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International

Pumpjacks work in a New Mexico field. (Charlie Riedel/AP)
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Politics & Policy

Oil prices hit a new low. Here’s why that might be a bad thing

The cost of a barrel dropped below $60, a decrease of more than 20 percent from its peak last month.

7 years ago

Jordanian troops took part in an international hostage rescue exercise in Amman, with other allied forces. A U.S. group focuses on helping the families of hostages before and after their recovery. (Raad Adayleh/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Aid group for hostages’ families seeks to help through ‘lonely experience’

Every year, some 200 Americans are taken hostage somewhere around the world.

7 years ago

Ari Miller serves fresh pita bread to accompany hummus at the Culinary Literacy Center at the Central Parkway Free Library. (Kyrie Greenberg for WHYY)
Community

Dishes we carry in our hearts: Ethnic food in Philadelphia

A event timed to Thanksgiving started after the 2016 election "as a way for us to start different kinds of conversations around immigration,” says one organizer.

7 years ago

An image shows the paintings stolen from the Netherlands' Kunsthal museum in 2012 — including Picasso's Tête d'Arlequin at bottom right. Two Dutch citizens claim to have found the missing Picasso work, Romanian prosecutors said on Sunday. (Daniel Mihailescu/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

6 years after museum heist, missing Picasso possibly found in Romania

A painting by Pablo Picasso that was stolen from a Dutch museum six years ago may have resurfaced in Romania, prosecutors say.

7 years ago

In this July, 5, 2018, file photo, a rubber tire gantry operator climb steps to his cab at the start of his work shift at the Port of Savannah in Savannah, Ga. (Stephen B. Morton/AP Photo)
Money

Darkening clouds start to overhang global economic expansion

After galloping along for the past two years, the global economy is showing signs of weakening.

7 years ago

President Trump says the U.S. will remain a
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Politics & Policy

Trump says U.S. will remain ‘steadfast partner’ of Saudis, despite Khashoggi killing

"Maybe he did and maybe he didn't," Trump said of the crown prince's knowledge of the killing.

7 years ago

(Malaka Gharib)
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Community

Turkey and tamales: People of color share their multicultural Thanksgivings

7 years ago

People wait in line outside the San Ysidro Port of Entry, between Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego, Calif., in October.
NPR
Politics & Policy

Federal court blocks Trump administration’s asylum ban

The court said Trump's asylum ban violates existing law and would cause irreparable harm to immigrants.

7 years ago

A migrant child sits outside a tent, taking shelter at the Jesus Martinez stadium in Mexico City, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Humanitarian aid converged around the stadium in Mexico City where thousands of Central American migrants winding their way toward the United States were resting Tuesday after an arduous trek that has taken them through three countries in three weeks. (Marco Ugarte/AP Photo)
Community

Quaker relief worker recounts helping migrants in caravan get through Mexico

A member of the Philadelphia-based American Friends Service Committee recounts her experiences doing relief work with the caravan of migrants passing through Mexico.

7 years ago

A man holds a poster showing images of Saudi Crown Prince Muhammed bin Salman and of journalist writer Jamal Khashoggi, describing the prince as
Politics & Policy

Trump on Khashoggi death tape: ‘No reason for me to hear it’

''I know everything that went on in the tape without having to hear it."

7 years ago

Demonstrators hold placards in London on Friday. (Alastair Grant/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Here’s what you need to know about Brexit after a tumultuous week in the U.K.

The tentative deal triggered the resignation of two of May’s cabinet secretaries.

7 years ago

Alyssa Edling, center, and Thomas Malia, second from right, both with PEN America, join others as they hold signs of missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi, during a news conference about his disappearance in Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018, in front of The Washington Post in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Politics & Policy

Official: U.S. intel says prince ordered Khashoggi killing

The Saudi government has denied the claim.

7 years ago

In this photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018, a weight is set up at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, in Sevres, near Paris. The golf ball-sized metal cylinder at the heart of the world's system for measuring mass is heading into retirement. Gathering this week in Versailles, west of Paris, governments on Friday Nov. 16, 2018, are expected to approve a plan to instead use a scientific formula to define the exact weight of a kilo. (Christophe Ena/AP Photo)
Science

Take a weight off: Tears, joy as kilo gets historic update

"We put in place a system that doesn't depend on something that is 140 years old."

7 years ago

Khieu Samphan, (left), former Khmer Rouge head of state, stands at the dock in a court room during a hearing at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Friday. (Nhet Sok/AP/Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia)
NPR
Courts & Law

Verdict on Khmer Rouge leaders is first to officially acknowledge regime’s genocide

The last two surviving leaders of Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970s were found guilty Friday by an international tribunal.

7 years ago

The European Union's highest court has ruled that a food's taste can't be copyrighted. Here, people shop for cheese in Gouda, Netherlands, in 2015. (Tim Graham/Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

There’s no copyrighting taste, rules EU court in Dutch cheese case

7 years ago

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