Newsletter Archive

What’s Hillary really like? We asked journalists who have covered the Clintons for decades about the first female presumptive presidential nominee of a major U.S. political party, who say negative sexist attacks and revelations of her husband’s infidelity “built up a lot of scar tissue.”

Now what? Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the presumptive nominees of their respective parties but it’s a long road to election day. Here’s what both have to do in order to help make their White House dreams come true.

Mexican-American Republicans and other conservative minorities face a tough choice this election cycle. Even though their views on abortion and gay marriage led members of the Burgos family to become registered Republicans, they are very clear on which candidate they won’t vote for.

The Pentagon’s most innovative new technologies were science fiction just a few years ago, but not anymore. Among the fascinating developments military laboratories are working on is squid-inspired camouflage that helps soldiers vanish into the background, disguising themselves even from infrared cameras.

Take that Boko Haram In a show of solidarity against the terror group, Christians and Animists are joining Muslims to break the evening Ramadan fast in Cameroon. The country does not have a history of religious strife and people there plan to keep it that way, with one Catholic elder telling VOA, “Christians and Muslims should live together.”

Russia has a new anti-Islamic State brochure that’s required reading at all public schools, colleges and universities, but IS isn’t the only bad guy in the piece, which also casts U.S. soldiers as murderous villains.

Where can Muslims turn when they have questions about sex? No topic is off-limits for this hijab-wearing French sexologist who takes on sex, Islam and taboos.

VIDEO: Malawi has one of the world’s highest rates of child marriage, with half of all girls wed before their 18th birthday. A secretary turned tribal chief there is proud to say she’s broken up hundreds of child marriages and sent those girls back to where they belong — in school.