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If it didn't hashtag, did it really happen? We look back on the trendiest hashtags in global development in 2015.

Fifty-seven people received payments totaling $5.5 million. "Reparations is not a necessity. But it is a moral compunction and a moral reckoning to right a wrong," said Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

Supporters of "smart" gun technology hope that President Obama's initiative will prompt federal agencies to put in big purchase orders, unleashing the new market. Will it make us safer?

Cellphone video showed Michael Slager shooting an unarmed black man in the back last year in North Charleston, S.C. He was charged with murder and initially denied bail. Now he's out on $500,000 bond.

Onondaga County Legislature Chairman Ryan McMahon was already in the midst of learning about the connection between deer and Lyme disease last summer,…

Some in the community of Burns, Ore., welcome the attention on long-running conflict between ranchers and the federal government. Others question the out-of-town militants' tactics and goals.

The choice of the young Indian-American governor fuels speculation that she could be a possible vice presidential pick. But the high-profile slot hasn't been kind to other rising stars in the past.

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is barnstorming across Iowa, where his appeal to evangelical voters is making him a threat to GOP front-runner Donald Trump in the first caucus state.

One special operations soldier was killed and two others were wounded in a firefight in Afghanistan. A Pentagon spokesman insists that U.S. soldiers are there to "train, advise and assist."

Slovakia has never been particularly welcoming to migrants and it resisted the most recent influx to Europe. Those who came a generation ago say they are still often seen as outsiders.