rebel group Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, a new battlefield is emerging in the country’s northeast, as Turkish airstrikes target Kurdish-led militias. Turkey says ...

Israel’s security Cabinet has okayed a ceasefire deal with Hamas. But some members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet have threatened to resign and the future of his government remains in ...

Using AI technology to produce child sexual abuse material is a growing problem around the globe. It poses policy issues at the local, state and national level to prevent it at the point of content ...

Remigration” has become a buzzword among far-right lawmakers in Germany and Austria recently. The term is widely understood to mean the mass deportation of people from a migrant background. Just a ...

One of the founding members of the pioneering Afro rock band, Osibisa, Teddy Osei has died at age 88. Hosts Carol Hills and Carolyn Beeler explore the monumental career of this Ghanaian-born ...

Romesh Ranganathan took a circuitous route to comedy. The son of Sri Lankan immigrants in the UK, he taught high school math for about a decade before abandoning it for a full-time career in ...

The Battle of Okinawa in 1945 was one of the bloodiest of World War II. More than 200,000 people were killed during the three months of fighting, more than half of them civilians. Okinawans were ...

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