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Muhammad Yunus, an economist and founder of the global microfinance movement, became a Nobel laureate for founding the nonprofit Grameen Bank, which helps poor people escape poverty by providing loans on terms suitable to the clients, and teaching them sound financial principles.

Bishop Thomas Paprocki is telling priests in his diocese not to offer sacraments to people in same-sex marriages. A Catholic LGBT group calls the decree "mean-spirited and unchristian in the extreme."

Social media firms are under pressure to block extremist activity on their sites. Facebook is hiring thousands more people to review content, but artificial intelligence also plays a role.

Social media firms are under pressure to block extremist activity on their sites. Facebook is hiring thousands more people to review content, but artificial intelligence also plays a role.

First she was shot at on the way to work. Then her house was destroyed by a bomb. That didn't deter this woman scientist.

How the members of Algiers — four musicians in three cities on two continents — made an album for a world as divided and unsettled as they are

Airs Friday, July 12, 2019 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2

Aravena, 48, is known for his socially conscious, sustainable design, often executed at staggering speed and on minuscule budgets.

In his new book, journalist Tom Ricks explains how the conservative British politician and the leftist author of 1984 challenged their respective political parties.

Surgery that severs the link between brain hemispheres reveals that those halves have way different views of the world. We ask a pioneering scientist what that tells us about human consciousness.