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A woman carries water up a steep hill in the Balukhali Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh. Aid workers say these slopes may collapse in the coming monsoon rains.

Monsoon Rains Could Devastate Rohingya Camps

Rohingya refugees from Myanmar are living in thousands of makeshift shelters on steep, sandy hills in Bangladesh. Humanitarian groups are afraid of what will happen when the monsoons come.

San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer speaks at a press conference alongside a group of police officers, Feb. 5, 2018.

Report: Crime In San Diego Hits Historic Low

Crime in San Diego hit a 49-year low last year, according to an annual report released by Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman Monday.

Rohingya Muslim children, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, wait squashed against each other to receive food handouts distributed to children and women by a Turkish aid agency at Thaingkhali refugee camp, Bangladesh, in October.

AP Investigation Details Shocking Massacre, Mass Graves Of Myanmar Rohingya

The Associated Press interviewed more than two dozen refugees in neighboring Bangladesh, some of whom had time-stamped cellphone videos backing claims of several mass graves.

No Middle Eastern Or North African Category On 2020 Census, Bureau Says

The Census Bureau's announcement about its race and ethnicity questions disappoints advocates who for years have been pushing for a check box for people with roots in the Middle East or North Africa.

Binti's Story Is Finished — But Don't Expect Completion

Nnedi Okorafor winds up her saga of a spacefaring Himba girl from Earth in Binti: The Night Masquerade — but she's warned readers not to expect a neat conclusion, and the book bears out her warning.

By mid-January, there had been nearly 5,000 reported cases of diphtheria in the camps and 33 deaths.

Rare Disease Finds Fertile Ground In Rohingya Refugee Camps

Diphtheria is not seen in the West because almost everyone is vaccinated against it. But it's been infecting thousands of the refugees in Bangladesh.

A new study finds people all over the world are able to differentiate between lullabies and dance songs from cultures they're unfamiliar with.

Lullaby Or Dance Song? Listen To Global Tunes And See If You Can Tell

To find out if music really is a universal language, researchers gave people 14 second samples of songs from around the world and asked them to say what kind of song it is.

Listen And Guess: Can You Tell A Lullaby From A Dance Song?

To see if music really is a universal language, researchers gave people 14 second samples of songs from around the world and asked them to say what kind of song it is.

Children hold signs at a November news conference in Miami in support of renewing temporary protected status for immigrants from Central America and Haiti.

NAACP Sues Trump Administration Over Ending Protected Status For Haitians

Many Haitians in the U.S. have been protected from deportation since a 2010 earthquake, but the DHS says Haiti has improved enough for their return. The NAACP says the decision is racially motivated.

Laptops And Phones In The Classroom: Yea, Nay Or A Third Way?

We asked teachers, professors, a psychiatrist and a technologist for their thoughts, and we heard a range of opinions on one of the most "weirdly divisive" issues in education.

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