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The pope urged people to take in refugees from Ukraine. More than 2.5 million people have already fled because of the invasion, according to the United Nations.

New rules in California require the composting of food scraps and yard cuttings. Commercial composting facilities are gearing up to cash in as they turn food scraps into fertilizer and other products.

U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan met with Chinese diplomats in Rome on Monday in what a senior administration adviser described as an "intense" seven-hour session.

Two years ago this month, schools across the country closed because of the pandemic and students switched to remote learning.

There are new street lights in Normal where an Illinois State University student was killed after a vehicle struck her in late November 2021 as she walked across the street at College Avenue and Kingsley Street.

A new report from the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition tallies 1,335 cases of health-care-related violence. We spoke with the coalition chair about the consequences.

Several evacuees from Afghanistan are settling into life in Bloomington-Normal. They are former soldiers who fought the Taliban, serving in the Khost Protection Force, a special unit in the Afghan army stationed in an eastern province bordering Pakistan.

Arooj Aftab has been nominated for two Grammys for her song "Mohabbat." But the singer and songwriter is wary of defining her work too precisely, or letting accolades tell the whole story.

A young Black designer got Ralph Lauren to dedicate a new limited collection to the swanky collegiate style of HBCUs.

ISIS militants now control the long-running black market in stolen artifacts. Experts are tracking damage to heritage sites in Iraq and Syria by satellite and doing what little they can to stop it.