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Conflict & Justice
US and Russia complete biggest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history
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Rodney Dixon, lawyer for Al Jazeera, third from left, and Lina Abu Akleh, niece of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, second left, answer questions during a press conference
Conflict & Justice
Al Jazeera wants the ICC to do a ‘thorough and independent’ investigation into Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing
A person walks through a parking lot at Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022.
Jobs
Mass Bay Area tech layoffs thrust thousands of H-1B visa holders into frantic job hunt
Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen speaks during a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Justice
US senators demand full White House investigation into shooting of Palestinian American journalist
Nancy Rose, who contracted COVID-19 in 2021 and continues to exhibit long-haul symptoms including brain fog and memory difficulties, pauses while organizing her desk space, on Jan. 25, 2022, in Port Jefferson, New York.
Coronavirus Conversations
Discussion: Long COVID, the search for answers
Workers move a box of freshly caught squid in Pucusana, Peru, Monday, Sept. 20, 2021.
Business, Economics and Jobs
A state-owned company from China is building a massive commercial port in Peru
Newly trained female officers from the Afghan National Army sit in front seats as a new batch of officers attend their graduation ceremony at National Army's training center in Kabul on Sept. 23, 2010. 
Afghanistan
Two decades of war and daily life in Afghanistan
Supporters of the Turkey Youth Union chant slogans during a protest against US President Joe Biden's statement, outside the US consulate in Istanbul, April 26, 2021.
Human rights
Turkey’s Erdoğan calls Biden’s acknowledgment of the Armenian genocide ‘unfounded, unjust, unrealistic’
Group of US generals in army fatigues walk through the street in Afghanistan.
Military
Biden seems ready to extend US troop presence in Afghanistan
American poet Amanda Gorman reads a poem during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the US Capitol in Washington, Jan. 20, 2021.
Biden administration
‘Even as we grieved, we grew’: Poet Amanda Gorman gives powerful performance at inauguration
Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts as Jill Biden holds the Bible during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the US Capitol in Washington, Jan. 20, 2021.
Biden administration
5 major challenges facing Biden on Day One   
President Donald Trump boards Air Force One upon arrival at Valley International Airport on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021, after visiting a section of the border wall with Mexico in Alamo, Texas. 
Trump administration
Trump impeached after Capitol riot; historic second charge
An angry mob storms the US Capitol building.
Extremism
US Capitol attack exposes depth of America’s problem with white extremism
A woman holds a young malnourished child.
Foreign policy
Aid agencies fear impact in Yemen after US terror decision
Trump supporters gesture to US Capitol Police in the hallway outside of the Senate chamber at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021.
QAnon and the storming of the US Capitol: The offline effect of online conspiracy theories
Protesters supporting US President Donald Trump break into the Us Capitol on Jan. 06, 2021, in Washington, DC.
‘Once you engage in political violence, it becomes easier to do it again’ – an expert on political violence reflects on events at the Capitol
A massive protest of women wearing colorful head wraps and masks with signs supporting Karima Mehrab Baloch.
Human rights
Canada urged to investigate the death of Baloch human rights activist 
A supporter of US President Donald Trump waves Israeli and US national flags on the day of the U.S. presidential election, in Carmiel, northern Israel, Nov. 3, 2020.
Foreign policy
Amid US-UAE arms deal and US election, Israelis wonder how balance of power in region might change
A white man wearing a suit talks in a kitchen with Chinese lettering at the bottom of the screenshot.
US-China relations
Amid increasing US-China tensions, humor is serious business
President Donald Trump listens during a phone call Oct. 4, 2020, in his conference room at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
Former CDC head: COVID-19’s spread in White House shows ‘testing does not replace safety measures’
A woman and man wearing elegant evening wear laugh
Culture
National Museum of the American Latino gets closer to becoming a reality
Tianna Spears says she faced racial discrimination by US border officials while working as a US diplomat posted in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
Global Politics
Former US diplomat attests to racial discrimination in diplomatic corps
An African man wearing a suit appears on a video screen with a blue background
Conflict & Justice
Tensions continue in Darfur as Sudanese war criminal faces his day in court
Head in the sand
US politics
How science denial on the political right hampers the US response to COVID-19
US President Donald Trump walks out from the the White House in Washington before his departure to India, Feb. 23, 2020.
