Erroneously known as the graveyard of empires, Afghanistan in fact served as the battlefield of the world.

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Hunter Biden, son of former President Joe Biden, commented in a new interview on his father's lax immigration policy as well as his handling of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, which he ...

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Disgraced first son Hunter Biden turned on his father, Joe, in a wide-ranging podcast interview this week, acknowledging that the 46th president’s lax immigration policy and move to pull US forces out ...

The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has been granted full federal recognition after a nearly 140-year effort. This recognition corrects a 1956 act that acknowledged the tribe but denied them federal ...

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Members of the Native American tribe shed tears as it reached the historic milestone in Washington, D.C., this week. Tribal Chairman John L. Lowery witnessed President Trump sign the bill that ...

The U.S. poured billions of dollars into rebuilding Afghanistan for two decades. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with John Sopko, the former Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.

Women have been barred from most public spaces. Afghan citizens are being deported by nearby countries. And marginalized ethnic groups face persecution and violence. These are their stories. On May 8, ...