Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Cardinal Louis Sako is concerned by rising tensions between the United States and Iran, fearful that his country, Iraq, could be caught in the middle of any potential conflict. It has also made a proposed visit by Pope Francis to Iraq next year uncertain, he said.

I wanted to know what it was really like to travel to the moon, but I realized that the only people who knew would not be around much longer.

The move by President Donald Trump's administration was meant to essentially end asylum protections as they now are on the southern border.

For more than three decades, Juscelina Silva Batista's life has followed the rise and fall of the Amazon River.

"People used to live there," said Joana Gomes da Silva, pointing to the cluster of skeletal trunks and branches. "It was a very pretty house. It's underwater now."

The Trump administration is weighing a plan that uses a different definition of inflation to determine who lives in poverty and who does not.