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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has drawn attention after invoking Islamic history while speaking about migration, using a religious reference to frame a broader argument for compassion and refuge ...

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In Guatemala’s presidential runoff in August 2023, political outsider Bernardo Arévalo de León won 58 percent of the vote, beating establishment candidate and former First Lady Sandra Torres. The ...

Every November, around the Day of the Dead, millions of monarch butterflies descend on a forest of oyamel firs in the mountains of central Mexico. The butterflies have never seen the forest before, ...