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Kalida Akytkhan, pictured with her son Parkhat Rakhymbergen, has two sons and two daughter-in-laws who have been detained in re-education camps in Xinjiang. She brought photos of her family to the offices of rights organization Atazhurt in Almaty.

Families Of The Disappeared: A Search For Loved Ones Held In China's Xinjiang Region

A Kazakh rights organization has collected more than 1,000 testimonies from ethnic Kazakhs and Uighurs whose families have disappeared into a network of internment camps in Xinjiang.

In France, Trump And Others Commemorate The End Of World War I

President Trump joined French President Macron and 71 other world leaders to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI. Trump appeared out of step with the ceremony's multilateral tone.

State Attorneys General Want Whitaker To Recuse Himself From Mueller Probe

Rachel Martin talks to Maura Healey of Massachusetts, who is one of 18 attorneys general, calling on acting-U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker to recuse himself from overseeing the Russia probe.

"Our data suggests that something about baking seems to be changing the hands of the people who do the baking," says ecologist Rob Dunn.

Sourdough Hands: How Bakers And Bread Are A Microbial Match

In Robert Dunn's new book, Never Home Alone, he explores our symbiotic relationship with food: Not only do we impact the bacteria in our food, but the microbes in our food imprint our bodies.

Rohingya Hindu refugees stand outside their makeshift shelters at the Kutupalong refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, in January. Bangladesh and Myanmar plan to begin the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled from violence in Myanmar.

Rohingya Repatriation Set To Begin, As Amnesty Revokes Award To Aung San Suu Kyi

A long-planned deportation of refugees from Bangladesh back to Myanmar is set to begin this week. Rohingya are reportedly fleeing refugee camps to avoid being sent back to the country they escaped.

Attorney for Broward's elections department and Gov. Rick Scott's senate campaign agreed with a judge's order to put three extra law enforcment officers at the elections office.

Attorneys For Broward Elections Office And Rick Scott Reach Compromise On Security

A Broward County judge on Monday ordered three additional law enforcement officers to oversee the county’s ballot tabulation process and called for an...

Rezoning Of Shipyards Area Property Going Before City Council

The city of Jacksonville is taking steps to prepare part of the Downtown Northbank for redevelopment. Three pieces of legislation are scheduled to be…

Q&A With Duval County District 2 School Board-Elect Elizabeth Andersen

Elizabeth Andersen, a former teacher turned therapist, was elected to the school board for Duval County’s 2nd District on Tuesday. She beat Nick Howland…

Why Is Miami-Dade So Far Ahead Of Broward County's Recount?

It was noon on Monday and Miami-Dade County was about halfway done with its ballot recount for last week’s elections. Yet next door, in Broward County,...

An Israeli soldier stands near a burning bus that was hit by a mortar shell fired from Gaza on Monday.

Violence Flares After Israeli Operation In Gaza Turns Deadly

Sunday's operation in the Gaza Strip left one Israeli and seven Palestinians dead. A day later, Israel and militants in Gaza traded hundreds of rockets and mortar shells.

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