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Barrels of fish sit on a dock after being unloaded from a boat in Songkhla, Thailand, in February 2016.

Was Your Seafood Caught With Slave Labor? New Database Helps Retailers Combat Abuse

Many seafood lovers use the Monterey Bay Aquarium's ratings to choose sustainable fish. Now it has rolled out a tool to help corporations assess the risk of human trafficking in seafood supply chains.

The companies have formed a coalition to try to stop traffickers from trading in endangered species and items from wildlife such as ivory.

21 Tech Companies Band Together Against Wildlife Trafficking

The effort involves tech leaders such as Alibaba, Baidu, eBay, Facebook and Instagram who have pledged to try to reduce trafficking across their platforms by 80 percent by 2020.

Pakistani women held a public march in Karachi to mark International Women's Day — and call for justice.

Women In Pakistan Dared To March — And Didn't Care What Men Thought

The women marchers shouted slogans: "Women are here, harassers must fear!" Male bystanders gaped and shook their heads. It was a milestone event.

City Puts Up 'Big Blue Frame' At Park — And Removes It After Citizens Put Up A Fight

The frame was taken down just days after it was erected in Garden of the Gods, in Colorado Springs, Colo. It was meant to add pizazz to photos; instead, it sparked outrage.

At a recent National LGBTQ Task Force conference in Washington D.C., Luis Felipe Cebas (right) from Whitman-Walker Health, talks with Sarah Fleming about PrEP, the pre-exposure drug that can help protect against HIV infection.

PrEP Campaign Aims To Block HIV Infection And Save Lives In D.C.

PrEP is shorthand for a pill that prevents HIV infection, if taken daily. As Washington, D.C. aims to cut new infections in half by 2020, it hopes to quadruple the number of residents on the medicine.

A car dashcam captures a view of a meteor near Bloomfield Hills, Mich., on Tuesday in this still image from video obtained from social media.

Bright Light, Sonic Boom As Meteor Streaks Across Southern Michigan

The space rock punched through the clouds near Detroit just after 8 p.m. with a boom that shook houses and registered magnitude 2.0 on U.S. Geological Survey instruments.

Ahed Tamimi, then 16, stands for a hearing in the military court at Ofer military prison on Jan. 1. She accepted a plea bargain and is to be released in July, her lawyer said.

Palestinian Teen Agrees To 8 Months In Prison After Slapping Israeli Soldier

Video of Ahed Tamimi's confrontation with Israeli soldiers went viral. Many Palestinians consider her a symbol of defiance, while many Israelis see her instead as a provocateur.

Chinese President Xi Jinping earlier this month waits for British Prime Minister Theresa May ahead of a meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing. Xi is coming to the end of his first term and is expected to be appointed to a second term in March.

China Proposes Lifting Presidential Term Limit

Currently, Chinese President Xi Jinping can serve no more than two terms. But China has proposed dropping term limits for presidents, which would allow Xi to stay in power for more than 10 years.

President Trump's Twitter account was down for about 11 minutes early this month.

Man Who Deactivated Trump's Twitter Account: 'I Didn't Break Any Rules'

TechCrunch has tracked down the former Twitter employee who claims to be responsible for the famous 11-minute outage. He's a 20-something from Germany who says it was all just a mistake.

10 Education Stories You May Have Missed This Summer

The school shootings that weren't; a student loan watchdog quits; the number of chronically absent students is on the rise; and the top high school play and musical.

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