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Climate and health policies rely on scientific expertise. But the federal science workforce has been shaped by decades of political interference, underfunding and race and gender bias.

Protesters are taking to the streets of Colombia demonstrating against the government's mishandling of the pandemic, and its proposal to raise taxes at a time of deep economic pain.

A very funny machine uprising forces an estranged daughter (Abbi Jacobson) and father (Danny McBride) to save the world — and rebuild their relationship.

In a photo, taken during a firefighters' training drill, a kid gives the camera a knowing look as a house burns in the background. As she graduates college, Zoe Roth auctioned off the photo's rights.

Catalytic converters on the underside of vehicles help reduce emissions. But rising prices for some metals has led to a jump in them being stolen, and some unique theft prevention methods.

The number of new COVID-19 cases in India has hit another record. Now the State Department is urging Americans to leave.

A schoolteacher in Jacksonville, Fla., was disciplined after she put a Black Lives Matter flag up outside her classroom and refused administrators' orders to take it down. Now the case is in court.

During the Great Migration, almost six million Black Americans moved across the U.S., changing the course of American history. Isabel Wilkerson shares what we can learn from these migration stories.

Much of our ancestral histories can be found in our bones. Archaeologist Carolyn Freiwald traces the story of human migration through the hidden clues in our bones and our teeth.

At least 45 people were killed and some 150 injured in a crush at the gathering of ultra-Orthodox Jews in northern Israel, where tens of thousands had convened.

Irish comedian Maeve Higgins moved to the U.S. with a visa for artists with "extraordinary abilities." But the myth of the "good immigrant," she says, perpetuates harm and discrimination.

In an interview with NBC, the president addressed a critique by the South Carolina senator by saying the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow continues to leave Black Americans "behind the eight ball."