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Bangladesh has signed an agreement with Myanmar to return hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled a recent army crackdown. There's a lot of skepticism about the deal.

CBS News' Jill Schlesinger discusses where to give, how to give and what you can put on your tax forms.

In this high-volume world, do we need more stillness in our lives? We’ll tag along on one man’s quest to find silence in the middle of New York City all the way to Antarctica.

The White House appointed Republican congressman Mick Mulvaney as interim director for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau at the same time that Richard Cordray, its outgoing leader, said Leandra English would serve in the interim. So, who's in charge?

Following a prolonged and violent presidential election that had to be rerun after a court rejected the initial results, Kenya's incumbent president was sworn-in for a second term.

Susan Sontag once called author László Krasznahorkai the "contemporary Hungarian master of apocalypse," but his new book — while disturbing — isn't as hopeless as that might lead you to think.

The private equity firm behind Arby's says it will take Buffalo Wild Wings private and continue to operate it as an independent brand.

Mu Delta Alpha has Greek letters, and its colors are teal, white and peach. But as Nadia Hamdan of KUT reports, this is not a typical sorority.

Is this the end for net neutrality? President Trump’s FCC chief moves to eliminate it. What could your Internet look like when the net isn’t neutral?

Since its creating in 2010 following the financial crisis, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been both ambitious and divisive. Democrats and activists groups say it's a crucial fighter against the power of Wall Street. Republicans say the CFPB is unaccountable and even unconstitutional. This week's standoff over the bureau's interim directors is the most visible case of a battle that has been brewing for years.

The tobacco industry is speaking the truth about cigarettes: 11 years after a federal court forced it to.

White House advisor Ivanka Trump spoke at an entrepreneurship summit in Hyderabad, India. She is co-hosting the annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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Local congregations are once again turning to Charlotte police for security advice, after this month’s mass shooting at a church in Texas. CMPD offered…

David Greene talks with Renae Merle of The Washington Post about a federal judge's decision in favor of the Trump administration's pick to oversee the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

A volcano on the Indonesian island of Bali could be on the verge of more eruptions. The local government called for the evacuation of more than 100,000 people in the danger zone.

The bitcoin value has soared recently and continues to rise as more and more people invest in the currency. NPR's Michel Martin asks business writer Roben Farzad what's behind the sudden skyrocketing value.

North Korean fishing ships continue to wash up on Japanese shores. NPR's Michel Martin talks to Los Angeles TimesBeijing bureau chief Jonathan Kaiman about where these ships are coming from.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Karen Attiah, The Washington Post global opinions editor, about women of color in the #MeToo movement.

The Mnet Asian Music Awards aren't as catholic as its unabbreviated name suggests — rather, the show has evolved into a sort of Trojan horse for the K-pop genre across the continent.