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Stephen Maturen/Getty Images North America An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday, according to federal [...]

President Trump is again floating the idea of annexing Greenland, the semiautonomous Arctic island that is a territory of Denmark. Greenland’s location between North [...]

After a two week chase, U.S. forces have seized a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the north Atlantic between Iceland and Britain. The tanker was originally bound for Venezuela, [...]

José A. Alvarado Jr. for NPR The last few days have been full of emotions for Sebastian, a 28-year-old Venezuelan architect who lives in Miami. Sebastian, who asked to be [...]

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In over a decade of strolling through my favorite Parisian park, I never noticed it. A real California sequoia — here in the Parc des Buttes Chaumont. The park, a former [...]

Scientists studying the way ant colonies defend against disease have discovered a surprising strategy: Young ants who become terminally ill will send out an altruistic [...]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Protesters angry over Iran’s ailing economy conducted a sit-in Tuesday at Tehran’s Grand Bazaar, witnesses said, with security [...]

WASHINGTON — CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who betrayed Western intelligence assets to the Soviet Union and Russia in one of the most damaging intelligence breaches in U.S. [...]

A golden phone that President Donald Trump’s family business promised to release last year remains mysteriously under wraps as the technology industry serves up a glut [...]