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Bedouin Burger: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

The Middle Eastern duo's music marries traditional Arab sounds of magam, religious songs of ancient Syria, jazz, and slick pop hooks.

A satellite image taken by a Japanese weather satellite shows an undersea volcano eruption at the Pacific nation of Tonga on Saturday.

An undersea cable fault could cut Tonga from the rest of the world for weeks

Amid the 7.6-magnitude quake, the single fiber optic cable that the archipelago relied on for global communications ruptured.

California is suing Tesla after a three-year investigation in which the state says it found racial discrimination against Black workers at Tesla's plant in Fremont, Calif.

California sues Tesla over alleged rampant discrimination against Black employees

California's Department of Fair Employment and Housing said in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that Black employees at Tesla's Fremont plant in the state have faced racism and harassment.

Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson listens to a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee during her confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.

GOP questions for Jackson in her hearings were about midterm messaging — 4 takeaways

If Biden's Supreme Court nominee gets any GOP votes, it's pretty clear by the bitterness displayed during her confirmation hearing they likely won't come from Republicans on the Judiciary Committee.

Stephen Ayres (L), who entered the U.S. Capitol illegally on January 6, 2021, confers with Jason Van Tatenhove (R), who served as national spokesman for the Oath Keepers and as a close aide to Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, prior to their testimony during the seventh hearing by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday afternoon.

Live updates: Jan. 6 rioter, former Oath Keepers spokesman testify in seventh hearing

Tuesday's hearing looks at the role of groups like the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys on the Jan. 6 Capitol attack — and the groups' possible connection to former President Donald Trump.

The U.S. is telling its citizens to leave Ukraine now, citing "increased threats of Russian military action." Because of the tensions, regular Ukrainians are taking lessons on using weapons and survival training — like this man who was instructed on shooting Thursday by a member of the Georgian National Legion paramilitary volunteer unit.

Biden tells U.S. citizens to leave Ukraine, saying military wouldn't rescue them

"That's a world war — when Americans and Russians start shooting at one another, we're in a very different world than we've ever been in."

"I am disturbed that victims who have the courage to undergo an invasive examination to help identify their perpetrators are being treated like criminals rather than supported as crime victims," District Attorney Chesa Boudin said earlier this week.

San Francisco DA drops charges against woman linked to crime through rape victim DNA

The district attorney's office said the case violated the woman's Fourth Amendment rights and called the police department's use of the alleged victim's DNA, "illegal."

A man walks with a bicycle on a street damaged by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, earlier this month.

What the city of Mariupol means for Ukraine — and for Russia's military campaign

After a relentless assault by Russian forces, Ukraine appears close to defeat in Mariupol. Why is the city so important? The reasons range from geographic and strategic to economic and psychological.

Nofa Khudeda (left) and a neighbor in the village of Tel Qasab on the day Khudeda and her husband returned after six years in a camp for displaced Yazidis. Khudeda and her husband, Ali Edo, repaired and renovated the house, which had been looted by ISIS fighters and then militias that fought ISIS.

With No Options, Displaced Iraqi Yazidis Return To Homes Destroyed In ISIS Fight

Thousands of Yazidis who were in displacement camps in northern Iraq's Kurdistan Region have returned to Sinjar. "It's a beautiful feeling to be home," says a Yazidi woman who recently arrived.

Activision Blizzard is behind such successful franchises as Call of Duty and Candy Crush. It is being acquired by Microsoft.

Microsoft set to acquire the gaming company Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion

Activision Blizzard is behind huge games such as Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Candy Crush. But the company has faced reports of a workplace culture rife with sexual harassment.

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