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In a rare political post-presidency statement, former President Barack Obama called for tighter gun laws after the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton. "We are not helpless here," he said.

2020 Democratic presidential candidates have been swift to condemn the recent shootings. But in their calls, there's something new: they're not just talking about gun reform, but also white supremacy.

Former Holocaust refugees and their families were among the speakers at an event honoring the 75th anniversary of nearly 1,000 refugees arriving from…

Several of the victims in El Paso's mass shooting were Mexican citizens. Many in neighboring Juarez, Mexico, are shocked at what they see as a terrorist attack targeting people for their nationality.

Rep. John Katko (R-Camillus) said Monday, following two mass shootings that left more than 30 dead and dozens more injured, said something needs to be…

An international consortium planning the Thirty Meter Telescope still prefers to site it atop the Big Island's Mauna Kea. But local protests may drive the project to the Canary Islands.

Carrie Brownstein joins the All Songs gang to chat about relentless earworms, annoying novelty songs and other songs our hosts think of as quite possibly the worst of all time

Turkey's hosting of millions of Syrian refugees has generated a backlash, and the government says too many are living in Istanbul. Some have been ordered to leave within two weeks.

A woman at a filling station in Kansas thought some kind of nature show was playing on the video screen above her pump. Then she realized it was an actual snake behind the screen.

Speaking in the capital, a spokesman for China's Hong Kong affairs office said protesters will be "held accountable" and said that Beijing had "tremendous power" to put down the protests.