In February, the US deported nearly 300 asylum-seekers to Panama. Most of the deportees had come to the US not from Panama, ...

New York, among other cities around the globe, has been the epicenter of virtuosic cantorial performance of Jewish liturgy ...

A UCSD researcher has spent years studying the language acquisition of cats and dogs in 47 countries. You may have seen some of his research on TikTok where animals learn to hit buttons that play ...

April 19th marks the 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord, the famous ‘shot heard “round the world.” The start of the American war of independence happened against a global ...

Kristian Jamieson, a dental student in Ontario, Canada, has spent the past few years working toward a major goal of running the Boston Marathon. His dream is about to come true. But for Jamieson, the ...

Xi Jinping wraps up his tour this week through Southeast Asia where he’s been presenting China as a force for stability and mutual prosperity, in contrast to President Donald Trump’s trade policies.

Saudi Arabia has been pouring billions of dollars into the electric vehicle industry in the past few years. It has even been working on its own brand of EV called Ceer. Just this month, Tesla began ...

Surp Giragos is the largest Armenian church in the Middle East, and it’s at least 500 years old. But the community it serves has dwindled to just a handful of Armenian families in the predominantly ...

The Trump administration continued its bombing campaign against the Houthis, this time targeting a strategically important oil port. It’s also the bloodiest attack on Yemen to date. But, the exact ...

Climate change is reshaping the global map of wine production. A new report on fine winds finds some varieties currently at home in southern Europe could be more common in northern England by the end ...

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Shelters are nearly empty, and local humanitarian groups are scrambling to survive. The new reality is a stark reflection of ...