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Egypt is getting close to its breaking point
AMMAN, JORDAN — A tuk tuk driver, one of the lowest rungs of Egyptian society, suddenly has a popularity that eclipses the president.As food shortages, a plummeting Egyptian pound, and factory...
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Many people in established democracies have echoed Trump's warning of a...
Do you trust that your vote in the Nov. 8 presidential elections will be counted accurately?If not, then you are one of a substantial number of voters in established democracies on both sides of the...
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Global carbon emissions remain flat, but Trump could threaten that progress
Global carbon dioxide emissions have stayed almost flat for the third year in a row, thanks to a decrease in coal consumption by China and the United States, according to a yearly report by an...
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Iraqi students want to get rid of the 'language of violence' cultivated by ISIS
"One bullet plus two bullets equals how many bullets?"These were the kinds of questions teachers were forced to ask Iraqi students in math class during the militant group known as the Islamic State’s...
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Here's what Jeff Sessions — 'a drug-war dinosaur' — might do to recreational...
After voters approved eight state marijuana ballot initiatives on Election Day, more than half of the 50 states now have laws that permit the drug to be used for medical purposes – and eight now allow...
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Native Americans were raising turkeys long before the first Thanksgiving
Nearly 400 years ago, Pilgrims and native Americans sat down to share a feast that became known as the first Thanksgiving.As the story goes, the meal was a celebration of the colonists' first...
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The Dakota Access Pipeline victory could mark a turning point in climate...
The United States Army blocked construction of a key section of the Dakota Access Pipeline Sunday, marking a monumental – though likely short-term – victory for Native American protesters and thousands...
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Automation doesn't always kill jobs. Sometimes, it adds them.
When the University of Maine at Augusta launched its first noncredit course for commercial drone pilots in October, the seats quickly filled up.Among the 37 students are a cattle rancher, a...
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NASA just unveiled its new climate mission — but Trump could put it at risk
Soon, NASA will be observing plants from a space-bound satellite. That is, unless the Trump administration puts a stop to it.On Tuesday, the space agency announced its first new earth science mission...
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Britain has a new official definition of 'anti-Semitism'
Britain has adopted a new legal definition of anti-Semitism in an attempt to curb hate crimes against Jewish people.The news comes after a rise in reports of anti-Semitic incidents in Britain earlier...
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Radiation plume from Japan’s 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster finally reached...
The radiation plume from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 has finally arrived on the shores of the continental United States.A group of researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution...
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Trump shuns daily intelligence briefings — here's where he gets his advice
Amid the growing controversy over intelligence reports that Russian hackers meddled in US elections to aid Donald Trump's campaign, it's unclear who the president-elect is listening to on matters of...
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One of the world's major fossil-fuel producers is putting a price on carbon
The Canadian government has a new framework to put a price on carbon emissions nationwide – a sign that international momentum to tackle climate change isn’t evaporating despite a possible US...
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How free college transformed this Rust Belt town in Michigan
DECEMBER 17, 2016 KALAMAZOO, MICH.—Tracy Zarei has wanted to teach children ever since she was in the second grade. She knew she would have to go to college to become a teacher.“She was a straight-A...
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Researchers have developed a way to use smartphones to prevent drunk driving
Could your smartphone help prevent drunk driving accidents? Could it determine if you're too intoxicated to get behind the wheel? Does it actually know when you're in a bar?Every year in the US, some...
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Why young people in Europe are absent when it comes to defending a united EU
ANUARY 4, 2017 LISBON, PORTUGAL; AND PARIS—When the European community was under construction in the 1950s, young people played a crucial, unifying role.They protested along the Franco-German border...
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Another sign the US is recovering from the financial crisis — foreclosures...
JANUARY 12, 2017 —In the latest sign that the US economy is regaining stability following the Great Recession, foreclosures hit a 10-year low in 2016, according to a report released Tuesday.The number...
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Here's how Rudy Giuliani will advise Trump on cybersecurity
JANUARY 13, 2017 —Rudy Giuliani, who will be cybersecurity adviser to the incoming president, says Americans are going to hear a lot more from Donald Trump on digital threats against the country.“He’s...
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China's vision of globalization differs sharply from America's
JANUARY 19, 2017 WASHINGTON—It was the moment Chinese President Xi Jinping had been preparing for.With the Western architects of the globalized economy seen to be turning inward and questioning the...
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A new breed of prosecutors are changing the US criminal justice system from...
JULY 17, 2017 CORPUS CHRISTI, TEX.—The new district attorney of Nueces County here in southern Texas strolls around the local courthouse in cowboy boots and a crisp brown suit with a colorful tie and...
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