Alexandra Botti

As debates continue over sexual harassment and assault, France may see something the U.S. is unlikely to experience anytime soon: Criminal fines for catcalling women on the street.

Many residents in Puerto Rico are still without power and water after Hurricane Maria, and are devising creative solutions to keep themselves and their neighbors alive. 

States are responding to opioid crisis with lawsuits, alleging that pharmaceutical companies push prescriptions to a broad range of patients, beyond what FDA has approved. 

Trauma is a complex mental health issue. Survivors of mass shootings experience a range of psychological, emotional, and interpersonal effects in recovery.

After decades of activism, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia lifted a longstanding ban on women driving. Though it's welcomed news to many, women in the Kingdom still lack a variety of rights.

New data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that that the middle class is on the rise in America. Is it time to celebrate? Some say, not so fast.

For the first time in 36 years, a sitting U.S. senator finds himself facing a federal bribery trial: New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez's public corruption trial begins today. 

Deadly mudslides in Sierra Leone have claimed the lives of hundreds of people, as mass flooding swept through the Regent area outside the capital city of Freetown.

Today, Alabama primary voters will select a new candidate that may go on to fill the seat left vacant by Attorney General Sessions, but there's more to this election than meets the eye.

German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon was murdered at Auschwitz and remains largely unknown. But she created an extraordinary set of paintings unlike anything the world had ever seen.

Fearing the outcome and lacking legal representation, Central American asylum-seekers aren't showing up to court, and are being deported in absentia.

On Sunday, Venezuela voted in favor of a controversial new legislative body tasked with rewriting the constitution. At least nine people died protesting the election over the weekend. 

Scientists in Oregon have edited the genes of human embryos for the first time, opening the door to helping babies avoid inherited diseases. But ethical concerns abound.

Foxconn, a major Taiwanese manufacturing company, announced plans to build a factory in Wisconsin yesterday. President Trump is hailing the news as a major personal achievement.

Mohammad Alrefai is a 27-year-old Syrian actor and the lead in a play about the Syrian civil war, called "While I Was Waiting."

Proposed legislation similar to the North Carolina "bathroom bill" is being debated by Texas senators today, and reveals a divide among Texas Republicans. 

The Miami-Dade Public Library System in Florida is offering a digital program called “checkology” to help kids and teens learn to spot fake news.

A group of grandmothers on the outskirts of Mumbai are learning to read and write for the first time, at a school funded by their community.

A mob descended on Venezuela’s opposition-dominated National Assembly on Wednesday.