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Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the world and will replace Christianity as the world’s most popular faith, according to an analysis by Pew Research Center.

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HARI SREENIVASAN: But first: With stepped-up enforcement along the U.S.-Mexican border, there is more anxiety among immigrant communities that families members with different status might be separated.

In New Mexico, one small bi-national community along the border is working hard to keep families connected through schools.

From Public Media’s Fronteras desk and PBS station KRWG, Simon Thompson, originally from Australia, brings us this report. Читать дальше...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Suspected jihadists have attacked two communities in Burkina Faso's north while an international film festival takes place in the capital of the West African nation, authorities said Tuesday.

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Suspected jihadists have attacked two communities in Burkina Faso's north while an international film festival takes place in the capital of the West African nation, authorities said Tuesday.

The L.A. City Council has voted against granting historic status to the 1939 Bob and Dolores Hope estate after a heated battle that pitched daughter Linda Hope against Councilman David Ryu.

An experimental gene therapy that turns a patient's own blood cells into cancer killers worked in a major study, with more than one-third of very sick lymphoma patients showing no sign of disease six months after a single treatment, Kite Pharma Inc. said Tuesday.

The order instructs both departments to formally reconsider the Water of the United States rule or WOTUS, NBC News reports.

The Magpies were staring defeat in the face at the Amex Stadium, only to stage a late turnaround to move back to the top of the Championship table

When Stephen Hill, a police sergeant in Louisville, Kentucky, arrived at a McDonald’s parking lot in response to a call about a suspected drug overdose, he found a young man, his lips purple, slumped in the front seat of a car, clearly in respiratory distress. The man’s frantic girlfriend had told the emergency dispatcher that her boyfriend had taken heroin. His breathing was shallow, and the clock was ticking.

The iPhone 8 rumor mill is abuzz after a recent report from the The Wall Street Journal, which suggests the 2017 flagship will feature a USB-C. Responses to the report have been mixed, with some pundits heralding the idea, while other analysts don’t believe Apple would make such a change.

Fort McCoy's role as the "Total Force Training Center" continues as the installation prepares to support Operation Cold Steel − a new Army Reserve live-fire exercise that begins Saturday, March 4 and runs through April 29.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Tony Gwynn Jr. will join the San Diego Padres' broadcast team as an analyst for FOX Sport San Diego's pregame and postgame shows on television as well as an analyst during select radio broadcasts on the…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Tony Gwynn Jr. will join the San Diego Padres' broadcast team as an analyst for FOX Sport San Diego's pregame and postgame shows on television as well as an analyst during select radio broadcasts on the…

AMES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa group has devised a strategy to keep monarch butterflies off the national endangered species list.

Tombstones were found toppled at 2 Jewish cemeteries within one week.

THOMASVILLE, N.C. — Police in North Carolina say they have arrested two parents after their 2-year-old child was found walking along a road alone. Local media outlets report a passer-by stopped to help the child, but no one answered the door at the child’s Thomasville home, about 20 miles southeast of Winston-Salem. When Thomasville police

The incident occurred Tuesday while President Francois Hollande was inaugurating a new fast train line

In a “Dr. Phil” interview due to air on Wednesday, Cassidy, whose mother also suffered from the degenerative brain disease, revealed to host Phil McGraw that he told his son,I want you to promise me you’ll find a way to let me go and don’t let me live like that, so that the singer doesn’t succumb to the disease like his mother did. Cassidy, who earlier this month struggled to remember lyrics to songs he has been performing for decades and staggered off the stage during a concert in Agoura Hills... Читать дальше...

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A veteran public school teacher coaxed four students into stealing from the city - and then split the profits, officials said Tuesday.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions became the second member of the Trump administration in less than a week to provide “alternative facts” and backward analysis when it comes to marijuana.

JACK BEZANTS: David Haye says the animal inside him 'is a little more refined now'. It is easier to believe when he is not staring into the whites of Tony Bellew's eyes.

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Remember all those crazed Pokemon Go seekers that roamed our city streets, crowded our public parks or ventured into rural areas in search of virtual-reality pocket monsters popping up on their smartphones? Look at the top grossing apps on Google Play and Apple and check the charts, then form your own opinion, Hanke told The Associated Press Tuesday after his keynote speech at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Most people associate augmented-reality smartphone apps with Pokemon Go... Читать дальше...

Hundreds of protesters showed up at the grand opening.

The grand opening of the newest Trump Tower, located in downtown Vancouver, drew scores of protesters on Tuesday who denounced the president's policies.

According to media reports, more than a hundred protesters showed up to make clear the Trump name was not welcome in Vancouver. Many local politicians skipped the grand opening, which was attended by three of the president's children.

“Vancouver is truly one of the great cities in the world... Читать дальше...

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Weight Watchers shares surged by as much as 15% in after-hours trading on Tuesday after the company beat on earnings and its outlook for the year.

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• Tesla reports smaller loss than expected, beats on revenues
• First Solar tanks after huge restructuring charge
• Garmin spikes after a huge earnings beat

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