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Matthew Fred wants Liberia's 16 tribes to all get along.

Matthew Fred Thinks You Shouldn't Judge A Liberian By His Tribe

He was persecuted because some of his own countrymen didn't like the tribe he belongs to. Now the quiet 27-year-old is an anti-tribalism activist.

Pray Over Hot Salt Water, Then Bathe In It: An Anti-Ebola Ritual

This past weekend, the word spread in the middle of the night in Sierra Leone: the way to prevent Ebola is to pray over hot salted water, then bathe in it.

Demonstrators in San Francisco have been protesting outside apartment buildings with units rented through online brokers.

Critics Blame Airbnb For San Francisco's Housing Problems

Some have found that renting on a nightly basis brings a lot more money than long-term leases, but people concerned about a shrinking rental market have turned to legal action and protests.

House Calls Keep People Out Of Nursing Homes And Save Money

In the case of an elderly patient with multiple medical problems, having a team of health workers deliver care to the home can be cheaper than expensive stays in nursing homes and emergency rooms.

Lorchid Macri, 70, says she couldn’t find any information online when she had to find an assisted living facility for her mother in California.

Online Information About Assisted Living Facilities Hard to Come By

Oregon resident Lorchid Macri says she couldn't find any information online when she had to find an assisted living facility for her mother in California.

A woman removes debris from a cafe that was destroyed during fighting between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian militants Aug. 5 in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk, in the region of Donetsk.

Ukraine Forces Near Rebel City As Russia Escalates Border Exercises

Government troops and separatists have been fighting for months for control of eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian leaders say Russia has been supplying the separatists — a charge Moscow denies.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents work at a processing facility in Brownsville,Texas, June 18, 2014.

US Immigration Courts Speed Up Children's Cases

Instead of bumping children to the back of a long line of immigration cases, courts are now giving each child an initial court hearing within three weeks.

Haley Nordine, 19, is spending the entire summer at the Prodesenh center in San Mateo Milpas Altas, Guatemala. The American University student helped build the center's new library.

As Volunteerism Explodes In Popularity, Who's It Helping Most?

More young adults and teens are swapping sun tanning and sightseeing on vacations for working in orphanages, building schools and teaching English abroad.

This is one of the some 55,000 images the former Syrian military police photographer known as Caesar smuggled out of the country between 2011 and 2013. The regime used numbers — written on white cards and sometimes directly on the skin — to identify the dead, which branch of the Syrian government had held them and when they died.

For Two Years, He Smuggled Photos Of Torture Victims Out Of Syria

The ex-military photographer known only as Caesar took some of the images, which show thousands of dead regime opponents. Syria says they're fake; U.S. officials say they may be proof of war crimes.

Lilac Hills Project In North County Nears Public Comment Deadline

Developers of the proposed Lilac Hills Ranch want to build more than 1,700 homes on 608 acres in an area between Valley Center and Bonsall.

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