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President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski of Peru announced his resignation on Wednesday amid a swirling bribery scandal. 

A former student leader of the 1968 Howard University takeover recalls what happened 50 years ago when students shut down the institution in protest for days.

Why has Britain's response to the attempted assassination of Russian double agent Sergei Skripal appeared so tentative?

Several state legislatures have passed or are considering gun control measures after last month’s mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Is this a turning point?

Voters in Texas headed to the polls on Tuesday in the nation’s first statewide primaries in the 2018 midterm election season.

Many important safety rules for cars, trains, airplanes, commercial buses, trucks, and more have been rolled back or sidelined under President Trump’s direction, an investigation finds.

New images appear to show that Myanmar authorities have destroyed at least 55 abandoned Rohingya villages. Human rights groups say the locations should be treated as crime scenes. 

College students who were protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program face an uneasy time with Congress still hesitating to act.

As violence against Syrian civilians continues, one journalist give her perspective on what it means to be Syrian and see your home come apart at the seams.

As humans, we are typically good about responding to immediate threats we can see, but issues like climate change can be more difficult to grasp.

A Palestinian refugee who has lived in Gaza her whole life, explains the daily challenges that she and her family are facing as a humanitarian crisis deepens.

Kenya has been in turmoil after three of the country’s largest privately-owned television stations were shut down by the government last week and forced to remain off air for days.  

Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló discusses his plan to focus on charter schools as part of an effort to overhaul the island's public education system.

Some officials in Puerto Rico think FEMA's decision is premature, since an estimated 1 million people still remain without power and roughly 118,000 don’t have access to clean water.

The case of former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar has raised questions for parents about whom to trust with the care of child athletes.

Thousands of illicit massage parlors operate across the country, generating billions of dollars, but prosecuting the suspected sex traffickers who run them can be difficult.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been targeting people living here illegally with criminal records, but a series of arrests of prominent immigrant activists has raised questions.

Yemen is suffering from the worst hunger crisis in the world, but a port used to bring in much needed food and supplies could be closed by Friday.

Increasingly tougher sanctions from the United Nations, the United States, the European Union, and others have failed to persuade Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons program.

What might a mass mobilization effort in support of the poor look like in 2018? The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. provided a blueprint 50 years ago that still inspires today.