Trump White House goes 300+ days without a press briefing — why that’s unprecedented
A video grab of the US Senate
Trump impeachment
Impeachment trial in the Senate: How Trump was acquitted
President Donald Trump departs from a podium, flanked by several officials
Conflict
‘Neither the United States nor Iran wants to go to war,’ says former ambassador
President Trump sits next to Mike Pompeo
Trump impeachment
The president’s action in Ukraine ‘was wrong,’ experts say
A group of people is seen on a mobile staircase at an airport.
Arts, Culture & Media
Metro banned ads for this art exhibition on the immigration crisis, then changed its mind
A man speaks into a microphone
Trump administration
Texas Rep. John Ratcliffe set to replace Dan Coats as US spy chief
White House senior advisor Jared Kushner smiles while listening to US President Donald Trump talk as the president meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 25, 2019.
Foreign policy
Jared Kushner’s peace plan that nobody loves
The motorcade of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo enters the Saudi Royal Court in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Foreign policy
US ‘should’ve done more’ to prevent college student’s execution in Saudi Arabia
Satellite view of the Kharg Island oil export terminal in Iran. Very Large Crude Carriers — "supertankers" — can be seen loading on the sides.
Conflict
Iran may sail around US sanctions with ‘cloaked’ tankers
Mueller
Factbox: Five things to look for in Mueller’s Trump-Russia report
jazz group
‘It was a social revolution’: The Turkish Embassy’s surprising role in desegregating DC jazz
Congressional Representatives-elect Rashida Tlaib, left, and Ilhan Omar, right, will both use Qurans during their ceremonial swearings-in on Jan. 3, 2019.
Immigration
Two reps were sworn in on the Quran. It’s a symbolic moment for Muslim Americans.
President Donald Trump, surrounded by business leaders and administration officials, prepares to sign a memorandum on intellectual property tariffs on high-tech goods from China, at the White House in Washington, March 22, 2018.
Economics
Economists to Trump: You’re dead wrong on tariff revenues
Arts, Culture & Media
Art-O-Mat
Arts, Culture & Media
Painting the Nude
Arts, Culture & Media
Special Guest: Madeleine Albright
Arts, Culture & Media
Commentary: Mr. Smithocracy
Arts, Culture & Media
Gospel Go-Go
Arts, Culture & Media
Painting the Nude
Arts, Culture & Media
Silver Screen vs. The Teleprompter
Arts, Culture & Media
The National Museum of the American Indian
Arts, Culture & Media
Caio Fonseca
Catholic high school students from all over the country attended Friday's "March for Life" event in Washington, DC. This group from Kapaun Mt. Carmel Catholic High School in Wichita, Kansas took buses to be there.
Religion
For some Christians, being ‘pro-life’ isn’t just about being against abortion
Donald Trump hands a five-dollar bill back to a supporter after signing it for her following a rally with sportsmen in Walterboro, South Carolina, Feb. 17, 2016.
Global Politics
Actions, not words, tell Trump’s political money story
A child peers through the double steel fence that separates the US and Mexico, in Tijuana, last month
Global Politics
An activist lobbying for DACA says this week has been a ‘roller coaster of emotions’
A women demanding action by the federal government on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) protests with a group in downtown San Diego.
Conflict
DACA recipients at the center of the spending bill debate in Congress
One of the reported targets of the planned attack: the Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan, in St Petersburg
Global Politics
Russia thanks CIA for tip that thwarted terror attack
Mitch McConnell
Global Politics
There’s not going to be a US government shutdown over DACA, US Senate Republican leader says
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attends the first congress of the country's ruling Workers' Party in 36 years, in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 9, 2016.
Conflict
Where things stand with North Korea
Democratic National Committee Vice Chair Donna Brazile
Global Politics
Smiley: The chattering around Donna Brazile’s new book is ‘much ado about nothing’
Sound of Thunder
Music
A heavy metal band from Virginia went viral in Catalonia
US Marines raise the American flag at half-staff at the US Embassy in Havana, Cuba, on Oct. 2, 2017.
Conflict
US expels Cuban diplomats in the latest threat to US-Cuban relations
National Guard in Puerto Rico
Environment
The US Defense Department takes climate change seriously
Trump
Global Politics
CEOs scolded Trump after Charlottesville. Will corporations close their checkbooks?
Investagators looking into Russia's role in the 2016 election are focusing on the role of Donald Trump's campaign chair and convention manager Paul Manafort.
Justice
Mueller ‘blocking all the escape routes’ for Paul Manafort
LBJ 1965
Conflict
The carrot and the stick: LBJ addresses the nation on the conflict in Vietnam