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Assessing Hillary Clinton's New Plan to Stop Gun Violence
With a new set of policy proposals, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is trying to change the tired national narrative around gun violence.
Angy Rivera's Journey to 'Coming Out' as an Undocumented Immigrant
The 24-year-old activist, who has been advising other immigrants for five years, is the subject of a new PBS documentary.
A Handy Travel Guide for the Pope on His First Visit to the US
If you only have five days in America, and you're the Pope, here's what you should do.
The Long, Dangerous March South Asian Migrants Make Through South America to Get to the US
Thousands of people from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Nepal are traveling up to 10,000 miles from as far south as Argentina – a treacherous trip that can take anywhere from three to six months.
The Twisted Legacy of Colombia's Aerial Cocaine Crop Spraying Programme
Over the last 21 years, the secretive and controversial US-backed drug war effort dumped weaponised herbicide on 4.3 million acres of land.
We Visited the Clothes Store in Kosovo That's Dedicated to Hillary Clinton's Style
"Hillary" is near Bill Clinton Boulevard and it's packed full of pantsuits.
This Non-profit Wants to Turn Corpses into Compost
Traditional burial is an unnatural process that uses a lot of land, and cremation releases carbon into the atmosphere – Katrina Spade thinks there's a better way to deal with dead bodies.
Boobs, Skulls and Mickey Mouse: The Naive Art of Hardened Mexican Prisoners
Paños basically show that even the most hardened criminals make their mother a hand-drawn card on Mother's day.
The FBI Says It Stopped a 20-Year-Old's Terrorist Plot to Attack the US Capitol
The homegrown terrorist plot was foiled just a week after the Charlie Hebdo massacre.
Photos of Kids Playfully Crossing the US-Mexico Border
Recently a storm took out a chain link fence separating the two countries at a park bisecting Tijuana and San Diego, letting people jump back and forth between nations.
Did North Korea Launch a Cyberattack on Sony Because It Hates Seth Rogen?
There's a case to be made for the involvement of Kim Jong-un's troops, given the regime's beef with the new James Franco-Seth Rogen buddy assassination drama The Interview.
We're Still Not Even Close to Saving the Planet After the Largest Climate Summit Ever
Global elites are still hesitant to go all-in on averting disaster.