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Nic Sakurai prefers the pronoun ‘them.’ The Washington, DC resident doesn’t identify as either male or female. Luckily for Nic, DC is the first — Oregon being the second — in the United States to issue gender neutral driver’s licenses and IDs. After the new policy went into effect June 27, Nic became the first American to receive a gender neutral ‘X’ license.

When hate signs targeting blacks, Muslims and other groups appeared in a neighborhood just outside Washington, the residents responded by outfitting their homes and businesses with anti-hate messages.

Is Charming China wearing thin? Beijing’s been dangling economic aid to win over countries in Southeast Asia that are skeptical about China’s disputed claims in the South China Sea. The charm offensive comes after an international court rejected Beijing’s maritime claims, which put it at odds with much of Southeast Asia.

There aren’t a lot of fish in the lake anymore, but Nigerian fishermen can still make a decent living off what they catch in Lake Chad. But lately, they haven’t been able to catch anything at all after Boko Haram fighters infiltrated their ranks and all fishing activities were stopped. That ban was recently lifted, but there are changes.

QUICK TAKE VIDEO: Some of the same Yazidi women who were victimized by Islamic State are joining the fight to take the terror group down. VOA finds the female fighters in Raqqa, Syria, the de facto ‘capital’ of IS, where they are determined to avenge themselves by having a hand in defeating their enemy.