* An estimated 20,000 foreign fighters have traveled to Iraq and Syria to join IS, including 150 from the US. * Obama to withdraw most troops from West Africa and declare the five-month Ebola effort a success. * Trumpeting supremacy clause Obama confident Supreme Court will raise LGBT rights to a
* Controversy reignites over Italy's end of search and rescue after 29 migrants die aboard a coast guard boat. * Bulging with immigrants and without jobs for the young, Eastern Europe's economies need to make up ground. * Since 2006 a North Carolina state agency—the only of its
Where there’s smoke, there’s smuggling. Before the Ukrainian border became a dangerous war zone, it was a profitable bootlegging arena.
Over seven years, an artist watches a beloved forest suffer a “massive tree mortality event,” then gradually recover and become something new. The result: a lesson in entropic beauty.
* Defying federal law, Alabama Chief Justice orders judges not to award marriage licenses to same-sex couples. * Leaders will convene in Minsk to iron out differences driving Ukraine conflict; solution could include a DMZ. * In "Grexit" drama, internal opposition girds Greece's finance minister against easy answers
* Rebels, Ukrainian authorities agree to allow civilian evacuation from the current fighting in eastern Ukraine. * The first pope to address Congress, Francis will wield authority over the core of modern American political debate. * MLK's mother was also assassinated—like other black women leaders she's left out
* According to a former Al Qaeda operative, US partner Saudi Arabia had a strong alliance with the terrorist group prior to 9/11. * Ukraine’s war enters its deadliest period since September's nominal ceasefire. * Netanyahu and Boehner's decision to cook up a speech to Congress behind
Because the blinders were on last year, a 2015 resolution to become more culturally aware: to read more books, watch more movies, and listen to more albums.
In the last 25 years, more than two dozen new countries have been recognized by the international community. But secession isn’t easy, as Somaliland’s success story proves.
* Murdered Argentinian prosecutor had drafted an arrest order for President Kirchner, but hadn't yet delivered it. * Uber says it's helping to reduce drunk driving, but there's little evidence to support that claim. * Jordanian pilot killed by ISIS may have died a month ago—making
