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

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

Tom Longboat was the Boston Marathon’s first Indigenous champion back in 1907. Today, his great-great-grandson, Kristian ...

The Tijuana River watershed straddles both sides of the US-Mexico border. For decades, economic policies have promoted ...

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

As Haiti celebrates 200 years of independence from France, Thursday marks a particularly fraught anniversary. On April 17, ...

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 ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek has covered a lot of ground: some 14,000 miles — on foot — through 21 countries so ...

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 ...

A federal court in Denver has found a former member of Gambia’s military guilty of torturing five people accused of ...

Tuesday marks two years since civil war broke out in Sudan. Fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support ...

Journalist Sarah Allely was knocked off her bike by a wrong-way driver in 2015. The experience left her with a traumatic ...