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Map: Exploring the World is a new collection of maps, selected by an international panel of cartographers, academics and collectors, spanning everything from the Aztecs to modern digital imaging.

The judge said DeSantis overstepped his authority when he ordered schools not to require masks for students. COVID-19, especially the delta variant, is spreading rapidly across the Florida.

Sen. Pat Roberts was expected to skate to re-election. Republicans now are panicked that he could lose to a well-funded independent candidate, harming the GOP's chances of winning Senate control.

One argument holds that migrants arriving in Europe is good for countries with an aging labor force and vast government debt. Steve Inskeep talks to Oliver August of The Economist about this idea.

Some land routes are blocked and boats are scarce. As a result, many refugees who just arrived in the African nation of Djibouti are from Yemen's small professional class.

The Vatican is now under the control of the cardinals who will elect a new leader of the Catholic Church. On Thursday, Pope Benedict gave up his ring, cape and red papal shoes and became pope emeritus.

On August 19, 1991, Russians awoke to looping videos of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake on Soviet state TV — a sure sign something seismic was up.

Zamzama Safi evacuated Afghanistan on the day Kabul fell. With the help of Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, she's starting a new life in Missouri.

With online schooling and missed doctor appointments, vaccinations for things like measles are off by as much as 18% from pre-pandemic levels — raising the prospect of outbreaks of old diseases.

Charlie Watts spent nearly 60 years playing drums for The Rolling Stones. He was known as an unflappable drummer. He died in a hospital in London, surrounded by family.